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An Ancestral Practice for Winter Visioning
The most profound wisdom arrives in moments of stillness. That’s why the dark days surrounding the winter solstice are such a rich time for visioning. And it’s also why the holiday hubbub can feel so challenging. This time of the year, it seems like every molecule within wants to slow down. Because inside us is a deep ancestral tug,…
Connect with your Past Life Guides
Who you’ve been holds great wisdom. When we need answers, we usually look outside of ourselves for help. And yet, each of us carries a memory bank of profound inner knowing and experience. What if, every time we thought we needed to seek a psychic or pick a tarot card all we actually needed was to contact our…
Are you a Psychopomp?
I remember the first time I had one of the dreams. My older friend, who was like an auntie to me, had died. I was a teenager and deeply distraught so I drove to my best friend’s house to sleep over with her that night. I woke at dawn the next morning, holding my eyes open…
What is your Second Song?
I’m sitting in a dark room nursing my daughter. It’s midday or it’s midnight and I’m here in the room because it’s the only place where she’ll settle. I’m here because I need to be. I’m here because there’s nowhere else to be. I’m here in a dark room singing the second song of my life….
Why the Earth Created You
I’ve always known I was sensitive. As a kid I often felt deeply affected by things others seemed to take in stride. Like sleepovers. I still remember how hard they were. Long after everyone else had fallen sleep I would be lying immobile in my sleeping bag, staring at the ceiling and praying for dawn,…
What it Means to be “a part” of the Earth
You hear people say it often— humans are a part of nature. As lonely or outcast as we might sometimes feel, we aren’t separate from the living world. We are nature, a creation of the Earth just as truly as the upright oak or the moss-covered boulders of the mountains. But what does it actually mean to be “a part”…
The Earth Already Forgives You
There’s a question I get asked often— and every time someone asks it, I know I’m connecting with a kindred spirit… In a time when humanity has caused so much destruction, how do you deal with the guilt of being human? I love when people ask me this, because I have an opportunity to give them the…
How to Embrace your Destiny
I was laying on my back with the windows open to the summer breeze. The coolness of the evening was just beginning to settle into the crease of the mountain and the scent of basil was still on my hands from the garden. It was one of those moments— quiet, complete, and rare— when you…
