Virgo Lunar Cycle: Wilderness Solo
I’m freshly returned from the Wilderness Solo gathering that is the ‘peak’, you could say, of the Four Seasons Journey. All our ceremonies, reflecting, sharing and unpacking together throughout the year lead us to this time of deep communion with the Land, this deep remembering that we are in a constant conversation with Nature, […]
Leo Lunar Cycle: Welcoming Our Rejected Selves
Well, we’re coming to the end of this relatively rare triple-whammy of an eclipse period, with this New Moon. Here’s how it all went down: 1. New Moon and Solar Eclipse at 20° Cancer on 12th/13th July 2. Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse at 4° Aquarius on 27th/28th July 3. and now this New Moon […]
Insight & Clarity for 2018
I love the time-out-of-time quality of this week between Christmas and New Years – how all the regular rhythms fall away and the outside world slows down a little. My phone’s been off, the emails are piling up, and I count that as a good thing. Feels like prime time for Dreaming… Don’t know about […]
Cancer Lunar Cycle: Elk Medicine Drum
While the last lunar cycle was a wild ride, this cycle has played out in a concrete and almost ‘simple’ way, in the form of making an elk medicine drum. Here’s how I’ve used the lunar map to frame my experience. New Moon: what is new? I speak and move my New Moon prayers […]
Becoming Ms November!
Sending First-Quarter Moon greetings today! I wanted to let you know that my friend Michaela, of Empress, Crow & Rabbit, has created a beautiful Lunar Calendar for July-December 2017, and I happen to be Ms November! And while it’s a definite ‘edge’ to be seen in this way, I feel delighted to be part of […]
Quote: A Simple Act of Faith
“There is something that endures beyond us, some spirit, some essence, some eternal thing that can never be created in a lab or observed through a microscope. If we ever stop to think about it, every step we take in life is a colossal leap of faith that leaves the rational mind reeling: that we […]
Dark Moon in Pisces: Old Grief Arising
Journeying with the Moon… Some painful pieces of the last year are arising, still present to be grieved. I felt heavier and heavier throughout the day, ending up crying on the couch in the evening. This cycle I’ve been paying attention to whether I’m more emotional – and in need of greater emotional support – […]
Crescent Moon in Taurus: Choose Love!
One of my highlights from Seven Sisters Festival this was listening to Jane Hardwicke Collings and Rhea Dempsey sharing the floor in their compelling workshop, Birth Today (aka Birthing in a Dystopia)! Rhea, who oriented me on my path one night, thirteen years ago, addressing the topic of pain in labour. Electric words she spoke […]
New Moon in Aquarius: Rainbow Serpent
(Photo: ready to play! with Nymh, Sequoia and Jane!) Fittingly for an Aquarian New Moon, I found myself immersed in a colourful tribe at Rainbow Serpent Festival (along with 10,000+ other people), living for a short time an alternative, playful reality! The School of Shamanic Womancraft was hosting a Woman’s Space each morning, along with a ‘Healing […]
Dark Moon in Capricorn: Struggling to Rest
We’ve travelled for a month through this last lunar cycle, with its New Moon in Capricorn on the 29th of December through to the New Moon in Aquarius on the 28th January. How has it been for you? What messages have you received? I found each week quite distinct in energy. New/crescent moon: I spent New Year’s […]
Soul Gardening
This is a photo of our garden, one from eight years ago, one from yesterday. It really is becoming a lush oasis of green, and of food! The fruit trees we planted six years ago are producing more and more, and the vege patch my man tends gets bigger and bigger! It is very satisfying to […]
midsummer magic
today i am leaking everywhere spilling down my legs on the floor under my nails day 2 bleeding and my visceral experience is an uncontained pleasure ideas spill out of me ripe, proliferous conversations are fertile ground as i drip fullness under this full moon this bright solstice sky an inner ferment it’s possible i […]
From Midwife to Priestess
I wanted to share the story of changing the name of my work from Midwife of the Soul to Priestess Your life, and how this shift arose. A name change, but more than that, the birth of a whole new identity. Seeded in the Void at the end of last year, Midwinter in Canada, when the […]
Licata quote
“Today may not be a day for answers, but let your heart break open to the vastness of the question.” ~ Matt Licata
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 6
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} I remember another hug from Nymh @waysofthewild, the first one, when I turned up to my first gathering and […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 5
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} We Quest, kneeling at the ‘Altar of Wild,’ as Nymh so gracefully puts it. Three days […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 4
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} In stillness we listen to the story, whispered and woven, of the first descent. The […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 3
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} The first thing we do in the Four Seasons Journey is make a drum, ancient […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 2
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} We sit in circle, lighting candles, holding hands, grounding ourselves, feeling the energy flowing around […]
Four Seasons Journey: Gift 1
{Inspired by Women’s Health Week I wanted to share some of the gifts I’ve received from participating in the Four Seasons Journey – one of the best things I’ve ever done in terms of my health and power as a woman!} From the first time I met Jane Hardwicke Collings, I knew her as Teacher. To […]
Follow that thing…
“Do not go by revelation or tradition, do not go by rumor, or the sacred scriptures, do not go by hearsay or mere logic, do not go by bias towards a notion or by another person’s seeming ability and do not go by the idea ‘He is our teacher’. But when you yourself know that […]