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As protective habits and behaviours gradually form around our vulnerabilities, they restrict not only experiences of perceived brokenness, but expressions of our wild wholeness as well… Homemade eco-printed oracle cards, time to pull one in the aftermath of a pained and tearful morning… Yet another invitation to bare my Aphrodite wound to the world, knowing […]
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day, any of you who have kids! Good on you for all your care, tending, authenticity and visioning for your children and the world they are inheriting, even though this work is largely unsung and greatly misunderstood. And blessings on our mothers for birthing us! I have historically found it hard to get […]
Altar to Aphrodite
I was compelled last night to create an altar to Aphrodite, one of my least dominant goddess archetypes… She whose energy I desire to invoke more of in my life, to bring her to light within me. She is actually very present, but rarely easeful in this body… I was dismayed I didn’t have more items […]
Oracle cards
Made my own oracle cards last night, on paper I eco-printed seasonally throughout last year – helpful anchors for my own hard-won truth or the wisdom passed on to me by others. They remind me of the shamanic reality I want to keep attuning to… fundamentally, love over fear…
Sacred Sage
Sacred sage picked at the exact moment of the New Moon and solar eclipse, with great thanks for all its cleansing, re-setting power!
New School
My daughter is heading to high school this year – a massive shift after choosing to homeschool for the whole of her primary school life! It’s a decision both sudden and not sudden. Sudden in the sense that she raised it on Friday, I rolled with it, my man came along for the ride in […]
The New Way: LOVE
I am increasingly witnessing a tussle in our culture between love and fear, in almost every arena of life. Mainstream/patriarchal culture is fear- and control-based, and this Old Way is drawing us all towards ecocide – obviously not a sustainable way to live. Another possibility is to live a New Way: – trusting the process […]
Dissonant Art
What happens when we create something we don’t like? What can our pieces teach us about the aspects of ourselves that feel “not okay, not worthy, not beautiful”? And is there room to bring these parts of us into the open? Jacqui & I explore these questions through the lens of eco-printing in the context of sacred […]
Hera: Queen of Heaven
My friend Sarah just wrote a beautiful piece on Hera, the ancient Greek goddess, also known as Juno within the Roman pantheon, and I felt called to add to the conversation about this powerful character! When I first started exploring goddess archetypes, Hera was one of my least favourites! The shrew wife with a cheating husband […]
Eco-printed Oracles
Beautiful collaboratively-created oracle cards, from yesterday’s eco-printing workshop. We slowed down enough to hear this wisdom coming through the leaves and the process, and it’s rippling out to you!
Lizard Dreaming
We greeted the New Moon today with a drum journey, the kids and I. They travelled down, down, down to explore and meet with animals, perhaps even their power animal. Laying outside, the sounds of the birds all around. I sat my drum on the bench in the sun, the hide warming to the touch. […]
Response-ability
The other night my man asked what ‘success’ means to me. His question dovetailed seamlessly with another question I am currently holding: what is genuinely valuable to learn? If school is so much ‘busy-work’ – with kids often so bored cos they know the work they do there is largely meaningless and almost totally disconnected […]
Living Freedom: Elaine Norling
This is an amazing visual history of homebirth in Australia, told through the lens of the lifelong activism efforts of Elaine Norling, consumer advocate and homebirth campaigner since 1969, as presented at the 30th Homebirth Australia conference held in Melbourne earlier this year. A good reminder of where we’ve come from, what we’ve gained, what […]
quote: bundle as the self
the bundle as the self gestating with us
Wombat Medicine
On the weekend I came across a wombat that had been hit by a car, sadly common around here. But this was a mama wombat, and her baby was also dead. Its tiny, pale, beautiful body was tucked under one of her front legs – perhaps the work of someone who’d found them earlier. The […]
Eroding the feminine
A couple of weeks ago, at the potent eclipse Full Moon, I hand-wrote a letter giving great thanks for such a rich harvest, as I looked back over the last six months. Emailed it out to family and friends, […]
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Lunar Planner
Here’s a way to use the lunar cycle to set intentions, grow these, and let them go – the powerful rhythm of all cycles of nature. Many thanks to Ezzie Spencer of Lunar Abundance for making this available. Also, in a similar vein, here’s a link to a free lunar planner (for Northern & Southern hemispheres) from […]
Old Books
It’s the final day of this intense Mercury retrograde, and I’m feeling the big shift in energy! How about you? Suddenly my doubts and negative self-talk have dropped away. There’s an urgent need to get some of my projects off the ground, and there’s been a flurry of social activity and organising! How ‘s your […]
Mapping my process
Feeling the need to capture some of the insights and connections flowing in over the last three weeks and longer (Mercury retrograde heightening current themes and communication)! Am slowly covering the toilet wall with a progression of realisations. Figure I might as well be mindful in the loo! How are you incorporating the messages you’re […]
Facing oneself
Potent musings from Pema Chodron for this pre-Mercury-Retrograde period: “If there are whole parts of yourself that you are always running from, that you even feel justified in running from, then you’re going to run from anything that brings you into contact with your feelings of insecurity. And have you noticed how often these parts […]