Dragonfly Medicine

It is the end of my first weekend apprenticing with the Four Seasons Journey, and when a dragonfly touches me three times, I am paying attention.  Chest, belly, womb, the lightest of contact. Opening Gathering is dynamic and nourishing, but in the lead-up to it, and in the return home, I feel stirred and triggered.  […]

Allow yourself to be good enough…

Journey into the Deep

My husband and father are part of organising a men’s gathering in November, the theme of which is “Journey into the Deep.”  My dad used his experience in the Navy to name and navigate some of the challenges of such a descent – whether it be in the outer world, or into the depths of […]

All that you do is sacred…

Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred. Now, why not consider A lasting truce with yourself and God? Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels To be laid aside When you can finally live with veracity […]

Feeling my way

At my women’s circle – my last day of being with these dear hearts in this particular way – we made masks.  We paired up, taking it in turns to carefully layer plaster bandages over each other’s face.  It was a process of descent, and of birthing ourselves anew. Placing the bandages on my friend’s […]

Leaving Circle

I farewelled some dearly beloved women yesterday.  Not forever and ever. But I left the women’s circle I have been a part of for almost six years.  Years of travelling with these women and witnessing their stories and feelings and bodies, and them witnessing mine. I feel raw today, my heart so open.  An exquisite […]

Falling…

I fell into a deep, dark hole this week. One moment I was happy and at peace, the next I was angst-ridden and sad. And all because I suddenly felt “wrong” about something. On top of that, I’d been rather publically wrong. And the feeling of being wrong, and the feeling of being over-exposed plunged […]

Bliss

One of my teachers me forwarded these words by Pema Chodron at the beginning of the year, and they continue to resonate and ripple through my life. “A few years ago I was overwhelmed by deep anxiety, a fundamental, intense anxiety with no storyline attached. I felt very vulnerable, very afraid and raw. While I […]

Swan Blessing

At the Seven Sisters Festival, I participated in Julia Inglis’s workshop, ‘Femmina Unbound,’ on releasing past life vows.  In meditation, I received this story: Deep in the heart of Mother Mountain, in the home of the Crone, who has a name I can’t remember, I looked into the Well of Memory. She emerged, a young […]

Lost in the woods

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what […]

Corn daughters

  I am dreaming back my sisters Whisper-worn footfalls on the Temple steps Skywalkers Storm dwellers Heavy-breasted cauldron keepers Songweavers Snake sisters Darkmoon dancers Labyrinth builders Star bridgers Fiery-eyed dragon-ryders Wind seekers Shape shifters Corn daughters Wolf women Earth stewards Gentle-handed womb sounders Dream spinners Flame keepers Moon birthers Come home sisters, come home ~Marie […]

Soak up some Rumi

A beehive in my heart

  I love this poem by Antonio Machado, a Spanish poet of the early 20th century:   Last night, as I was sleeping I dreamt – marvelous error! – that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new […]

New Shores