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Wild Encounters Series #1: What seafoam knows about sticking to our bubbles
Today the ocean rushes and roars in rabid waves, frothy at the mouth. It rants and raves, spitting out its skeletons from the closet - in an attempt for balance, for harmony, laying it all [...]
Words of Bark & Bones: Ritual Inspiration through Nature-Writing
The various shades of devastation in our planetary ecosystems reveal a humanity who's awareness is torn from the web of life. This crucial time which we inhabit asks no less of us than to pick [...]
Halloween Time: 10 Steps from Dog to Wolf
1. Betwixt Dog and Wolf. Enter night, exit light. Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced “sow-win”), an ancient Celtic celebration from October 31st to November 1st, welcomes in the darkest slice of the seasonal pie. If [...]
Happy Fall Equinox: Inviting in gratitude, poise and balance
Dear Ones... I love this thanksgiving day that honors the balancing act between night and day. We are momentarily suspended before slowly slipping into the darkness of winter. At this time of year in the [...]
The Pulsing Heart of Crisis
She dons a black cloak that both allures and terrifies. Dark wings push through the hard crust of her shoulder blades. The shadow cast by her cloak is too thick to reveal her facial features, [...]
Of Fire and Honey: Nature’s Timeless Gifts
Nature’s timeless gifts – like the elements of fire and honey – have featured in rituals since deep time. As humans, we have a long-established relationship to the beast of ritual, dating back to our [...]
My Love Affair with Ceremony
I wasn’t born a ceremonial creature. Actually, during my first encounters with traditional ceremony I remember feeling terribly awkward, like a tourist (a very obvious one at that) in a foreign world. I have [...]
Gathering Around the Fire: Reclaiming Ancestral Gestures
It’s easy to slip into a sense of awe and magic when huddled around a bonfire under the twinkle of stars. We have an ancestral impulse as humans to gather around the fire under [...]
I respectfully acknowledge that I am standing on the unceded traditional territory of the K’òmoks First Nation (Puntledge, E’iksan, & K’omoks).