In this mid-winter moment, I’m reflecting on the ancient feast of Imbulc. Meaning ‘in the belly’, it is a celebration of the pregnant moment of promise, the coming of new life and the return to the light. It is the the turning of the season toward spring, as yet unmanifest and unborn. In the natural …
It has been quite a year! In my life, that hasn’t taken the shape of a lot of exterior changes, but an onslaught of internal shifts ushered in by health challenges – lessons like patience, perseverance and humility have been my focus of ‘ wisdom study’. The kind of shifts that tend to presage exterior …
In a dream I had recently, I was given a key. Someone handed it to me as an answer to a question. Some of the details have faded, but the gist of it was I needed some help with something and didn’t know how to proceed. I stood there in a questioning state, wondering what …
What is faith? Some use the word to refer to a set of beliefs that they adhere to or live by. Others consider that it is something akin to trust or hope. I find myself leaning into faith so much lately, and, in turn, deepening my understanding of it. For me, faith is not at …
This weekend is a confluence of Holy Holidays, the time of renewal and rising. The word Easter comes from the German ‘Eostre’, the ancient goddess of spring, fertility and beginnings, the freshness and possibility of the new season. Nature tells this story every year, blossoming in all her verdant glory. In this season of resurrection, …
Welcoming a new year is often a time we reflect on where we have been and where we are going…perhaps we even make ‘resolutions’ for the new year, promising ourselves a positive new direction. But that is somewhat different than an intention. If you look at the history of the word intention, you’ll see that …
‘Dawn begins at midnight…’ Faith is often misunderstood by the thinking mind. It isn’t a leap into the unknown necessarily, but a subtle way of seeing in the dark, an inner certainty and trust in our deepest truth. Belief and doubt are of the mind, but faith is of the heart… It is a felt …
For many of us these days, discerning the ‘truth’ among many divisive and contradictory things can be difficult. And how can I know how to recognize my own truth, the voice of my heart and intuition amid the noise of fears or conditioned opinions and habits of mind. Tenderness may be described as the Love …
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“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. “ The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” …
Usually when we speak of patience, there is a sigh or a resigned tone hovering somewhere near. At least that is how it was for me for a lot of my life – patience did not come naturally. Many moons ago, a friend remarked that ‘Patience is the jewel in the crown’. At the time, …