My richest memories of Winter Solstice and the holiday season are of a nature oriented tradition I adapted from a Waldorf School ceremony for.  It became a favorite annual activity, shared with other families, many of whom had different religious or cultural traditions for this season. Our older children loved […]

All forms of life have divine intelligence; some more obviously than others.  For example humans and dolphins, although sometimes human intelligence may be questionable!  Here are stories of actual encounters with intelligence in unexpected places and how energy work can raise consciousness. When my daughter as a small child asked […]

Walking through a summer afternoon and observing the butterflies sunning their selves and flitting about being lovely, I was reminded that they began lives as caterpillars. Essentially wormlike, creeping along, eating and doing damage to plants, caterpillars are hardly an enlightened seeming creature.  Later, as butterflies these same creatures provide […]

You are so much more than you can imagine yourself to be.  Every moment of your day and every circumstance you encounter give you the opportunity to know yourself on a deeper level.   It’s important that you make room for the authentic you to be uncovered.  There are many self- […]

I awoke one morning, with a cry of longing in my heart for Grandmother Twyla – a name I didn’t recall ever having heard before.  This was more than two decades ago, a time of tremendous change for me which challenged me to my core.  That cry sent me on […]

I was kept awake by a vision the other night which came to me every time I closed my eyes to sleep.  It was the flooding of a great river.  I saw it rising, breaking its banks and tearing up trees.  It was powerful and scary, dark and roiling and […]

You probably already read auras, although you may not think of it that way.  If you pick up on people’s energy, can sense trouble in a room, or a true unconditional welcome from another, you are reading auras.  Developing this gift takes attention and frequent practice to learn to trust […]

There’s a right way to live in each moment A perfect thing to do or to say Different from each moment gone before But beyond the moment at hand We don’t know what’s in store   The best laid plans Often go astray The perfect plan of life Is revealed […]

At the core of each life there is a center of eternal spirit, safe, whole and unbreakable, wise, purposeful and enlightened.  As human beings though, we tend to look for enlightenment and security in the world around us.  This may be because in our experience it seems like what we […]

When the time comes to step up to a new opportunity but you just can’t find the courage to make the step, what can you do? If you know innately that this is something you can be good at, then you need to discover what it is that holds you […]

There are indigenous medicine traditions which all cultures have in common and which we can benefit by including in our lives.  Of these traditions, my favorite is power animals.   Power animals are unconditionally loving and enlightened spirit guides who come in animal form to strengthen us at the level […]

Intuition is the presence of truth and wisdom that exists within each of us.  It is our inner divine spirit using the gifts present within our body and soul to tell us things that we could not figure out by simply thinking something through.  A well developed intuition is a […]