What is it that we do when we “awaken” a sacred site? What, exactly, are we awakening? This is a question whose answer grows within the cells of my body as I live it, a question reawakened after visiting the Serpent Mound in Ohio. While it is true that all land is sacred, some land… Read more »
Sacred Sites: The Great Serpent Mound, Part Three
Sacred Sites: The Great Serpent Mound, Part Three Paths to sacred sites are often circuitous. This was especially true for us the first day we approached The Great Serpent Mound of southern Ohio. Five of us women who had done spiritual work together gathered for most of a week in September 2012, with the stated intention… Read more »
Listening to the Cosmos: Crystallization Period
Listening to the Cosmos: Crystallization Period Beginning the 15th of January, we enter what, in Biodynamic Agriculture, is called the Crystallization Period. In this time of fallowness the earth is quiet and most receptive to the energies of the cosmos, a time receptiveness is critically important. For the ground of my psyche, it… Read more »
Winter Solstice Eve: On Suffering
Winter Solstice Eve: On Suffering Many years ago my dear friend Harold worked by day in the Cambodian refugee camps doing AIDS education. These camps were places of horror. At night the Khmer Rouge would raid the camp of young boys and men, killing or recruiting. Harold had a friend, a Buddhist nun, who also… Read more »
A Christmas Story: The Salvation Army and Paying It Forward
This time of year I remember an experience I had many years ago as a teenager. My sister Judy, our Greek American Fields Service sister Charoula, and I were visiting our Uncle Rufus in Chicago. We lived in central Illinois, so the city was an especially exciting if confounding place for us, and the… Read more »
Book Review: Unplugging the Patriarchy: A Mystical Journey into the Heart of a New Age, by Lucia René
My spiritual teacher Norma T. would describe Lucia René’s Unplugging the Patriarchy: A Mystical Journey into the Heart of a New Age, as a teaching novel. René herself calls it “fictionalized memoir,” part truth, part fiction. The storyline begins with the protagonist at loose ends, having lost both of her parents, and within a week of her father’s death,… Read more »
November 28: Lunar Eclipse
Heart Chakra, Anahata, from Wikipedia November 28: Lunar Eclipse If it were not storming this early morning, those of us in western United States would be able to view the lunar eclipse. It is said that this eclipse brings a showering of Divine Light, preparation and cleansing for the period of time of the Winter… Read more »
Goodreads Book Giveaway: Goatsong
Goodreads Book Giveaway: Goatsong Still a few hours for the Goodreads Giveawy of Goatsong! Just click to enter by signing up! Goodreads Book Giveaway Goatsong by Patricia Damery Giveaway ends November 28, 2012. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
When the Story Gets Interesting…
Writing, like analysis, can be a process of re-creation. Sign from garden of Dominican Sisters of Peace, Columbus, OH. When the Story Gets Interesting… Last month at the Donor Event of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, three authors read from their contributions to Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way. Chie Lee,… Read more »
Finding the Middle: Traveling by Amtrak and the Election
Rain storm in Wisconsin as viewed from train. Last night we watched the dark waters of the Mississippi River, the banks no more than 50 feet from our window, as our train snaked up the Minnesota border to Winona. We turned off the lights in our roomette to better see the dark movements,… Read more »
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