A Crystalline Hike in a Ancient Sparkling Forest

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Sabien (front) and Wesley posing with the largest valley oak I have ever met at the entry of the Petrified Forest, Calistoga, CA. Does the crystal energy of the Petrified Forest have anything to do with this?

Last week, my grandsons Wesley, Sabien, and I visited the Petrified Forest near Calistoga, CA. We are in what Rudolf Steiner called the crystallization period, that fallow time between January 15 and February 15, when Earth is quiet and most receptive to the energies of the cosmos. Although I had not planned this timing, it… Read more »

Listening to the Cosmos: Crystallization Period

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Cold Winter Light at Sunrise

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 »

Quest for Manitou

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Looking toward the tail of the Great Serpent,         In my own story in Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way, I told a big dream I had as a young adult in which I was introduced to the word manitou. The word was so compelling I began a search to… Read more »