Imagining Wholeness

Try for a moment to imagine what it feels like to be a tree.

To be a life form of such solidity, yet able to dance your branches in the wind.

To be able to give a home to so many different creatures.

Imagine how it feels to have your roots sinking into the earth, being fed by the minerals and water there.

Imagine loving the interdependence of that relationship. Loving the stones who dissolve into soil, the other plant beings who do the same. Loving your own roots and leaves because they receive what you need to thrive with such gentle elegance.

Can you imagine that much love in your life?

Can you imagine that much trust? Can you imagine that much wholeness and thriving?

Oh, dearest one.  We believe you can. Perhaps not in this heartbeat moment. Perhaps you will find it in the next…or the next…but you will find it.

This we know.

 
Two Sycamore trees

 

How it felt to be danced by the sea…

One of the ways I care for myself is to spend time in retreat. I rest, go within, nourish my spirit and open to an infusion of new energy and ideas. Being danced by the sea… This past weekend I spent time in retreat by the sea. And, although the full moon was mostly hidden… Continue Reading

Recovering the Sacred Feminine

Without Making Men the Enemy My morning meditation hijacked this post. I’d planned to write something completely different today. Life, as they say, had other plans, though. While unwinding through the sound and movement released by my wild wisdom, some words tumbled urgently into my mind/heart, “It’s time. We need your full focus and attention… Continue Reading

Violets and Sage

Wild beauty from my garden…  … Continue Reading

The Sacred Partnership of Woman and Earth

“In these moments I felt innocent and wild, privy to secrets and gifts exchanged only in nature. I was the tree, split open by change. I was the flood, bursting through grief. I was the rainbow at night, dancing in darkness. Hands on the earth, I closed my eyes and remembered where the source of… Continue Reading

For Earth Day 2012

For Earth Day 2012

I first published this request from Gaia, our living planet, on Feb. 7, 2011. She asked that I offer it again, today. “Dear ones, with deep love and reverence I ask you to share this with everyone you know. (I know you already know this in your bones.) I am not a resource. My trees… Continue Reading

Afternoon walk

Afternoon walk

Where I’ve been….                             Where I’m going…                             Trout Lily friends along the way…… Continue Reading

Raising our fiercely compassionate feminine

Raising our fiercely compassionate feminine

Standing in the farmers market, I experienced something delightfully perplexing. A woman approached me and told me she thought my hair was beautiful. It was the second time in a week I’d heard that, and the 4th or 5th time that month. I was kind-of flummoxed. My hair is pretty unremarkable. Longish, brown, grey and… Continue Reading

Losing Your North

Have you ever had one of those moments when you feel like you’ve lost your north? You know, when everything that once made sense just doesn’t anymore. It seems like you’re suddenly adrift, wondering if a weird cosmic wobble caused all the planets to go retrograde, or somehow you slipped into a pointless alternate reality…. Continue Reading

Spring Rising

Spring Rising

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