Here, you’ll find practices and tips to enhance your well-being, tales from my shamanic work, and magical visits to my micro-farm, each post written to inspire, educate, and uplift. I’m so glad you’re here!
The phrase “Be not afraid” appears in the Bible 365 times, enough that we can be encouraged once a day for a year. How do you deal with the overwhelm of a world gripped by chaos and major system breakdowns? When the big world is falling apart, start transforming yourself and your own world. I want to share how shamanic self-transformation can help you create the new world we all need, starting right where you are. You are the medicine.
Neko Case, the alt-country singer and songwriter, composed a song called “The Tigers Have Spoken” which tells the tale of a caged tiger that almost broke my heart into a zillion fragments. The song describes a tiger kept in captivity that slowly goes insane from its confinement, becoming so enraged and aggressive that it cannot be handled anymore.
I have always responded with searing heartbreak, with intense soul-pain, when confronted with any individual, animal, or plant that is enslaved, caged, or in pain. I feel that pain. As a child, I remember saving the baby bunny or the baby bird. I remember moving the oak sapling that would have been mowed down and replanting it elsewhere, where it grew to over 20 feet tall. I am unable to stomach the idea of souls in chains or in cages. I seem to have inherited this from my mother. My mother was always an animal person to her core.
Over a long journey, as I healed, I realized that my real power and strength came from my true self, myself as a woman. And I started to blossom and to reveal myself to the world. I became a devotee of the goddess in all her forms, and I threw away all of my pants! To this day, I don’t even own a single pair of pants. I express myself through dresses and make-up and longer hair!
One of the lessons I learned early in life — and thank goodness — is that you have to be willing to follow the call of your own heart and soul, even if you have to disappoint others to do so.
One of the lessons I learned early in life — and thank goodness — is that you have to be willing to follow the call of your own heart and soul, even if you have to disappoint others to do so.
One of the lessons I learned early in life — and thank goodness — is that you have to be willing to follow the call of your own heart and soul, even if you have to disappoint others to do so.
