Grant us mercy. For the first time since I can remember, I didn’t hang a single Halloween decoration this year. I didn’t spend October slathering myself in the macabre and indulging my deep and abiding reverence for all things otherworldly. Halloween, Samhain in particular, is my most sacred time of year. The time when the…
October 2023 has been an incredible, powerful, heartbreaking month. I admit that the struggle to keep going amidst all of the politics and everything going on in the outside world has left me with very low energy. I’ve turned to listening and learning rather than commenting. Prompted by synchronicities, I have reached for stories of…
Hypatie – Hypatia of Alexandria. Here she is, her name emblazoned on a prominent bench in the Place du Panthéon in Paris’ 5th arrondissement. There, with two-hundred other women who are all but unknown in history, she is recognized. This is the way of Hypatia. People bring her up a lot. They tell the same…
Lostness. I’m really into this whole idea of lostness right now. Not loss of purpose or sense or self, but leaving the maps behind and turning up the senses to tune in. Those of you who have followed me for a while know that I travel a lot by instinct and am a big believer…