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When the Wheel Stands Still: Death, Despair, and the Starry Kin
There comes a moment in the turning of the year when the wheel itself seems to halt, pausing in breathless stillness. Time hangs heavy....


To Rise Like a Tide – On Resisting Hopelessness in a Time of Unmaking
It would be tempting, these days, to curl into the dark – to say the work is too great, the damage too deep, the hunger too vast. That we...


The Arc of Fire, and 'Emotional Kintsugi'
In Ireland, we say that story is medicine. Our indigenous oral traditions do not treat story as unburdening, but as offering – something...


Reclaiming Enchantment After Exhaustion
There are times when the marrow of life feels spent. We arrive at the edge of our own strength and find only hollowness echoing back....


Hibernation
It’s that time of year when the call of winter invites us to retreat here in the northern hemisphere. To rest deeply into the boundless...


Fear and the Earth Element within
Fear is one of the themes that destabilizes our root, the earth element within us. Here are a few powerful words to consider on fear, and...


The Long Night
The ‘Long Night’ feels true of our wider collective experience. Layers of underworlds. Journeys through grief, fear, loss and sickness...


The Edge You Carry With You
You know so very well the edge of darkness you have always carried with you. You know so very well, your childhood legacy: that...


On Being (T)here
In moments of transition and liminality, the movement from 'here' to 'there' can be washed away where only pure wonder remains. The...


On Co-Weaving Community and Mental WellBEing
Throughout this year I've been reflecting on my practice of weaving containers, energetic architecture, and curating space, and given the...


On Disintegration
At times, our reference points will fall away, revealing a shimmering, pregnant, endarkened void. What we were so clear about just days...


A Deep Winter Prayer (of Release)
I release my partner from the obligation to complete me. I release my parents from the feeling they failed with me. I release my children...


On the Philosopher's Stone
'There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.' ~ Jalāl...


On the Gift of Wholeness
This time of the year can be difficult for many, opening a portal into feelings and memories of deep loneliness, shame, sadness, and...


On the Bedrock of BEing
It’s compassionate and also merciful to step back and acknowledge how much we’ve been through with this pandemic. Just to be alive as a...


On Shadowlands
We all have aspects or ourselves that we’ll do just about anything to avoid ~ our deep fear of intimacy, unacknowledged narcissism,...


On Integration
Just because we 'have' an experience does not mean it is 'integrated' and metabolized. Just as the belly can experience leaky gut,...


On Earthing
The next time you notice you’ve turned against yourself, tangled in a looping storyline about how you’ve failed, how you’re not enough,...


On Dissolution
In times of liminality and transition, grief begins to emerge from the shadowlands. But to even begin to touch it can break us open and...


On Point Zero
On a conscious level of course we very genuinely want to heal and fully step into a life of deep intimacy, creativity, and aliveness....