“The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.” ~Joseph Campbell…

“Inanna’s descent… is a story of an initiation process into the mysteries… Inanna shows us the way, and she is the first to sacrifice herself for a deep feminine wisdom…” ~Sylvia Brinton Perera

Artwork: Inanna/Ishtar by …

“You will be teachers for each other. You will come together in circles and speak your truth to each other. The time has come for women to accept their spiritual responsibility for the planet.” ~Sherry Ruth Anderson & Patricia Hopkins 

Talking…

“Sadhana is a Sanskrit word whose root, sadh, means to reclaim that which is divine in us, our power to heal, serve, rejoice, and uplift the spirit… The goal of sadhana is to enable you to recover your natural rhythms and realign your inner life and daily habits with the cycles of the universe.” – Maya Tiwari

Curled up on the couch Wednesday afternoon, I sat reading The Path of Practice, by Maya Tiwari, while…

“The person who might take us out of the ice, who might psychically free us… is not necessarily going to be the one to whom we belong. It may be… another of those magical but fleeting events that again came along when we least expected it, an act of kindness from a passing stranger… 



Whatever it may be, it is a time when [that] spirit, in one way or another, feeds us, pulls us out, shows us the secret passage…” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés

My second year of…

“The familiar life horizon has been outgrown; the old concepts, ideals and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for passing of a threshold is at hand.” – Joseph Campbell

The dream of being a published writer has been with me as long as I can remember. I carried it with me in my Hilroy notebooks in elementary school, it came with me into my creative writing classes in high school, it determined the courses I would take in university, and it even created this…

“The Wise Woman tradition is the oldest tradition on our planet. It focuses on healing through nourishing. It is symbolized by a spiral, the ever-changing movement of life and health. In the Wise Woman tradition, health is defined as flexibility. We build health by nourishing the unique individual in all of her or his wholeness. The foundations of nourishment are simple ritual, compassionate listening, and simple whole foods and herbs.” – Michelle Royce

An ongoing…

"Mostly we run around doing. Are you able to come to a stop in your life, even for one moment? Could it be this moment? What would happen if you did?" - Jon Kabat-Zinn

The sound of rain pouring hard against the windowpane woke me from a deep sleep at 8:00 am this morning – about the time I would normally get up. But the dark, gloominess of the day seemed to urge me back – re-thinking the choice to get up and begin a series of Sunday errands, re-thinking…

“The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage had a very different definition that it does today. Courage originally meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling one’s heart.’” – Brené Brown

A few nights ago, I dreamt of a warrior, wearing a long red cloak and carrying a spear in his hand. He was in the middle of a field, hunting a lioness. The warrior came upon the lioness and eventually restrained and…

"The feminine fire is a primordial, elemental force that is powerful beyond our wildest imaginings." - Teri Degler

A few nights ago, I dreamt that I was at a party filled with people that I hardly knew. Tired from the crowds, I stepped outside for some fresh air under the night sky. When I looked up, I saw a miraculous sight – the full moon was high in the sky, and Venus was orbiting the moon so quickly that I could see the traces of multiple rings circling the moon in…

“Homing… is the instinct to return, to go to the place we remember. It is the ability to find, whether in dark or in daylight, one’s home place… Home is an internal place, a place somewhere in time rather than space, where a woman feels of one piece.” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Two weeks ago, I stood in the summer cottage that has been in our family for four generations and stared at a photograph hanging on the wall. It was taken during my grandmother’s birthday – a…

“Every new place we visit – be it a foreign country, a budding friendship, a child’s birth, or a new job – evokes a new world within us… Life is process, movement and transformation. Try as we may to ‘hold back the dawn,’ change is the only thing we can count on for sure.” – Harriet Lerner

“The English word 'music' comes from the Latin 'musica' and the Greek 'mousike', meaning an art presided over by the Muses. The Muses are nine sister Goddesses in Greek mythology directing song and poetry and the arts and sciences.” – Grace Notes Music Studio

Music has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. With three much older brothers, I listened to artists like Sarah McLachlan, The Police, Enya, The Doors, Lou Reed, and Cindi Lauper well…

“A pause is a suspension of activity, a temporary disengagement when we no longer move toward any goal. It can occur during almost any activity and last for an instant, for hours, or for seasons of life. We may pause by stepping out of daily life for a retreat, to spend time in nature, or to take a sabbatical. We may pause in conversation, letting go of what we're about to say to genuinely listen to and be with the other person. We may pause when we are suddenly delighted or saddened,…