by Katy | Jun 20, 2022 | awakening, body, earth, mindfulness, practices, relationship, ritual, seasons & cycles, The Feminine
Happy Summer Solstice! Summer Solstice falls on the 21st of June, 2022 at 2:13 am Pacific Time. By honoring the solstice, we are participating in earth time, marking the changing of the seasons not by imposed, human-made calendar time, but by following the...
by Katy | Mar 19, 2022 | awakening, earth, mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles
Spring Equinox, the cusp of even more light. No matter how dark it is—the war in Ukraine, the fight for democracy in the US, the pandemic that never ends, the climate catastrophe… the living earth reminds us that there is always this: And this:...
by Katy | Sep 21, 2020 | awakening, earth, seasons & cycles, song
Autumn Equinox occurs on Tuesday, September 22nd at 6:30 am Pacific Time this year. While Solstices give us an experience of full-on light or dark, Equinoxes invite us into a threshold of changing light. Because of this, there is an uncertainty, a not knowing...
by Katy | Sep 17, 2020 | awakening, earth, Enneagram, mindfulness, practices, The Feminine
This blogpost was originally a sermon for a service I put together for Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on August 16, 2020. You can watch the whole service and find the readings that accompany it. When Heidi (the musician I was working with) and I were...
by Katy | Jun 20, 2020 | awakening, earth, mindfulness, practices, seasons & cycles
It’s Summer! We are celebrating more light, more warmth, and more time outside (for those of us with Covid restrictions lifting). But really, the Summer Solstice (June 20, 2:43 pm PT) represents not only a time of peak light, but the beginning of the turn...
by Katy | Dec 20, 2019 | awakening, earth, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles
Winter Solstice occurs this year on Saturday, December 21st, 2019 at 8:19 pm Pacific Time. This is one of the most celebrated turnings of the year in the Northern Hemisphere as it indicates the beginning of the return of the light as Eairth begins to...