by Katy | Dec 16, 2020 | earth, mindfulness, personality, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles
We live in a culture of polarities that encourages us to construct polarities in our lives: good vs. bad, what I like vs. what I dislike, warm vs. cold, comfortable vs. uncomfortable, relaxation vs. work, etc. One polarity that arises this time of year is...
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 | May 1, 2020 | earth, mindfulness, practices, seasons & cycles
Today, May 1st, Beltaine or Beltane, is a cross-quarter day that marks the approximate halfway point between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice. It is a time of celebrating the growing light. Tradition has it that great bonfires were lit on hills to bring the...
by Katy | Mar 4, 2020 | earth, practices, relationship, seasons & cycles, The Feminine
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Life-Death-Life cycle recently. That’s how Clarissa Pinkola Estes names it in Women Who Run with the Wolves—this ever-regenerating, ever-cycling pattern that permeates the universe and all existence. It is the...
