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 | Jun 19, 2021 | body, earth, mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles, self-care, song, The Feminine
Here, in the Northern Hemisphere, on June 20th at 8:32 pm PT, we are at Summer Solstice again. Eairth* has awoken in flowers and flourishing plants and new leaves. She is bearing fruit and food and warmer days filled with light… Here we are with the...
by Katy | Mar 18, 2021 | earth, mindfulness, seasons & cycles
Spring Equinox, falling on March 20th at 2:37 am PT in 2021, is a great time to revisit what it means to balance. It marks a time when the days and nights are approximately equal, in the midst of the changing from dark to growing light. Equinox Round by...
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 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...
