by Katy | Sep 21, 2021 | earth, practices, relationship, ritual, seasons & cycles, song
Happy Autumn Equinox! Autumn Equinox 2021 falls on September 22nd at 12:20 pm PT. It is the balancing point between light and dark, the approximately equal day and night before we tip toward darkness. When I think of balance these days, I think of how out of...
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...
by Katy | Jan 28, 2020 | body, earth, Enneagram, mindfulness, personality, relationship, The Feminine
Image by by Larisa Koshkina on Pixabay “The purpose of life is not to transcend the body, but to embody the transcendent.” ~ The Dalai Lama That’s not what I tried to do most of my life! I tried to leave my imperfect-in-so-many-ways...
by Katy | Jul 4, 2019 | awakening, body, earth, poetry, practices, relationship, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine
From all quarters, life on this precious Eairth is desperately calling for the rising of the rooted Feminine—in both women and men. Eairth* and all her creatures are gasping for breath. We lose between 1 and 300 species every day (low to high estimates),...
by Katy | May 23, 2019 | body, earth, food, mindfulness, personality, practices, relationship, self-care
I recently heard the word “lifeways,” in reference to indigenous ways of living in harmony with the natural world. Something in it really struck me and reignited my desire to live in lifeways, in ways that are nourishing for me and the natural world. Now I’m...
by Katy | Apr 4, 2019 | earth, mindfulness, poetry, relationship, The Feminine
Friend, our closeness is this. Anywhere you put your foot Feel me in the firmness under you. ~ Rumi On vacation at Mar de Jade (Mexico) two weeks ago, my morning meditation was being on the beach with the rising tide of waves. Usually, I was the first...
