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 | Dec 16, 2021 | earth, ritual, seasons & cycles, song
As we move into the Winter Solstice on December 21st, 2021, I am feeling so grateful for the darkness. Darkness, cover me like a blanket of night, oh cover me lightly.* I feel the growing blanket of night that holds me, our home, the land, the forest in a cozy...
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 | 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 | 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...
