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Freedom to Rise like Trees

by Katy | Jul 4, 2019 | awakening, body, earth, poetry, practices, relationship, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine | 4 Comments

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),...

Savoring Eairth’s Gift of Summer

by Katy | Jun 21, 2019 | earth, goddess, mindfulness, poetry, practices, seasons & cycles, song, The Feminine | 2 Comments

The People Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other...

trusting uncertainty

by Katy | Jun 6, 2019 | awakening, body, mindfulness, personality, poetry, practices, seasons & cycles, The Feminine | 8 Comments

I trust what this body knows breathing in, breathing out the way home. I trust the ground, which I can stand upon-- the earth that rises to meet my feet and gives gently beneath my weight. And I trust that ground which I cannot stand upon-- the falling away that...

MovingWays

by Katy | May 23, 2019 | body, earth, food, mindfulness, personality, practices, relationship, self-care | 10 Comments

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...

Letting Pattern Keeper Guide

by Katy | Apr 18, 2019 | awakening, creativity, mindfulness, personality, The Feminine | 4 Comments

In preparing for my upcoming SoulCollage Facilitator’s Training, I have been rereading SoulCollage Evolving by Seena Frost. She includes a long list of archetypes that may be guiding our individual lives—Great Mother, Warrior, Creator, Healer, Compassion,...

waves welcome me

by Katy | Apr 4, 2019 | earth, mindfulness, poetry, relationship, The Feminine | 7 Comments

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...

Happy Spring Equinox 2019!

by Katy | Mar 20, 2019 | awakening, creativity, earth, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles | 0 Comments

Spring Equinox is Thursday March 20th at 4:59 pm Central Time. The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love. Every seed has awakened and so has all the animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we,...

nurturing & greeting rituals

by Katy | Mar 8, 2019 | earth, mindfulness, poetry, practices, relationship, ritual, self-care, The Feminine | 0 Comments

Imagine coming into the presence of a baby. (Or, if it's easier, a baby animal.) Eyes round and open, she is awake and alert, expressions flitting across her face. Would you ignore this luminous presence? Or would you take in her precious being...

to love

by Katy | Feb 14, 2019 | body, earth, mindfulness, practices, relationship, ritual, seasons & cycles | 2 Comments

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We are part of everything we see— this is the love that...

Remembering

by Katy | Jan 25, 2019 | body, earth, poetry, seasons & cycles, The Feminine | 0 Comments

Remember by Joy Harjo from She Had Some Horses Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away...

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