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Summer Solstice 2020: Letting Go into Light
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...
Fires at Beltaine
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...
life-death-life
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...
Embodying the Transcendent
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 body to find a...
Habitual or Ritual?
It’s the New Year, and with the turning of the year, comes an invitation to create some new healthy habits! Putting habits in place means not having to think so hard—we can just do the things we need to do on autopilot. Perhaps you want to jump out of bed and...
Winter Solstice 2019–emerging into light
Winter Solstice occurs this year on Saturday, December 21st, 2019 at 8:19 pm Pacific Time. This is one of the most celebrated turnings of the year in the Northern Hemisphere as it indicates the beginning of the return of the light as Eairth begins to...
Breathing in the Morning
Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know that I am breathing out. I’ve been practicing with one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s breathing gathas* every morning lately. It feels good to have a quiet morning practice that is about connecting with...
presence-full time
Stepping outside with a task in mind, I move with intention toward its completion. Subtly and completely, my perception shifts, and instead of allowing my mind to dictate the doing, my body opens—to the front and sides and back— adding a fullness and a...
the steady center
Cutting Loose by William Stafford Sometimes, from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing a world where you go where you want to. Arbitrary, sound comes. A reminder that a steady center...
Welcoming Fall
Autumn Equinox was last Monday, September 23rd at 12:50 am PT. This is the time when the dark and light hours are approximately even and marks the turning into more darkness as we head toward the Winter Solstice. Why mark this transition at all? In a...
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