These aren't the easiest of times. Everyone’s cup is filled to the rim, and living with daily stressors can really wear you down. Paradoxically, stress lowers our tolerance for handling the complexity it brings into our life; science says stress chemicals hi-jack our brains, and narrowing our ability to think we literally become dumber. Under stress, we become reactionary and … [Read more...]
Full Moons can be busy times--especially during a lunar eclipse. If you’re feeling tired and a bit off balance, you may be suffering from “energy retention,” a condition much like water retention (which is also common during Full Moons). With energy retention, the currents or flows in your field seem to expand without actually going anywhere. It can feel like you just ate a big … [Read more...]
As we turned the corners of the new year, I returned home after living in Stockholm, Sweden for four months. I am finally where I belong. Home. In Northern California where the air has an otherworldly perfume of damp peaty musk and fresh green. Home. As David Byrne of the Talking Heads once sang, "...where I want to be" And as poet David Whyte once wrote, "...where I want to … [Read more...]
Following last month's Harvest Moon is the bright and beautiful Full Hunter’s Moon. The harvest is already done. The fields are chaff and stubble, the deer are fattened and slower afoot; the foxes and other small animals that go gleaning in the sweet rubble are easily observed. Indeed, this Moon illuminates a hunter’s paradise, and our ancestors anticipated no other Full Moon … [Read more...]
I was chatting recently with a friend who told me that she has been accused of being “too independent.” As I’m a bit that way inclined myself, we laughed together and tried to wrap our minds around the concept of “too much” independence. Do you find the give and take of human relationships challenging? When I got married, the biggest adjustment I faced was getting used to … [Read more...]
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