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🌿 The Tree of Life and the Nervous System
Symbol, Structure, and the Courage to Stay Accurate There’s an image that keeps circulating lately—one that overlays the Tree of Life onto the human brain, often the cerebellum or the nervous system. It’s visually compelling. Familiar. Almost comforting. And yet…… Continue reading
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🔥 Sacred Fire vs. Performative Fire
Discerning the Flame in an Initiatory Time There is a great deal of talk right now about fire—about desire, will, embodiment, courage, initiation. Much of it is sincere. Some of it is necessary. And some of it, if we’re honest,… Continue reading
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From Covenant to Consciousness
On the Evolution of the Divine Image ✨📜🕯️ There comes a moment on any sincere spiritual path when the old questions no longer suffice. Not “What does this text say?”But “What kind of consciousness does this text arise from?”And perhaps… Continue reading
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🌅 A Blessing for the First Day
New Year’s Day is not loud. It doesn’t demand resolutions or declarations or a polished vision board. It arrives softly, like light finding the edge of a window. It asks only that we notice we are still here. Today is… Continue reading
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🎆 New Year’s Eve: Between the Last Spark and the First Breath
There is something tender about New Year’s Eve.Not loud—despite the fireworks.Not frantic—despite the countdowns. It’s a liminal night. A pause between exhale and inhale.The year behind us still humming in our bones, the year ahead not yet asking anything of… Continue reading
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January 2026 Transits
January 2026 Transits — A Month to Observe, Not Rush 🌑✨ January opens the year with a kind of quiet insistence.Not loud. Not dramatic for drama’s sake.But layered. Sequential. Intentional. What you’ll notice immediately in these transits is density.Conjunctions stacking.… Continue reading
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🌿 Smoke, Science, and Sacred Responsibility
Rethinking Smudging in an Ethical, Earth-Honoring Way For many of us, smoke has always felt like a threshold—a visible prayer, a breath made tangible, a way of clearing not just a room, but a field. Smudging, most commonly associated with… Continue reading
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We Survived the Year. That Counts as a Miracle.
🕯️ Sacred Snark Sunday: End of the Year Edition If you are reading this, congratulations.You made it. Not thriving, not ascending, not manifesting your highest timeline with perfect posture — just here. Breathing. Still listening. Still feeling. Still questioning. And… Continue reading
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When the Moon Goes Still: The Evolutionary Meaning of the Void-of-Course Moon
🌙 There’s a rhythm beneath the celestial wheel that’s subtle but powerful — a rhythm felt in the body, in the psyche, and in the deep, unworded places where the soul tends its fires. The Void-of-Course Moon (VOC) is one… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors: Hannah Arendt — Thinking as a Moral Act 🕯️🧠
Some figures in history don’t descend into the depths of the psyche through visions or dreams — they arrive there through thinking. Not abstract thinking. Not cleverness. But the kind of thinking that refuses numbness, refuses slogans, and refuses the… Continue reading
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