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Among the Well and Loving Ancestors 🌿☀️🕯️
Today is August 26, 2026—my 49th birthday. 🎂 It is also my grandmother Daisy’s remembrance day. She passed away 44 years ago today, on August 26, 1982, my 5th birthday. And it has been 569 days since my mother, Gloria,… Continue reading
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Quaoar — The Song Before Form
Today I encountered the mythology of the dwarf planet Quaoar, and something within me immediately recognized its medicine. Quaoar is not a creator who builds through force or command. He sings. He dances. Creation begins through rhythm, vibration, relationship, and… Continue reading
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When a Forgotten God Wears the Mask of a Demon 🤍🌿✨
There is a quote often attributed to Jung that has been echoing through my thoughts lately… “A god ignored is a demon born.” The first time I encountered it, I didn’t hear it as a statement about external gods or… Continue reading
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🪽 When the Dragonfly Crossed My Threshold
The Sacred Ordinary 🌧️✨ Last night, while thunder rolled across the Midwestern sky and rain danced against the windows, something extraordinary happened. A tiny dragonfly flew into our home. 🪽 Not a large dragonfly gliding effortlessly over a pond, but… Continue reading
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When the Collective Psyche Colonizes the Nervous System
There comes a moment in many inner journeys when a person begins to realize something unsettling: Some of the thoughts, reactions, fears, compulsions, and bodily tensions they once assumed were “just who they are” may actually be inherited adaptations to… Continue reading
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The Bloom and the Seeing
On Painting Perception as a Living Organism There is a part of me that is no longer interested in painting things merely as they appear. Something in me wants to paint the feeling beneath perception itself — the living thread… Continue reading
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Othala and the Conscious Ancestor
Inheritance, Lineage, and the Courage to Choose What Continues There are moments when a symbol does not merely interest us — it recognizes us. I held the rune Othala in my hand, carved into warm wood like something remembered rather… Continue reading
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✨ You in Verse: The Universe Remembering Itself Through You
There are moments when language stops behaving like a tool…and starts behaving like a mirror. Not a mirror that reflects your face—but one that reflects your place within the pattern of everything. This is one of those moments. 🔮 The… Continue reading
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🌑 At the Water’s Edge: The Pisces New Moon Before the Fire of Aries
Every year, just before the astrological new year begins, the sky brings us to a shoreline. Not a dramatic one.Not a storm. But a quiet threshold — the place where water meets fire, where reflection gives way to emergence. This… Continue reading
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🌙 Watching at the Edge of Reflection
Sometimes wisdom doesn’t arrive as a thunderclap. Sometimes it arrives like the surface of water becoming still. I read something recently that has been sitting with me: “When the water grows calm, reflections appear.Mirrored moonlight revealed by the stillness.” Across… Continue reading
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