Devotion

  • 🌕🌊✨ THE PISCES LUNAR ECLIPSE: ASTRAEA, THE LAST TO REMAIN ✨🌊🌕

    August 27–28, 2026 — depending upon where you are in the world The Pisces Lunar Eclipse of August 27–28, 2026 occurs on August 27 or August 28 depending upon where we are in the world and our local time zone.… Continue reading

  • 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

    When a Forgotten God Wears the Mask of a Demon 🤍🌿✨

  • We Are Not Asked to Copy the Past 🌿

    There comes a moment in every seeker’s life when a quiet question begins to rise… Can I honor where I come from without becoming a replica of it? Whether we’re exploring our ancestry, our faith, our culture, or the traditions… Continue reading

    We Are Not Asked to Copy the Past 🌿

  • 🪽 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

    🪽 When the Dragonfly Crossed My Threshold

  • 🌑 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

    🌑 At the Water’s Edge: The Pisces New Moon Before the Fire of Aries

  • 🌾 The Field Beyond Right and Wrong

    Meeting One Another in the Ground of Being “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Those words, spoken by the Sufi mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, have echoed through centuries because they point… Continue reading

    🌾 The Field Beyond Right and Wrong

  • When Truth Speaks in Many Tongues

    On the Paradox of the Perennial Philosophy There is a quiet realization that begins to dawn when one studies the mystical threads running through the world’s spiritual traditions. 🤍 Not the institutions.Not the doctrines.Not the theological arguments that divide camps… Continue reading

    When Truth Speaks in Many Tongues

  • When the Cactus Bloomed 🌺🤍🌒

    A meditation on patience, perception, and quiet trust This morning nothing changed — and yet everything did. ✨ The cats wrestled in their usual tumble of fur and tail.The sitar and tabla hummed softly through the room.The rocking chair creaked… Continue reading

    When the Cactus Bloomed 🌺🤍🌒

  • Virgo Lunar Eclipse Blessing 🌙

    Tomorrow’s Virgo lunar eclipse,  conjunct the South Node, feels like a sacred threshing floor. Not a dramatic undoing, but a careful winnowing. Virgo, the devoted keeper of the grain, stands in quiet moonlight separating what has nourished from what has… Continue reading

    Virgo Lunar Eclipse Blessing 🌙

  • Abandoning the Theology of Suffering

    There was a time when I believed that suffering made me sacred.That enduring pain was proof of my devotion.That if I could just love enough, stay long enough, endure quietly enough — something holy would be born from it. But… Continue reading

    Abandoning the Theology of Suffering