Food For Thought

  • 🌕🌊✨ 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

  • 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

  • 🌿🍃 When the Tree Reveals an Empty Skin

    Seeing Transformation Where I First Saw Death This morning, while taking Pepper outside, something unexpected caught my eye. The wind stirred the bark of one of our beautiful pecan trees, and I noticed what looked like hundreds of fuzzy caterpillars… Continue reading

    🌿🍃 When the Tree Reveals an Empty Skin

  • 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

    Quaoar — The Song Before Form

  • 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

  • The Sacredness of What Ends

    May 29, 2026 There is a particular kind of wisdom that arrives when we stop trying to outrun impermanence. Not because we have conquered our fear of loss. Not because grief no longer touches us. But because we begin to… Continue reading

    The Sacredness of What Ends

  • 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

    When the Collective Psyche Colonizes the Nervous System

  • 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

    Othala and the Conscious Ancestor