grief

  • When the Ashes Come Home

    🌒🕯️ There are moments that don’t arrive with fireworks or fanfare.They arrive quietly.Almost casually.And yet everything inside you knows: this is exact. Yesterday, I was told I can prepare to receive my mother Gloria’s ashes. Almost a year later. 49… Continue reading

    When the Ashes Come Home

  • 🌑 When Healing Changes the Field âś¨

    For a long time, I believed certain patterns in my life were simply fate. The same relational dynamics.The same sense of obligation.The same quiet pressure to manage, appease, and anticipate others — even when it cost me my own center.… Continue reading

  • 🌑 Mythic Mondays: Hekate at the Crossroads — When Choice Becomes Consecration

    There are moments when life does not ask us what we want.It simply places us at a crossroads and waits to see whether we will recognize it as sacred. Tonight, the myth that steps forward is Hekate—not as spectacle, not… Continue reading

    🌑 Mythic Mondays: Hekate at the Crossroads — When Choice Becomes Consecration

  • 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

    From Covenant to Consciousness

  • ✨ The Hopes and Fears of All the Years âś¨

    (Listening more closely this Christmas) I was listening to old Christmas songs today—the oldies, the ones that have lived in the background of a thousand Decembers—and something stopped me cold. A single line. From O Little Town of Bethlehem: “The… Continue reading

    ✨ The Hopes and Fears of All the Years âś¨

  • ✨🕯️🌒 Beyond and Becoming: Transcendence & Transformation

    There are moments on the path when the language itself asks to be listened to more carefully.Not because the words are complicated—but because they are alive. Two such words that often get braided together in spiritual spaces are transcendence and… Continue reading

    ✨🕯️🌒 Beyond and Becoming: Transcendence & Transformation

  • The Seven Tears of the Soul

    Al-Ghazali, Consciousness, and the Initiatory Language of Weeping There are many forms of language — speech, symbol, gesture, proximity —but the mystics knew there was a language deeper than words:the language of tears. The Sufi master Abu Hamid al-Ghazali taught… Continue reading

    The Seven Tears of the Soul

  • 🌑 Oracle & Lantern — Vol. 19

    Grief at the Table: A Week of Thanks-Giving There are some seasons of life where “gratitude” doesn’t float easily off the tongue like the scents of cinnamon and clove. Sometimes the word catches in the throat, heavy with memory, thick… Continue reading

    🌑 Oracle & Lantern — Vol. 19

  • 🌒 The Alchemy of Real Suffering

    “The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering.”— Helen M. Luke 🌑 The Paradox We Resist We live in a culture that treats suffering like an infection to be cut out or numbed… Continue reading

    🌒 The Alchemy of Real Suffering

  • Billy the Kid: Myth, Archetypes, and Inner Truth

    In Jungian terms, Billy the Kid isn’t merely a historical figure. He’s an American mythic complex—a living embodiment of archetypal forces that many of us carry within. 🧠 The Orphan Child – The Wounded Innocent Billy begins as the Orphan,… Continue reading

    Billy the Kid: Myth, Archetypes, and Inner Truth