Sacred Pause

  • 🌕🌊✨ 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 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

  • 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

  • 🌙 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

    🌙 Watching at the Edge of Reflection

  • Returning to the Field of Wonder 🌿✨

    There was a time in my life when the world was not yet divided into categories of useful and useless, important and trivial, sacred and ordinary. There was simply experience. A breeze across the skin. A bug crawling across a… Continue reading

    Returning to the Field of Wonder 🌿✨

  • 🌾 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

  • She returns in whispers.

    Spring does not arrive with trumpets. Before the roses stretch, before the fruit trees dare their blossoms, the small ones rise first — the quiet keepers of the threshold. They come not in spectacle but in persistence, lifting their green… Continue reading

    She returns in whispers.

  • 🌿 The Tree in the Midst: Awakening Consciousness in the Garden

    Sometimes the deeper meaning of a story doesn’t appear until we slow down and look at the language itself. Recently I found myself doing exactly that with the Genesis garden narrative—sitting with the Hebrew words, tracing their roots, and letting… Continue reading

    🌿 The Tree in the Midst: Awakening Consciousness in the Garden