Ego and Intuition
Revised: August 7, 2025 “Ego interrupts intuition.” ~ Danielle LaPorte Ego and Intuition Ego and intuition are like two sides of the same coin. Egos are great at being dramatic, “logical”, and dark. Everything is doom and gloom with ego. Ego’s job is to protect you from harm, and it’s really good at it. Intuition […]
We Are The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
Revised: August 7, 2025 Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ~ Barack Obama There is a lot going on these days. The divide between us and them seems to grow deeper […]
Between Two Worlds
Revised: August 7, 2025 There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can’t totally recognise. ~ Alessandro Michele Our time in between two worlds began in 2020 when the global pandemic shut down the whole world. We have been in it ever since and we will be […]
Power Struggles: The Collective Healing Of Now
Revised: August 7, 2025 Unresolved past is destiny; it repeats. ~ Thomas Hübl Power Struggles Culturally, we are going through great change right now. It is uncomfortable at best, and downright painful for many people. The division we are all experiencing on so many levels is the result of both natural evolution and outside manipulation. […]
Emptying the Vessel: A Winter Solstice Ritual
The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time — a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken. ~ Frederick Lenz Here in Northern Hemisphere, we are coming up on the Winter Solstice this Thursday. Making […]
Embracing Your Shadow
There is strong shadow where there is much light. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Carl Jung wrote, “Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? […]
Navigating Emotional Tides: Managing Feelings and Capacity in Challenging Times
Revised: August 16, 2025 Emotions are tunnels. You have to go all the way through the darkness to get to the light at the end. ~ Emily Nagoski on navigating emotional tides We are in crisis again for the umpteenth time in the last decade. The constant barrage of executive orders and unholy cabinet appointments […]
Working with Our Shadow
Revised: August 12, 2025 Jung On Shadows: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” ~ Carl Jung The average person spends much of their day operating from various states of unconsciousness. We sometimes call it autopilot. Our bodies are going through the motions because the motions […]
Unhealed Wounds and Shelter in Place
Revised: August 12, 2025 Do not kid yourself, a conflict is never about the surface issue. It’s about one’s unsaid, untreated, and unhealed wounds. ~ Unknown Author Americans do not have good mental and emotional hygiene. Few of us were taught that one of the keys to mental health is to honor and experience our […]
Faith is an Ocean
Revised: August 3, 2025 To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float. ~ Alan Watts In today’s world, we, as a society, are struggling with our Spirit and our […]