Maybe it is because I am waking up in one place now for the foreseeable future after a year of travel and spontaneous adventures. Perhaps it is because I adore my bed so much and the way my skin feels perfectly supported by my super soft sheets. Or maybe I’ve been thinking about morning routines and how they shape our days ahead. I think all three to be honest, and I am deeply curious as to how your morning looks on you…
Read Moreempathy | ˈɛmpəθi | noun [mass noun] the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Do you know anyone who is not in some sort of transition in their life? Me neither. It appears that each of us is confronted with some major life shift in some way or another and if we are not, our nearest and dearest is which also affects us. And tis’ the season for change as we cross the equinox threshold from summer into fall, which was immediately noted by the wind and drop in temperatures here in New York as if on cue. Scarves out, warm beverages in hand, leaves everywhere and boots replacing the wedge*…
Read MoreI’m laying absolutely still in the morning watching the sun rise in reflection upon my bedroom wall. And yet, it feels like waves are surging with great force within my psyche continuously. There is no imagined peace in the midst of such intense change. The only “real” peace I can muster is coming from my deep well of faith and even there I am having to cultivate it from the fertile ground of near depletion…
Read MoreI’ve been sharing lately that I feel I am somewhere between 90 years old and 9 months of gestation. My body aches from the wrath of 2 weeks of schlepping boxes out of a home into a storage unit over to UPS and then up four flights of stairs. Somehow it isn’t over as I continue to decipher my future life and wade through belongings that have a semblance of meaning in all of this, I am just not sure what…
Read MoreI’m at the airport and boarding in 15 minutes on a one-way flight to New York City. The last week has been a whirlwind of change, literally dismantling a life I had created in Jackson, Wyoming to head to NY without a plan. Many of you have asked what inspired such a move. My answer: I am listening. I don’t know what is on the other side of this moment, who I will meet, or what I will “do”. I am clear that I am an artist and that I don’t want to starve, other than that, I am diving deep into the mystery unfolding from within and without…
Read MoreThe heart is. Is that where my home is? Wherever my heart pulls, calls, nudges, or dares me to go? Right now I am surrounded by life in the uprooted form. My belongings are strewn about into piles of purge, sell, pack, and awaiting the inevitable…change. Have you ever heard that our home represents our mind and body? And that is why it can be helpful to clean the house when needing perspective. If what I see right now is my mind/body, I can only describe it as the elegance of upheaval. My color palette of the last 6 years is swathing my view, yet the serenity of what has been is no longer. There is no going back, I am (mind/body in the form of material possessions) soon being distributed amongst the valley I have always called home in some form or another…
Read MoreWe are cyclical in nature. Whether we feel it as we traverse life through seasons, or days and nights amidst the sun and the moon, or observe it within our very own bodies, hormones, emotions, and age. There are life cycles and there are death cycles, and there are cycles of karma that reverberate throughout time. Have you ever noticed how the anniversary of a birth, death, or perhaps a trauma holds a particular energy? Have you wondered why this is so?
Read MoreMe too. This moon is so bold and bright that I’ve been sleepless for days. It isn’t just light either, it is the fire of transformation. There is no other way to spin this astrology but to recognize the intensity for what it is. Fire is both life-affirming and death-inducing. The paradox of this element and the aspects of this full moon are blazing within the individual psyche at a supercharged pace. Can you feel it?
Read MoreIn the lucid realms that exist between a deep sleep state and an alert mind, there exists a treasure trove of communication with the unknown. This is the doorway into the magical, the real, and the truth serums that can alter your reality by seeing what you can no longer unsee. For those who dare to venture into the dreamland with a willingness to learn from the higher consciousness, rather than dismiss information received as solely a nightmare or otherwise, there are jewels of wisdom awaiting you…
Read MoreThese stars are not messing around. Today we have a full moon in Capricorn, otherwise known as the Guru Purnima to some. Guru, in its pure meaning, is a sanskrit term that signifies the one who dispels darkness and engenders light. There is also a “heavy” connotation to the term in that the teacher sits with much earned wisdom and thus grounds truth in the form of teachings. On this day Buddhists celebrate the first sermon offered by Gautama Buddha at Sarnath, India. And with the current astrological aspects circling this week, I am sure we will each experience the weighted importance of this moon in some form or another…
Read MoreToday is a New Moon in Cancer. While the moon is nestled at home in this sign, there is a heightened emotional frequency that cannot be avoided. Right now is about feelings. You have them, I have them and at times, as different as we are, we may be surfing similar feelings. In historic moments such as this one in the US, we can easily feel strongly about the issues at hand and their impact. It is also an excellent time to observe ourselves and our relationship to these emotions…
Read MoreRecently when discussing politics with a dear soul, I was inspired by a new vision of possibility for the future of this country. Current day: Walking amidst the minefield of the glitched-out matrix of blame and celebrated ego-identification, it has been hard for me to see where we can possibly go as a nation, much less, as humanity. But I am not giving up and truly there is nowhere to go even if someone were to want to. The samsaric wheel continues to spin, evolving and devolving as we go…
Read MoreYes, very! While it seems the headlines continue to bring in the intensity of the times, I can’t help but feel optimism from within my own skin. I can see there is a way forward through the density of the egotism and violence that consumes much of our society and, for me, it begins with self-responsibility. If I can show up fully with a clear mind and without blame, then I can change my world. And this is exactly what is needed right now, a new world…
Read MoreIn the midst of global and national anguished intensity that only seems to be bubbling over by the day, some of us ask ourselves, “What can I do?” Whether your personal channel of attention is following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Icelandic glaciers falling into the ocean, the Heard/Depp trial, or you are attempting to stay a social 6ft of distance from the headlines; the word is out, we can no longer avoid our responsibility of civic duty.…
Read MoreNervous system, relaxed. Excellent nights of sleep, check. A profound sense of belonging to a “place”, yes. Inspired? that too. Biofeedback feels good on all levels. Sense of the unpredictable?...yes. I wonder what will be?
Read MoreFrom the silken midnight waters, to the fire within the darkness. And a poisonous dart of passion, desperate acts of the heartless. There’s a rumble from the depths, as truth seekers carry on. Even in discomfort persevering ‘till the dawn. And the shadow invites you in, and it isn’t all that’s nice. I have to look around, and not away while dissolving grips of vice...
Read MoreHello world. How art these days for thee? While riding high on the dragons of the mind, how doest one relate? I continueth to traverse the unexplored terrain of mine soul, as usual. And 't doest not feeleth boring. However, I findeth myself aching to ooze these words through the sieve of Shakespeare's English only for dramatic flair. Is't working?
Just going to start writing now. I don’t really even feel like it. Everywhere I look I see flames. Burning down where I have been, who I have been, and with whom I have been. Scary. Terrifying. Lonely. Sad. Touching in. Trying to find. The. Way. Home…
Oh it dares. It dares to be bold, to be grand, to be illuminating, and more fun than recent years for sure. Of course, there will be challenges, we are still in the roaring 2020’s after all…yet there is a sense of reprieve as we enter 2022 under the auspicious new moon in Capricorn in a heroic trine with cosmic lightning superstar Uranus. It is time to let our hair down and dance to the rhythm of our own drumbeat. Pretending is over, you are cordially invited to be YOURSELF…
In my heart for sure…thinking about everyone on this planet and beyond that I love so much that it hurts so good…You know what I mean? That love that can stretch beyond time and space, even past, present, and future. The love that tastes like the sweetest of honey or a bitter medicine that heals the deepest layers of self. The love that sparkles in the light, reflecting every facet of radiance and rainbows of glitter…
