Orb weaver spiders create strong, spiral webs suspended in space and wait for what they need to come to them. What can we learn from them as we travel further into the darkest time of year, when we’re asked to let go of our pursuits, ambitions, linear thinking, and Summer ways of being in the world?
Read MoreWhat does it mean to die while we live? How can attuning to our own inner cycles of life, death, and rebirth help us to access more joy, truer work, and a deeper trust in how things unfold? I talk about all of this in today’s podcast episode with my guest, Lindsay Mack, founder of Tarot for the Wild Soul.
Read MoreWho are the dead, and what do they have to do with our vocation, the climate, or navigating our modern lives? It turns out that they have a lot to do with all of those things, and in this conversation with writer and educator Perdita Finn, we dive into how wonderful and natural it is to collaborate with those on the other side.
Read MoreWelcome to the first podcast episode of the 2023 Autumn season! Learning how to navigate the darkness, literally and spiritually, is a skill that most of us would benefit from working on. Knowing how to be in the dark helps us to become people who are in touch with an older wisdom and can live out our deep service to the world.
Read MorePart 4 of the 4-part series, Unlearning Capitalism.
How many of our activities at home are in service to how we earn a wage? The laundry, the cleaning, the cooking - it’s so often crammed into edges of our days or weeks, in tiny windows of time when we’re not beholden to income-earning work. While this may have shifted early on in the pandemic, I’ve found that even for those still working from home, the size of the work continues to squeeze out the time necessary for homemaking.
Read MorePart 3 of the 4-part series, Unlearning Capitalism.
In the same way, your labor - the energy you exert to create beauty, nourishment, and care for yourself and others - can be a form of worship and communion with the natural world and the divine. This is possible no matter what you do for work, how others feel about your labor, or how much you’re paid to do it. Your labor can become sacred if you simply intend it to be so. And, you deserve to labor in the ways that work for your body and are a reflection of your soul’s giftedness.
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