The small man Builds cages for everyone He Knows. While the sage, Who has to duck his head When the moon is low, Keeps dropping…
Becoming Adult, Becoming Free
“No one can pressure you to do anything you don’t want to do.” I recently heard this in a setting in which I had sat…
for those who sleep out
There are people sleeping outside in the cold and the rain. There are systemic, economic, cultural, and personal reasons for this reality, but in almost…
Layers of Being Within the Moment
“I’ve got nothing to say.” This is a mental habit, an automatic thought that arises when it’s time to sit down to write. Another automatic…
Seven Scorpions, Part 2
Read Part 1. Claiming the parts of us that are disruptive, toxic, and at times underhanded is not easy or pleasurable, though it is empowering…
Seven Scorpions, Part 1
After freeing Isis from Seth’s imprisonment, Thoth advised the goddess to hide in the marshes. To protect the goddess and er unborn son, Horus, Thoth provided…
The Lion and The Stillness
I keep an oracle on my desk, a pot filled with challenges, and the one I drew said to deal with something that I’d been…
Deepening into the Dark
At this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, when the playful activity of summer begins to cool and withdraw into fall, I feel my…
Seeking the Way of Integration
Decisiveness is not a strong suit of mine, but for much of my life I’ve had this drive to do something. The problem was settling…
Arising, Sustaining, Dissolving
From Western alchemy we inherit a threefold process model. One articulation of the Sulphur-Salt-Mercury triad could be these three phases of process: arising, where processes begin or initiate;…