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The Benevolent Wound

“The Sacred Wound is the critical act in which the mortal achieves divinity.”
Jean Houston

What if I told you that you can never fully heal. That you can scratch to the bone, gnaw at your sinew and suckle your marrow and you will still feel an impenetrable, troubling, haunting itch.

But you will continue to scratch. And although it brings temporary relief, the scratching has created a wound. But you keep scratching and covering the wound with “over the counter” tricks in hopes that it will heal. Until one day you slip and fall in the ooze of the wound that is now inhabiting the landscape of your life.

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A Mother’s Voice

Blog, Human Spirit, Trauma Healing

I was asked by a man recently “how can you support yourself doing what you do?” Why did you choose “these ways?”

I have never heard my Mother’s Voice. It lay in decay under the headstones of her losses. But, all decay can compost itself through worm dreams and seedlings and find its way to the light.

She was silenced long ago and has been riddled with illness all my life. I lost her young when I left my home, her and my three younger brothers behind. It ripped her heart out and, yet, she knew I had to go. I have wandered in the streets of my own dark night for decades in search of her touch, her song and a somewhere we could be together again. Her story has formed much of my own narrative.

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The Ancestral Portal

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Write the wrongs that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen in a piece of marble. Let go of emotions such as resentment and retaliation, which diminish you, and hold onto the emotions, such as gratitude and joy, which increase you. ~
Arabic Proverb

Welcome to the Ancestral portal. The veil is thin, the forgotten songs of the Earth and its people are heard in the wind that now moves freely among the hollow bone of the bare naked trees. The Ancestors are alive, beside you, within you and waiting to guide you back to the path Life mapped out so you could walk towards your greatest desire.

When I began my journey in this most profound path of devotion to Life, I would find myself in many “spiritual arenas” with prayer and ritual. In every circle I have ever sat in, the Ancestors would find their way into the prayers and the intentions within the hearts of the people. It was the first time I had consciously allowed the word Ancestor to penetrate my soul.

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A MESSAGE FOR OUR YOUNG MEN (AND A VULNERABLE SHARE)

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A couple of weeks ago I was asked by a man in the community, who leads Rights of Passage (ROP) initiations for young men, to gather a small group of wise women to speak with the new initiates and the men who are supporting them.

He asked that the women come forth and speak about a wound, a blessing and share some wisdom around what we feel young men need to hear from us. As the young men are 14 years of age he gave us an hour to honor their attention span.

Re- Mythed~ A Woman and a Tree

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Here is a picture. It might not seem like much to you. But if you look closely it holds an ancient myth- of a woman and a tree.

It is April 19, 2019, a full moon as well as my 42nd birthday. I have just emerged from initiation- a quest for life, vision and permission. This is the

only picture that was taken. I can hear my mama sayin’- “I can’t see your beautiful face”. Oh but mama dear look close and you will see the 1000 faces of Her in the silhouette of a woman and a tree.

Our Heart~ Our Womb~ Our Privilege

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“We do not care for what we do not know. We do not know what we cannot name.”
Sharon Blackie

When all women are in tune with and listening to their wombs and following their hearts, the Earth will restore to balance again…

There is an amazing man in my life who has the sensitivities to feel into the feminine dynamics within himself and others. In one of our heart to hearts he said~

“Women are the most intelligent species I know of. Every woman knows what she wants in her heart. If every woman listened to that voice, and followed it, life in and around her would restore to balance”

Words on Death and Nourishment from the Salmon Spirit

Blog, Digestion, Foods For Thought, Herbal Wisdom, Human Spirit, Trauma Healing

It was a few months ago that I met the Salmon Spirit. I was attending an Imbolc and plant medicine class and had an encounter with a plant that brought me on a journey to the sacred laws of reciprocity through the body and life of the Salmon. A dream message that slowly revealed its lesson through lived experiences that awakened a full awareness of my impact on the whole organism of life. (The full story will come forth as I allow myself to fully digest the gift of this insight.)

The Salmon is cross culturally symbolic as a totem of knowledge and reciprocity. The Salmon’s journey and dream is one of service and initiation. [Read more…] about Words on Death and Nourishment from the Salmon Spirit

Illness or Initiation?

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Illness or Initiation?

I was listening to one of my current inspiritors, Michael Meade, and he said something that plunged into my depths and re- affirmed this very present conversation I am having with my healing around what is really underlying my pain and trauma.

In summary he says:

“when you experience a life event that shapes the way you view and act in the world, that takes a piece of you- like severe illness or injury, death of someone so close to you, or some external disaster that rips apart a prior foundation on which you based your life- your Soul views that threshold as a signal that an initiation is about to begin”.