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Intimate Relating
In any close relationship (where we take the risk of allowing another to matter) we open ourselves to the two primordial energies of...
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Apr 18, 20242 min read


Rebirth
By Alex Elle There will be moments when you will bloom fully and then wilt, only to bloom again. If we can learn anything from flowers,...
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Apr 14, 20241 min read


Waiting to Be Free
BLACKBIRD By the Beatles Interpreted by Evan Rachel Wood https://open.spotify.com/track/2gQhXam6W18YxCNoHQQ24s?si=rV0MHGMOSj-...
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Apr 10, 20241 min read


Fierce Grace
For many of us, initiation into soul awareness . . . Awakening . . . occurs by way of transition, shattering, loss, and reorganization,...
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Apr 6, 20242 min read


The Wound and the Healer
Many who are interested in spirituality and healing have been wounded – physically, emotionally, or at a soul level. Sometimes this...
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Apr 2, 20242 min read


Receiving the Ancestors
Our ancestors continue to live within us, deep in the somatic unconscious, the shards of their unlived lives emerging-into-now by way of...
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Mar 30, 20242 min read


Holy Water
Tending to grief is an essential task (if not THE essential task) of the alchemist/healer. Providing a sanctuary and safe passage for its...
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Mar 26, 20242 min read


The Alchemy of Tears
Rumi says . . . “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they...
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Mar 23, 20242 min read


The Love Dimension
Love Dimension by Beautiful Chorus https://open.spotify.com/track/19KSp74blKCq3Busay80hW?si=9acfa8ab62bd43db https://youtu.be/LkTOxyoKHTk...
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Mar 18, 20241 min read


Letting Go
By David Whyte At the end things pass away into a hard won perspective. The sepia photographs of childhood like twilight encounters with...
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Mar 14, 20241 min read


Unraveling Resistance
On a conscious level, of course, we very genuinely want to heal and fully step into a life of deep intimacy, creativity, and aliveness....
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Mar 10, 20242 min read


Renewal
At times, our everyday reference points will fall away, revealing a shimmering, pregnant, dark void. What we were so clear about just...
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Mar 6, 20242 min read


The Fire of Attention
When doing psychological or spiritual work, the alchemists remind us that we must apply the proper heat to the material arising within...
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Mar 2, 20242 min read


Now
Sometimes we might wonder how to feel, in our bodies and hearts, what really matters. Perhaps we look out into the starry night sky and...
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Feb 28, 20242 min read


Inner Family
You may wish to consider honoring the role that various aspects of your inner self or psyche, your "inner family", have played in your...
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Feb 24, 20242 min read
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