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Lighting the path in a Hermit year
The first night I was on retreat last June, the power went out. There were generators in the main building but not the others. I sat by the fire talking for a couple hours before making the walk to the other side of the property where I was staying. As I walked down the gravel…
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Balancing Solar and Lunar Energies
This Thursday is the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year. For those living some distance from the equator, this is the maximum potency of solar energy. One may associate it energetically with the Full Moon, the height of a cycle and the most powerful expression. And yet, what we…
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Landscape of a dream
It had been more than six months since I left New York for more than a day. There were several reasons but it wasn’t because I didn’t have a desire to travel.I returned to Asheville, NC where I experienced a deep grounding last year, and it felt so different.Maybe it was how the city had…
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Held in a state of suspension (and tension)
On Tuesday March 19 at 11:06pm EDT we reach the exact midpoint between the solstices, with equal hours of day and night. As we cross this invisible threshold we begin an acceleration towards the height of summer. As with the solstices, often our bodies hold the echo of this marker in time, feeling its effects…
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Is healing possible?
Healing can be a loaded word, and lately it seems trauma has become one too— the subject of numerous think pieces about whether the wider understanding of what constitutes trauma has gone too far. As a person who has experienced both “big T” and “little T” trauma, I feel it’s a great disservice to compare…
Inward Vision 