Tag Archive: Ritual

The Magic Of Beltane

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Last week I noticed the first deep pink rose unfurling its petals in our front garden. Mmmm! I paused in my hurried walk up the driveway to take a deep whiff. Each evening the daylight lingers a few more minutes, ebbing into twilights that seem endless. New spring wildflowers are popping out each day along…

My Meditation Experiment

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I first tried to meditate when I was 19. I sat in my college dorm room, in as much of a lotus position as I could manage, and gazed at a candle flame. Then I closed my eyes, counted the beats of my in and out breath and attempted to empty my mind for the…

Smudging: Clear Stuck Energy And Invite Postive Flow Into Your Personal Spaces

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When my daughter Ciel was just four or five years old, we lived in a little, decrepit cottage backed up into a hillside. Ciel slept in the room in the back of the house, but during our first night there she woke up crying from nightmares. “I’m scared in here!” she wailed. “I don’t want…