Hello, dear ones - I’ll keep this email as brief/ direct as possible because if you’re anything like me right now, you’re juggling a lot while also wishing you were hiding away in a cozy cottage with a fire where no one knows where you are. Yesterday was the final full moon of the year. I felt called to spent time with water and hung out in a sauna (with cold plunge tubs) next to the ocean. Just what I needed. Podcast I also dropped an incredibly potent and important podcast episode. Tad...
5 days ago • 3 min read
Dear ones - Here we are - the final month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. I’m writing to you from Ireland and here on Éire and Alba (the longer ago names for Ireland and Scotland), our ancestors would have acknowledged the new year as having already begun at Samhain, end of October, early November. This season, instead of being a time of rushing and full schedules and celebrations, would’ve been recognized as the dark, lean times of the year -where food and fuel are scarce and...
19 days ago • 5 min read
Dear ones - We each have a fire within us. And we need our fire in these times, perhaps more than ever. What if your fear of being seen as lazy is wasting your fire and contributing to your burnout? And what if what we’ve been taught to consider as laziness is our body and brain trying to recalibrate back to more sustainable cycles of efforting and rest? Your desire to contribute and make a difference is a genuine and beautiful thing… and when it gets entangled with (often unconscious and...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Dear ones - I just wanted to drop you a note in the wake of the US election and the heightened emotions and stress many people are feeling right now. A reminder: What you are feeling is ok, and probably a healthy response. To respond as if under threat when you are under threat is good. It's not sustainable. Nor does it do much to create a new world. But for now, feel the feels. Breathe. Hydrate. Get out into Nature. Gather and grieve together. Touch solid things like trees. Gently pet your...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Dear ones - Here's our November overview email with: a tarot card for our little collective for the month; today’s New Moon podcast episode; and upcoming events/ ways to work with me. Tarot card for November: Wildwood Tarot by Mark Ryan, John Matthews, and Will Worthington I always encourage folks who get my readings to look at the card themselves first and notice what comes up in their bodies. What emotions or sensations are stirred? What thoughts and stories seem to pop to mind? What do you...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Dear ones - Have you heard the expression: “the veil is thin”? And do you have an experience of what that means? This bonus episode is in honor of what the Celtic culture would call Samhain (though plenty of cultures around the world have other celebrations at this time of year honoring the ancestors and marking this moment of the thinning veil). In this episode, you’ll hear me muse on: what I think a “thin veil” means; where this particular season fits into the larger seasonal cycles and...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hello, dear ones - “My life has changed so much for the better and I keep trying to tell everyone I know about you… but I don’t really know how to describe it or say what you do… so I just tend up telling them they have to go see my witchy healer medicine person, Kate.” Many of you who’ve worked with me have said things like this over the years. Some of you reading this might remember hosting me in your house for a little get-together with those friends; so I could lead them through a guided...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Dear ones - Have you experienced the grief of wondering whether your life, whether YOU, have any purpose? Only to try thing after thing while seeking your purpose; ultimately ending up more uncertain and confused? And burned out now on top of it? You’re not alone. This episode is in response to a listener who wrote to me after listening to my Episode 49 on Wellness World Pitfalls if we’re not including shadow work. She was drawing some connection between what she heard in my episode and an...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Dear ones - It's the beginning of a new month so here's our October overview email - complete with a tarot card for our little collective for the month. Tarot card for October: Shadowscapes Tarot by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and Barbara Moore I always encourage folks who get my readings to look at the card themselves first and notice what comes up in their bodies. What emotions or sensations are stirred? What thoughts and stories seem to pop to mind? What do you find yourself repelled by or drawn...
3 months ago • 5 min read