: dedicated to deepening our human connections, so that we lead more spiritually and emotionally fulfilling lives; by exploring the wisdom and secrets of our ancestors, and unveiling the beauty beyond the veil and within ourselves.
The Wisdom of Folklore, Story + Myth
Crescent Moon Bear: Anger as a Teacher
Following a reader’s request, I guide you on ways to understand the messages intense emotions give you, and how to handle, work with and transform their energies for your highest benefit; we also dive into the story of Crescent Moon Bear, and its healing understructures based on Zen …
What Étaín Knows
We dive into Celtic myth to explore the beautiful love story between Étaín and Midir – a love that spans over a thousand years, a love beyond time and shape – while also exploring the various changing shapes and phases of our intimate relationships …
O. Henry’s Springtime à la Carte: Coincidences, Mistakes and Love’s Destiny
Dandelion wasn’t a mere plant from a meadow to be written on the menu card – for it was no longer her gentle frail fingers typing it – it was the heart’s longing, the memory that gave her life, the name of the young man who weaved her a crown of it making her his love, his future bride, one late summer afternoon, when in the shaded raspberried lane, two lovers promised to marry – a promise made not only with lips, but made with souls and hearts also …
How The Moomins Found The True Meaning of Christmas
In typical Moomin fashion, they stumbled on the true meaning of Christmas; that this is a time for giving, for sharing wholeheartedly and unstintingly with others. Under the branches of the tree, a compact feeling of holiness, as they loved one another …
What Snow White Knows
The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe. Then, now, always. The sun is rebellious, especially across the surfaces of ice, it wins. And we deepen into a drop containing all of our intimacies; water nourishes the soil of our soul, and we wake, anew, each time …
Every Wild Rose Has a Story
When it’s time, it’s time. It doesn’t matter if we’re ready or not, if it makes sense or not, if things look messy or not, when it’s time, it’s time. Our soul knows. Our heart knows. Where, and with whom, we truly belong …
When Love is a Skeleton Woman
“And that is how they awakened, wrapped one around the other, skin against skin, tangled from their night, in another way now, in a good and long lasting way.” …
What Sedna Knows
… and we remember compassion and forgiveness amidst the turbulence and coldness of the Northern seas. And we remember tenderness – how it will always sing us back to heart, back to warmth, and of this, new life will begin …
Along The Rivers of Grace
A discussion on grace, karma, the choices we make along the circling rivers of life, and delving into the symbology of the story “The Golden Girl” …
Behind The Green Door, Destiny Awaits
Along life’s paths, we are led by the mystical hands of destiny, and when the unclockable clocks strike their right time, we’ll see our green door. There, two worlds will touch, they’ll kiss, and we’ll find that love is not only felt in the hearts – it is known by the hands also …
Bluebeard: The Key to Knowing
Bluebeard is a story about initiation. The key is her key to opening the doors of greater knowing, truth and an opportunity to sharpen her instincts, intuition and senses. And while many may say “curiosity kills the cat” I disagree. When combined with good reason, it is precisely curiosity that can even save a life …
Beauty and Her Beast
The idea of a house and a white fence are not what binds a couple for a lifetime; it is our ability to adapt in any climate and adjust through the changing shapes, within and without, as we walk along the wilderness, side by side. And sometimes learning, or re-learning, how to build our fire, as primitive as it may sound, is actually the path forward and towards each other …
