: 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.
Folklore, Myth + Literature
{poetry translations} Pagan Love by Dora Gabe
… pagan love. Pagan to believe and to hide in pagan ways from all, that you are in love … Sacred and sinful, female blood …
What Snow White Knows
in today’s age women are constantly pressured by unrealistic standards of beauty and eternal youth. Instagram filters, lip fillers, thread lifts – beautiful dolls on image screens. But where is the depth? Where is the heart? We’ve forgotten what truly matters, and what to truly value …
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 …
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 …
Urban Wild, By The Canal
Some time is controlled by the ebbs and flows, consequently covering and uncovering our shores. Sometimes we can allow its access early in the mornings or evenings, and we can stay gently in some ultimate intimacy. Eventually, like canals, we move towards our sea, to be consumed in his loving arms …
Riverwalking
“The word clarity has two meanings, one ancient and the other modern. The Latin word clarus meant clear sounding, ringing out, ‘clear as a bell’; so in the ancient world, ‘clear’ came to mean lustrous, splendid, radiating light. The moon has this kind of clarity when …
The Secret Threads
… Until one day we find ourselves before the landscape, which embodies everything that we have been looking for our entire life; the echo that called us for so long now swells into the sound itself. And we know. Here is the thing that I was made for…
What The Snow Queen Knows
Sometimes we look around and may wonder, “Where did the love and compassion go?” It’s you darling – you *are* it. And others experience love through your mere presence in this life…
The Gift of The Magi: Love, Selflessness and The Eternal Virgin
With sacrifice, love transcends the physical. In such deep love, divisions dissolve, and two become one…
