: 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 Right Relationship
Oltremarino, A Very Special Kind of Blue
Some colours are like uninvited dinner guests. Others are for fun. And then there’s oltremarino – the blue of all blues. My true blue. The end-all blue. The blue that all other blues quietly aspire to be. Romantic. Mystical. Instantaneous, undeniable, undoubtedly, inevitable. Like love at first sight. Like a soul calling. Like hands knowing. It’s the love of all loves …
The Art of Nurturing Intimacy
In love, we seek closeness. We seed to close the distance between the you and the I, to hold the otherness and become the us. We want to be an us. Love enjoys everything. Love needs everything. And then there’s desire – this beautiful wild creature, this heat, in our underground lands. Desire needs mystery, needs space, needs to take us from where we are to where we’ve never been …
Choose the One who …
Choose the one your soul desires, your heart sees, your body knows …
Heat of a Woman
In the underground of our natural wildland lives a being: our heat. This beautiful creature is our sensory nature, our sensual self, our creative power. It is our life force. And like all wild creatures, it has its own timing, desires, needs and nutritive cycles …
Wild, Untamed
… And there’s a knowing of each other, and of being known, a knowing not of flesh, but through flesh. A transfer of scent, a spirit. An opportunity for a deepening.
Because to love one another we must love our wild, untamed parts. Because deep love is the allowance to be stirred entirely by the wildish soul of our partner …
The Feminine Mysteries of Love and Longing
The masculine aspect of love is the fiery sword that becomes the action, the word, the seed, the penetrative power which initiates, which says “I love you. I want you. I need you.” The feminine quality of love is the mystic. She is the yearning, the longing, the moist soil, the bottom of the wells, the wombed room, the cup to be filled, the tides pulling in towards herself, the desire, the dreaming. She is the memory itself. She whispers in a voice only the soul of her beloved understands and she says, “I am waiting for you. I am longing for you.” …
The Sacred Art of Self Adornment
Somewhere in these intimacies I too learned the sacred art of self adornment. When my night dress became the silvery romance of moonskin. An emerald green scarab kissed my finger – and became my ring …
Soulmate Love: What You Seek Is Seeking You
And when he asks to know you, open for him like a flower, and tell him. Tell him your wisdoms, desires, and mystical secrets. Tell him not because, but because his soul asked you to …
Sing Love Back to Skin
Sleep of trust, surrender of tear. With a kindness of rhythm, she sang soul back to love, warmth back to skin. Skin against skin, she slipped gently into the bed, returning his heart back to his body. And this is how they awakened. Wrapped around each other, tangled from their night, but tangled in a new way now – a good and lasting way …
When Love is Peeling Cinnamon
Love peels us. We are like cinnamon, and every relationship peels yet another layer of our bark, taking us closer to our heart, our inner truth and our natural, most sweetest, scent. Our soulskin …
When Love is Kiss on the Beloved’s Wrist
Love is a kiss on the wrist, a holding of space where we can fall in trust, and in deep intimacy …
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.” …
