I met with a lovely friend a few weeks ago for tea and walking the dogs and chatting about our work. She is a shamanic practitioner, trained in the work of Michael Harner and the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.
Spring is sprung, and the magazine racks are rife with clutter-clearing articles to kick start your spring cleaning and get you organized.
How can you find refuge from the pressures of your daily life and the reports of turmoil in the world?
How can you honour significant moments in your life or even enhance your appreciation of the small gifts in your everyday life?
And how can you reconnect with your spiritual centre on a daily basis?
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How do you like the sound of "creating a Home for your Soul?"Doesn't that sound cosy, nurturing, supportive?
If you've heard of the Chinese art of Feng Shui, you'll probably know it is about trying to bring your living space into harmony with your environment and with your own needs.
There were a number of upsetting challenges affecting me in the month of January 2011. For details of some things on the farm you can check my other blog.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred Tennyson 1850
That's only the first stanza of that poem, which continues with the call to let go of grief, the "feud of rich and poor", fal
Decisions decisions....
It's funny how some things can seem to incite so much stress at first, and then ultimately be the cure that resolves a great deal of said stress.
It's the first of March, 2010, and it is the day after the closing of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, BC.
We have a wonderful dog we got from the animal shelter a little over a year ago. We named him Angus. He just seemed like an "Angus", and I learned upon researching the name that it was Gaelic for One Choice. I guess he was our one choice.
We have just passed another full moon as this week brings us the ancient Celtic festival of Imbolc.