Staying Close and Letting Go

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell I’ve been writing this blog for eleven years and five months. I started in March of 2010 with two posts a week. Expressing myself freely and meeting so many wonderful […]

It’s Time to Bring Out the Silver

“The word ‘feminine,’ as I understand it, has very little to do with gender, nor is woman the custodian of femininity. Both men and women are searching for their pregnant virgin. She is the part of us who is outcast, the part who comes to consciousness through going into darkness, mining our leaden darkness, until […]

Religious But Not Religious

“To discover the truth of the transcendent, whether that is understood as knowing God, gaining Buddha consciousness, being in Tao, or putting on the mind of Christ, one first has to engage one’s particular religious path as if it were true.” p. 168 “The knowledge gained through the practice of the symbolic life changes the […]

The Power of Love Haiku

  The Power of Love   I felt it last night. Easter loosened close-packed earth, freed love to shine through.   Ice melted. Water flowed from choked up reservoirs. Bees dispensed pollen.   Cardinals flew by. Their wings swept away dead leaves, caressed blooming buds.   It took me so long to excavate ancient wounds, […]

Archetypes: Your Guides to Your Authentic Self. Part II

The last post shared the first part of my article, “Archetypes: Your Guides to Your Authentic Self,” featured in the spring issue of ‘Inspired” magazine. You can read the whole magazine here. That post ended with a discussion of how your personal experiences with your human mother and father influenced your attitudes toward the universal […]

Are You Ready to Meet Your Soul’s Twins?

Okay. There’s so much to tell you that I hardly know where to begin. Do you remember me ever writing “I don’t think I have it in me to write another book?” after Healing the Sacred Divide was published in 2013?  I don’t remember if I actually wrote it in a post, but I certainly […]

What Is the Source of Your Longing?

“Blessed be the longing that brought you here And quickens your soul with wonder. May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire That disturbs you when you have settled for something safe… May you come to accept your longing as divine urgency. May you know the urgency with which God longs […]

Surrendering to the the Pull of Love

“The mountains are calling and I must go…” –John Muir “Are we there yet?” Fred smiled indulgently at me from the driver’s seat of the car. I knew I sounded like a grumpy, impatient child. But it was late afternoon, I was hungry, stiff, and achy. And we were two hours away from our family […]

What Will Be Your Legacy to the Next Generation?

You are who you are because of those who preceded you. Your grandparents shaped the personalities and lives of your parents who shaped you. The lessons they learned freed you from having to relearn them for yourself; their unresolved issues became part of your inheritance. The issues you resolve in your lifetime will free your […]

Sacred Laws of Psyche: The Connection Between Opposites

When you were a child, your parents taught you to see things dualistically, in terms of either-or, good-bad. They did this to socialize you into the norms of acceptable behavior and keep you safe. Every time you exhibited qualities or traits they considered inappropriate, they guided you into ones they believed were more desirable.