SpiritMaa

I’m smashed up emotionally after finishing the book The Heart of the Fire. With a lovely picture of the ‘Lord and Lady’ on the front cover, I was wondering whether the book would be too much the ‘pagan romance’ to be worth my time, however I couldn’t have been farther from the truth.

 Going very deeply into the earth magic and altered states involved in the training of a pagan priestess in Scotland during the late 1500&...

dreams. are they random fragments of our day? messages from the subconscious? indicators of archetypal forces at work in our psyche? predictions of the future? messages from the cosmos? indicators of our fears? visits from those who have crossed over? encounters with the astral plane? a chance to play out our desires? a pipeline to the collective consciousness? a chance to go to night school ? or telegraphs from the divine?

 when you realize your life decisions have taken you down a different road than most, is it enough to try to love the planet? when there are no children and family is far away, is it enough to follow your passion? when the fast pace of friends lives precludes frequent connection, is it enough to commune with gods and spirits? when existential angst takes over, can comfort come from the stories? when emotional process runs deep, is it...

Book Review

Now what about the beautiful Call to Power: Grandmothers Speak by Sharon McErlane? That book really knocked me out! As the main character was initiated on the spiritual plane by the Great Council of Grandmothers, I felt moved to enter the same energy meditatively, and felt the call to trust the divine form of the grandmothers. Many things touched me – that so many of us have had no role models for women claiming their p...

Book Review: Magdalene Rising, The Passion of Magdalene

While reading Elizabeth Cunningham's Celtic pre-quel, Magdalene Rising, I was moved.  I found myself crying with recognition at the very tantric parts of the story.  When she anoints the skull she finds by the sacred pool with her own menstrual blood….  When sex is discussed as ‘friendship of the thighs…. ‘  When s...

a few years ago....

well, we were not exactly in the cremation grounds, as we were all westerners living in a large west coast city, and the closest we could get to cremation grounds was outside a columbarium... however, at my impetus, there we were.  i had been following a path that was slowly revealing itself to be a part of goddess oriented tantric traditions, and to my surprise, felt a call to meditate in a graveyard.  no, i wasn't crazy, a...

Fall 2009

So what do you think happens when you are sitting across from a partner, doing tantric meditation, and after saying 'let go' outloud - thinking it's for him -- you realize it's really you that needs to let go.  And all the sudden the energy comes pouring up your spine, and your arms start moving, and your body starts vibrating, and you find yourself hissing like a snake.  You find your hand moving up to his heart chakra and tapping it...

 October 2009

Tahoe Spirit - energy of the fir tree covered mountains and sandy beaches,energy of eagle and the wind rippling the waves, energy of sun that warms the water and me, moonlight that mystifies, starlight and milky way that moves me into ancestor space, energy of the 1000 foot+ snow fed crystal clear lady of the lake.   Jai Maa. Your earth waves, wind-water and light waves hold me steady through the receiving and the grieving, you clear and purify ...

September 09

Gale force winds the first night. Surprise to find the effort needed to stay upright -- prone, however, the boat rocked us to sleep. Later sitting on deck and watching the ocean, I was  enthralled.  And more than rewarded with a humpback whale greeting and tale slapping as we sailed by...Then Ketchikan--the mountain-water town-on-stilts.  Totem poles everywhere, not minding the upside-down  umbrella or rain in our faces.  Energy sto...