Doctor, you say there are no halos around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as angels, to soften and blur and finally banish the edges you regret …
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The Moon Cycle. A gentler way of being
Here\’s my contribution to the New Moon. I wanted something simple I could follow to help get back into a circular conception of time, balancing the usual linear timeline with something more organic. I couldn\’t find anything – so I created it. Feel free to copy and print it- that\’s what I\’m doing with it. …
When Life happens – and a nod to Pope Joan.
The worst sin is ingratitude, which is a forgetting of the greatness, beauty, truth and goodness of the Source that is constantly creating us – in other terms, a forsaking of Being, and the Good. My favorite Leloup quote today, from The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Today I had my day all planned out, my …
Research for Mary Magdalene
This August, I have read through piles of books, weird and not so weird, factual and conjectural, both fantastically and poorly researched. Here\’s my research for this picture so far: Jean-Yves Leloup\’s Gospell of Mary Magdalene. (I was so wrong when I felt I hadn\’t encountered Mary Magdalene before. She is all over my bookshelves …
Mary Magdalene
Unexpectedly working on a beautiful new picture. I returned from a Labyrinth Training Workshop at Veriditas, to find that my mom had cancer again. This is her 4th time; each prior time she has been successfully treated and her cancer resolved. She has a truly fantastic team of doctors and feels very safe in their …
Our Feminine Divine
For all of us who feel a little lost, a lot frightened and afraid to come home to our own inner feminine…The metaphorical Divine Mother has all the patience and time in the world to love you, exactly as you are, every day, whether you know it or not. Whether you care or not. Our …
Sacred Marriage
Winter Solstice Meanderings. Exploring the feminine proclivity towards a holistic, simultaneous, synthetic and concrete view of the world. Essentially balancing the linear, sequential, reductionist and abstract way of the masculine worldview. Neither is better. Like the ancient Taoist circle, symbol of symmetry and integration, both are equally present in creative tension. We honor one over the other to …