In my attempt to wake up and become more aware of my life as it happens, of the sacred Here and Now, I have come up against an old limitation. My guiding spirits showed it to me as a castle with thick defensive walls, its portcullis closed and too heavy for me to raise on Read More …
I really don’t know how to do it. How to pay attention to life as it happens. How to find the sacred in the everyday and acknowledge it in the moment. I try and then I forget to try. Because I am seriously clueless, I consulted my tarot cards. I asked how I can train Read More …
Questing for signs of the sacred in the everyday, I find myself in the present moment. Beyond techniques of the sacred, like meditation and shamanic journeys, the here and now is the only portal to the awareness of Spirit that I have found. So the sacred here and now is where I need to take Read More …
For so long, I have been dreaming about a particular way of living. I have courted it and longed for it and prepared myself for it. And now finally I realise that I could die of old age doing that. What I really need is to focus my efforts and create that life. I am Read More …
For several weeks now, I’ve been working closely with soil. I have given it the mulch and fertiliser it needs to thrive. I’ve sown seeds in it and watched baby plants grow. And I have relished eating the first fresh greens. I witnessed very closely how important a good, healthy soil is. As a Druid, Read More …
Working on my raised vegetable bed, I’m learning once again that soil is alive. Every time I dig into the earth, I meet beetles, worms and centipedes. Apart from those, the soil is teeming with micro-organisms and fungi and all sorts of things that you can’t even see with the naked eye. All of them Read More …