Divine Inspirations

Autumn Bridge Autumnal Blessings to us all during such a significant time of year. Autumnal Blessings means what? A time of plenty?  Halloween? Making time to get together with those we care and love?  A change of Season? The Holiday journey? Preparing to spend most of our money?  Richer food? etc. etc. As an Indigenous astrologer, it is paying more and more attention to the Earth and its peoples and what is connected to them, us, Her. When I think of autumn, I always envision a bridge because I feel it is the one season that asks us to take a journey into some more intense changes in our lives, be it physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual.  The elementals during a season change affect us on all levels. For Autumn we are facing a change that for most of us would prefer the other way around, from winter to spring. We actually don't even look for a bridge from winter to spring, we just start to want to fly into it. However, from Autumn to winter we ne

Scott Frazier's Antelope Santee Dolls Blessings to you as we begin our descent out of the summer, yet still holding onto its joy and abundant message of love. As I mentioned in a previous blog encounter I was born in the summer and for some reason this year, this summer has been the most amazing summer of my life. Perhaps it is because I have returned to the sea and I am very content in my home here.  In addition to building friendships with wonderful people who just seem to fit into my world, and I in theirs. I have been lax in preparing this blog as so many life-changing events have blessed my life this summer.  The most important is my daughter returning back into my life from an absence of 10 years. So we have been connecting almost every day through emails.  I look so forward to hearing from her each day and including her in my life again. I would love to share the amazing metaphysical, magical, miracle that reunited us. But first you must be interested in it, and I also

Auggie sends blessings at his favorite place. It's Summer Solstice! Blessings upon us as we move into a new season and experience. It really was head-on with this Solstice entrance.  Meaning... whenever a new season comes upon us, I sense it immediately and it comes with the wind.  I do believe in the saying, "Winds of Change".  Every season comes with the wind, and usually, it comes early.  At least that is how I feel it. However, this morning it came spot on!  I went out to walk Auggie on our typical path and jaunt, and my hair actually blew straight up.   I had an appointment today in Brookings Oregon, and after I brought Auggie to Harris Beach for a walk/run.  It was extremely windy with most folks wearing their hoodies.  Auggie being so low to the ground was getting some sand in his eyes so I carried him back. Summer, It's here, and the wind wants us to really pay attention. The summer is special to me because it is the time of the year when I entered th

As we walk through May, or as the Celts would be singing the Merry Month of May we would be acknowledging the beauty and fecundity of the lands we live.  We image flowers that emit invitations to the sensory world that we have ignored during our earlier season.  The sun shines, and we can't help be willing partners to the world of the living. The living world, if we are not blind reminds us of the feminine spirit of life that all of Creation celebrates.  Those of us that live in western society gives homage to mothers one day out of the year this coming Sunday.  Whereas in many Indigenous cultures women and those that gave birth are life givers were/are highly honored in a community always. They understood the continued pain and its triumph in bringing in the beauty of life and its care and attendance in which others may never know as the impetus of their life's passion. However, the women who have offered the care and attendance throughout their lives more often than not

I am very happy to announce that I recently published our first Divine Inspirations full monthly podcast on Anchor https://anchor.fm/divine-inspirations/episodes/Life-in-the-Aspergers-Jungle-with-Raven-Joy-e3pp3c  with my friend Raven Joy. Raven Joy and I met up briefly when I was living in Volcano Hawaii.  It has been about 13 years since then and fortunately, we have remained in contact. When I launched my first Divine Inspirations blog she responded to subscribe, which gave me the lead to ask her if I might interview her for a podcast.  I knew that she had a publishing company when she was in Hawaii and wrote a book and I was interested in discussing both the publishing company and her book, but she had also recently returned to her home in Pahoa after a plight of surviving through Madame Pele's (Hawaii's volcanic transformation).  We felt we should talk and find out what would be the best subject to discuss. Indeed, there was a lengthy discourse of the Volcanic event,

Divine Khepera When I wrote this it was Vernal Equinox 2019.  The Earth is definitely ready to burst anew with sunshine and smells, pollen and movement here in the Northern California Coast.  I have recently been reflecting on the image of the sun and the moon, their cyclical movement of time and experience as it is was also a full moon in Virgo and Sun in Pisces. The Egyptian Kheperi's image is forefront in my thoughts.  Kheperi in Egyptian literally means: He who is coming to Be"  The divine beetle traveling diligently to embed her eggs into the cow's dung and precisely rolling the dung upon the earth into a perfect orb is strikingly and astoundingly profound.  No wonder the ancient Egyptians held such esteem towards all living beings. As most Indigenous communities, the attitude towards living beings on the Earth was reverent and sacred knowledge was imbued through interaction with the experience or observation. Through the past (dung) we understand ourselves i

Dear Friends, Greetings in the depths of winter on our northern hemisphere homeland, mother Earth. Indigenous traditional practices acknowledge ancient wisdom of our ancestors through ceremony and intimate gatherings. Unfortunately many of us are far removed from our relatives and we have lost the traditions of coming together in the quiet to reminisce and reflect on our last year with the wisdom of Elders. Our Elders help direct our journeys into the forthcoming experience that would inevitably commence in Spring. So what do we do in this disconnected paradigm we find ourselves in? We turn to each other who seek the connections. As an Elder within my own community, now far removed, I continue to carry traditional practices. As an educator and minister, it gives me much fulfillment to share and join with others. Therefore, I created this blog to reach out to kindred spirits along this journey. To contribute to the education of humanity To inspire beauty and goodness To perpetu