Reordering My Heart: December Reflections

Something I’ve increasingly noticed over the past few years is a calling to turn inward come December.

As the sun rises a little later and the ocean crashes with more ferocity at night, I feel a soulful need to take inventory, reflect, and close things out as the end of the year draws near, as if I’m clearing space from my inner worktable of psyche and soul.

Sometimes, I make lists in my journal, going month by month or grouping things by quarter and writing down the major themes, occurrences, and lessons. It’s my way of putting a mile marker on my journal page and acknowledging, “I was here..”

Working with Signs Symbols & Archetypes

Recently I taught a class on signs, symbols and archetypes where we explored how to work with signs to strengthen our intuitive knowing and spiritual connection.

We talked about how we need to open ourselves to receiving guidance in this form, so we are actually paying attention when the guidance shows up.

We talked about how interpreting signs is where many of us get stuck, because we want to know what something means instantly, instead of allowing the meaning to unfold and inform us…

52 Weeks (or The Time I Chose to Follow My Dreams)

I have a tradition that I do around Memorial Day each year. It began in 2016. Memorial weekend was a total gift that year. I’d just lost Brent that January, and after a long, cold, grief filled winter, the warm sunshine and blue skies that graced the last bit of May were medicine for my heart.

So were the flowers I bought in profusion that weekend. Cherry blooms, daffodil buds, purple pansies spilling out of their baskets— I turned the front porch and back patio into an enchanted garden, and I spent Memorial Day sitting on my porch in the sunshine, writing, drawing and enjoying time with my husband and our fur kids.

I was going through a deep process of transformation at the time…