Spring and early summer are times for Those Who Fly to build their nests and have their babies. This year it seems we have a maternity ward surrounding our home. We have the usual bird parents: Cardinal, Finch, Robin, Oriole and Warblers. There is a new addition that we have not seen here before, Cat…
Sitting in the Cat Bird Seat
Sacred Drum Making with A Daughter
So many of you know how much my life, both personal and professional, has shifted over the last few months. I have taken some time to step back from active teaching and traveling to teach because my Mom needs me home with her. This past weekend, I had the pleasure and honor to teach a…
Winter Solstice 2013
On the Medicine Wheel, the Winter Solstice rides the cross winds of the Wheel. The crosswinds of the Winter Solstice are at the Northwest of the Medicine Wheel. I have written and taught about the Solstices and Equinoxes in past and I still am in awe of their deep meaning. In my experience of…
Emotional and Mental Healing with Essential Oils
The key element to living and creating your life from your heart is healing your emotional and mental traumas. We have offered many different perspectives regarding this kind of healing in past blog posts. I have found that we all have help from nature through essential oils. The plant’s life force is in essential oils and its…
Keeping Secrets, Is it a Good Thing??
Do you keep secrets? Who do you keep secrets for and why? Keeping secrets can show your maturity, but keeping secrets can also inhibit healing of traumas. We also should look at who do we keep secrets for and why. The secrets we keeping that are positive should be positive for the all involve. When…
Autumn Equinox – The Beginning of the Hero’s Journey
Preparing for the Autumn Equinox tomorrow, Sunday, September 22, I am guided to re-read some of my past blog articles that I wrote about past Autumn Equinoxes. I had not realized that I have been writing about Equinoxes and Solstices for nearly a decade. It’s funny how fast the years past and we don’t really…
Knowing When to Let Go and Start Anew
As we move into autumn, we leave behind the bold energy of summer and begin to enter the gathering of what we planted in the spring be that a garden or a project. The autumn brings the aroma of new pencils as a new school year begins; it brings cooler nights as all things green…
Elderly Parents and the Native American Medicine Wheel
I have been immersed in the energies of the northern part of the Medicine Wheel in the past few days. The north is represented by the Elders and wisdom. Yesterday, August 17, would have been my Dad’s 91st birthday if he were still physically here with us. Even though he Walked On in 2010, when…
Sacred Geometry and the Beat of a Drum
Between the beats of a drum refers to the dynamic area where magic occurs. I have come to learn that we are attracted to things like flower essences, drumming, the use of sacred bells or the use of certain crystals because at a soul level we are responding to that items particular and individual vibration. Like…
I Love Life and Life Loves Me
Don’t you just love summer!? In the northern hemisphere, July is at the high point of summer. Flower gardens are in full bloom, and vegetable gardens are giving their first morsels. The Potawatomi Nation calls the month of July, Blueberry month, as this is when blueberries are ripe to pick in Wisconsin. On the Medicine…