Alone In Her Presence: Ecstatic Monism – All Goddess…
I am an ecstatic monist, and I know there are many like me who are something like "spiritual but not religious" and not quite Wiccan, who are not Neo Goddess Feminist but are living in the lap of the...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Earth’s Saving Message
As I lean into the invitation of Earth's promise to renew, there is a certainty that now is the hour to commit to Earth with a saving message. I choose to enter covenant with Earth as Mother Goddess...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: On Death – Riding Shakti’s Great Exhale
Death kindly seems to be stopping everywhere I look these days, in the faces of those whom I adore and care for, and in the hearts and minds of many within the world: death of loved ones, death of...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Embodied Living, Tantra and I?
Tantra is the magic of transformation. It is the magic of bringing self into alignment and aligning our hearts with the Goddess as both the Immanent love that flows in, among, and around us, and also...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Choosing Love Over Fear
When I speak of love, it is not abstract, and it is not romantic or romanticized. It is action that is holy.
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: The Goddess Is In The Dirt
For years, I heard the Christian expression to ‘lean on God’ in times of struggle, strife, and turmoil. But for many, and for centuries, that God isn't or wasn't an option. What if there was another...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Harvesting Under the Blood Moon
The Blood Moon is rising today, and this lunar eclipse, like Earth’s changing season, is an example of how the universe can perfectly align. Let us embrace this powerful moment to create practices and...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Halloween – Inviting the Secular
Personally, I like my Halloween with green faced ‘witches’ and candy corn, trick or treating, and carved pumpkins. Oh, how I love candy corn and a jack-o-lantern! Sure, some of those items have...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: When Love Takes Over
It's complicated, it always is, when we choose to be part of the solution on any issue. It's about bringing love into the dialogue. When I write about love, I am writing about that complicated driving...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Dark Moon Rising…“What’s Your Ritual?”
The moon is a great place to turn for magic. I find the Dark Moon, as the great transformer, to be the best motivator of intention as we transform and transmute our lives in our walk. Here is my Dark...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Lou Florez – The Cultural Exchange of a Lifetime
This is our moment as a community to invest in an exchange. Lou and his trip to Nigeria is destiny manifested. This is one culture exchange I think will heal past wounds of slavery and oppression,...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Emmanuel, A Love Divine
I have no faith in a child who would become a prophet that empowered patriarchy, but I do take comfort in love: that we are all born into this Love, the currency of peace.
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Just Breathe, The Practice of Permission, Affirmation,...
The new year is upon us. This is the time of resolutions and promises to self often forgotten by February. But what if the commitment to self was more empowered, and leaned into the invitation of the...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Letting Go – The Practice from Hostage to Hopeful
Letting go might be the hardest thing to put into practice. There are many things in our daily life, both material and immaterial, that we attach to. For some of us, it is the expectation to live our...
View ArticleGreen Tara, The Practice of Releasing Suffering
In my chanting practice I serve as Tara's agent, absorbing the suffering of others and lifting them up to Tara, where she transmutes the suffering and transforms it into blessings. My work with Goddess...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Heart Leads the Way – The Practice of Loving Kindness
The universe has an odd way of inviting me to question deeper. As I sat down to write today, the tea bag in my cup of tea offered this wisdom, " Let your heart speak to other's hearts." And I thought...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: An Open Heart and a Naked Soul
I have come to know the Goddess as the vessel of our most intimate self. Whether in worship, public ritual, or alone in her presence what the Goddess has provided me is a vessel. Sometimes this is a...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Turning In to Turn Back Out
I wonder how many of us are in need of turning back in just a little bit? Not depressed, or sad, we are living full and meaningful lives, but we've lost connection. In times like this the only thing I...
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Caitlyn Jenner and Still Knowing Goddess
When Caitlyn Jenner appeared today on the the cover of Vanity Fair, and my first thought was "This too, is Goddess."
View ArticleAlone In Her Presence: Paganism’s Permission to Dare
What is distinct about Paganism is that we have no litmus test for belief entry. Personally, I'm not deeply invested in what anyone believes, not my editor Jason Mankey or my fellow writer John...
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