Earth-Centered Practices and Ceremonies

Why are we here?
To become ever more fully our truest, deepest, most authentic self, the unique person we were born to be.

What else could be the answer to this ages-old question? Only when we completely inhabit our real Self will we be able to consistently love, think, feel, create, and co-create with others in satisfying, life-enhancing ways. When we can really sink into who we fundamentally are, as an ongoing way of being, then the rest of our mission in the physical and spiritual worlds, whether grand or humble, can joyously emerge. [Read more…] about Getting Seated in Gaia

The great, vast being of Gaia is continuously generating a force that creates and evolves life on all levels. I call this force the Green Force. It’s the force that brings plants up from under asphalt streets, that sets seeds growing on bare sand. It is, in Dylan Thomas’s memorable words, “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

The Green Force energizes and expresses the entire organic continuum of birth, growth, flowering, ripening, maturing, declining, dying, decomposing and giving birth again—the dynamic, ever-renewing process that we call Life. As we know, plants get their energy directly from the sun, from photosynthesis that takes place in the plants’ chlorophyll, their green pigments. Then animals (including us humans) eat the plants, and/or eat animals that eat the plants. Even the strange and mysterious fungi and bacteria beings “eat” the remains of dead plants and animals. So each one of us, each living being on Mother Earth, literally partakes of Gaia’s Green Force as an intimate and basic part of our day-to-day survival. [Read more…] about The Green Force

At my altar recently, I heard: The power of Blessing belongs to everyone. Use it well and often. Let it arise in a heart rooted in the Sacred Land.

Soon after that, I went up into the Jemez Mountains, to a beautiful place by the river where my family used to camp when I was a little girl. (I’d sleep right on the ground in my sleeping bag, without even a pad between me and the earth.) I received this from the beings of the land there: [Read more…] about The Art of Blessing