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Chinese New Year and the Elements
Wishing you a happy Yin Wood Snake year! The Chinese New Year officially begins on Wednesday, January 29th, 2025. This is the when the second new moon after the winter solstice falls. Because it follows a lunar cycle, the start date differs year to year according to our solar calendar. So February 4th is often Continue reading
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Stepping into the New
As you read this, you are stepping into the new. As in a new year, and also a new time. A new time for the United States, and also – maybe – a new time for you as well. Of course, every morning when we wake up, we are stepping into the new. A new Continue reading
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Making Peace with my Namesake
I have been feeling a call to return to Scotland for a few years. This is because of some unfinished business I know I had with this land. Business that is ancestral, in part. And also having to do with my relationship with the place I was named for – the Isle of Skye. A Continue reading
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Honoring the Mountain, Honoring the Water
Imagine partying non-stop for a month, as a sacred act. That’s what goes on throughout much of the Ecuadorian Andes starting on the summer solstice. In a tradition that extends back to long before the Inca in this part of the globe, communities and villages celebrate Inti Raymi, or the sun festival long and hard. Continue reading
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Crystal Message for Keene #2
I come to tell your community that the time of the clans and cliques is done. It is time to unite, to come together with gentle words and without undue strife. To forward collectively the cause of this land, which is to protect the energies of the mountains, lakes and rivers. You are a valley, Continue reading
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Crystal Message for Keene #1
I am a crystal so bright – who will accompany your community All day and all night. All through the hard times, The sad times to come, If you call upon my radiant red light I will beam bright upon you – With malice unto no one. I come to tell you to believe That Continue reading
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Prayer for my Community
PRAYER FOR MY COMMUNITY Sharing a prayer I wrote for a ceremony that will appear in the 2016 WE ‘Moon Agenda. Dear community, we come to you small spirits on a winding path at the turning of these days, at the changing of the cycles. Please open the way for our small and humble Continue reading
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The Peace Tree – Episode #2
One year ago, I wrote my monthly column about the peace tree in Keene: a special elm sapling donated to a state-wide peace conference held in Keene in 2012. At the opening ceremony of this conference, we made a blessing for peace over a large bucket of sacred water and all the participants offered small Continue reading
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