Category: Trees

Early Monday morning, in clouded darkness misted by rain, two hundred people gathered at the Port of Tacoma to block the gates to a construction site. Puget Sound Energy, a utility company that is now owned by a profitable group of private equity firms, leased this land to build a huge plant to process and …

Fall Equinox is the time when the sun moves from the sign of the healer (Virgo) to the sign of the scales, balance, justice (Libra). The connection between healing and justice has never been more clear than today. President Trump and Republicans in Congress, at the behest of the billionaire donors who set their legislative …

The events of the last week in our country call forth anger, anxiety, fear, dread. What will happen next? Will our terribly unfit President finally be removed from office? Will the investigations produce the needed evidence? What will it take for those in power who support him to see how dangerous he is? Does the …

At Bealtaine we transition from the quiet, inward activities of the cold months to a vibrant focus on the world blooming around us. Bealtaine (pronounced BYAL-teh-neh in Irish), celebrated in the US as May Day, initiates the light half of the year (samos) in the Celtic calendar. Flowers lure bees and other pollinators with showy, …

As soon as the tip of my shovel cut a small crescent in our front lawn, I knew I had forgotten something important. I stopped digging and listened. The hole was for a rosebush we had bought months ago from a friend who was moving. I found the rose fertilizer, paced out the distance from …

What was happening in your life in the spring of 1996?  What seeds did you plant, and which ones are emerging now, 17 years later, in the heat and light of Solstice? Three weeks ago, we were in New York City visiting our son and his girlfriend, who live in Washington Heights, the northernmost part …

  May 1st is Bealtaine (Irish for Beltane, literally “bright fire”), the first day of summer on the Celtic calendar.  The energy of this sacred day is bright, expansive, and sensual.  Traditionally the Bealtaine fire was lit on the Hill of Uisneach and carried from there to a unifying “web of fires” throughout the land.  …

Anyone reading this likely knows that the way we humans are currently living on and with the Earth is unsustainable.  If you need a wake-up call, read Wen Stephenson’s recent article about global warming in the Boston Phoenix. The natural tendency is to look away, to not see what is happening, because it’s too overwhelming.  …

What does it mean to dream with the Earth?  To understand this way of dreaming, one must step out of Western thinking and learn the ancient ways of the indigenous peoples of the world.  This takes time, patience, and a willingness to go beyond one’s comfort zone.  To read more about what a shamanic approach …

Welcome to my new blog!  I have been writing in it for over a month now, and it’s time to share it with others.  Each post will focus on the ways that dreams and waking life are woven together.  Our dreams offer us deep and helpful guidance that we often misunderstand or ignore.  By sharing …