But when the wrong person uses the right means, the right means have the wrong effect. Chinese Proverb
For every Evil under the sun, there is a remedy, or there is none. If there be one, seek till you find it; If there be none, never mind it. Mother Goose A moment in time, to show up or to disappear. I believe that if we all elevated our consciousness and stood firm in nurturing a healthier culture, change would follow. It will happen; it is just a matter of when. The Ruth Asawa exhibit was an example to me of how she had something to say and a pattern she had to express. She created, over and over again, a message without a direct voice. I think this kind of work can influence karma and change the landscape for the next generations. You can be part of this kind of movement; it is a matter of what you choose to focus on and where you put your Shen.…
The year of the Yang Fire Horse is coming, and we are wrapping up the Year of the Yin Wood Snake. I am grateful to be slithering out of 2025. There is something about the full tilt energy of a galloping horse that really appeals to me. It is going to be a furious year of change, and a lot of what the fuck is happening? I would rather that kind of shift than waiting and shedding, the previous snake and rabbit years. We’d better fasten our seatbelts. “We take turns fucking up. We take turns getting it right. That is how it goes, I guess.” Lidia Yuknavitch In history, the years of the Horse, especially the Fire Horse, there have been wars, earthquakes, and all manner of big changes. There are also significant advancements in many areas in Horse years. You can tell that things are just falling apart…
a favorite bumper sticker. I was just telling a friend, I am not an exceptional writer, but I am a singular thinker. The writing is just the vehicle to get my notions accessible. I challenged myself over the years to not get invested in the thinking, to not let my ego be attached to the words on the paper or how people interpret the information. I was talking to an artist the other night and asking her specifically how she handles the response to her work. This was because there were some people at her show that evening, saying that her work “wasn’t really art” ( straight from the Witch of the Waste’s mouth). The artist herself yelled “making work is for the artist and not for the viewer or the critic. You put your work out for yourself and not for anyone else.” The luxury of making something and…
Whilst we experience, the decolonization of normalcy. Stop selling me shit and pretending you have the key to satisfaction. Idiot happiness is not a real thing. Living a joyful life, is an everyday and attainable goal. This is the time of change, but more importantly it is really a time of transformation. You might say they are the same phenomena, but transformation is an alchemical process. Where you change into something different, not a shift from one form of energy to another. This is a big difference between the elements in Chinese medicine and the Spirits. The Spirits are concerned with the ephemeral, the not concrete stuff. This is the year of the Wood Snake, shed the skin and become something new. I think there are many elements and stages to transformation, as I see it, you know yourself and be yourself first. Then you can move towards a…
The Summer is winding down, the weather is a little cooler at night. We hear the cicadas singing in the evening. Goldenrod will make it’s appearance shortly. We shift from Yang Fire time to Earth time, the season of harvest. Now is when we traditionally start to talk about mother energy, Earth medicine. The sacred mother. The one great mother. AS we war out the ego of patriarchy, in this gruesome battle for power, filled with violence and dominance, I cannot help thinking that the sacred feminine inside me and inside you, is the heart of true power. Love itself, nourishing and accepting, but make no mistake, crazy fucking powerful. Hag energy: I know myself, I love myself, I trust myself. I am a powerhouse and I will love and protect my children fiercely. The ego wants to dominate and destroy because it is afraid, it lacks the inner structure,…
“ Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth.” Naomi Nye The size of the cloth, a behemoth, one can’t see the edges any longer, as it unravels on one end and is stitched together hastily on the other side. A temporary solution, that does not have any vision or long term planning involved. We are going break neck speed, to quickly meet a wall. Is our country such a mess because we can’t feel the pain? Are the people in politics verging on mental illness because they are unable to grief? If we allow the sorrow into our lives, and process it in bits, will that alter our trajectory as a nation?…
“The way out is IN.” Dolores Cannon At this moment in history aside from protesting, calling senators and congressmen and women, talking about what is happening in our country openly, and donating to organizations that work for the greater good. We need to expand our process of reclamation to include inner work. If you take a look at history, there is always a push and pull. A constant fight for consciousness, and the tiny victories come with great sacrifice. There are many predications that our country is entering a great decline, of resources, of morality of the comforts that we have grown accustomed. Chogyam Trungpa, Ra Uru Hu, Vanessa Machado de Oliveir, Frances Weller, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Holly Turhlar, Charles Eisenstein, Marianne Williamson, bell hooks, Malidoma Patrice Some, Sobonfu Some, A New Possibility, Alok, American Resiliency, Karen Curry Parker, Thich Nhat Hanh, Nate Hagens, Western astrology (entering into the…
Menopause is not a problem, it doesn’t have to be fixed. It is a process that needs support. Menopause is called the Second Spring in Chinese Medicine. Because it is another cycle of blossoming for women , a renewal of wisdom. A time to embody and own your feminine power. There are sometimes disconcerting symptomology that accompany the perimenopause and menopausal cycles, they need support from herbs, acupuncture, lifestyle adjustments, and emotional/psychological/spiritual counseling. But nothing is wrong with this process. We need to reframe how we think about biological functioning for women. Once, we label menopause as bad or wrong we have to rush to fix it. Instead of embracing the process and taking time to address imbalances and let change happen. If we think of this process as un-natural then we are saying that being a woman and everything that happens in her lifecycle is also wrong. This erroneous…
“Every initiation brings one to the precipice of death”. Frances Weller I spent the month of March grieving, preparing myself to move into the month of April with an activeness that did justice to the Wood season. I was waiting for change. I thought it would come this month. tick tick, still waiting.. Our situation is bleak, more desperate than I wanted to admit to myself. I think that one of the only things that will help would be to for everyone to leap into action and start fighting back on every level, on any level. I read a study once that documented how delayed the reaction time is in an emergency. If the smoke alarms were blaring in the library people will actually slow down, and pick up another book, instead of moving quickly to the fire exits. Now, the smoke alarms are going off. In my experience with…