Now, more than ever, self-care is essential. When we think of self-care we still think of massages, yoga classes, and margaritas after work, but the true meaning self-care is in its name: it is the care-taking of the self—spiritually, emotionally, and somatically, in whatever way you need. Maybe right now self-care looks like calling your doctor, or having an uncomfortable conversation with your partner, or
Corona is the Latin word for crown. When I first learned this I could feel my scorpio senses tingling, confirming my suspicion that the coronavirus pandemic had several spiritual lessons to teach. Later that day I attended a yoga class—the last before the studio decided to shut down—and the teacher announced that the focus would be on the crown chakra, the gateway of higher consciousness
I first met the Divine Feminine in a book. It was Goethe’s Faust, and after hundreds of pages of dense, bewildering story about the quest for power and knowledge, I had little hope for a good ending. But then I read its final two lines, and they changed my life: “The Eternal Feminine draws us onward.” I know some people insist that the Divine Feminine
When you pose a question for the tarot, have you ever wondered who you’re asking? Yes, it’s the reader who’s spreading out the cards, or a friend, or yourself, but who is it that’s offering an answer? Maybe you believe it’s your “spirit guides”, the unknowable, undefinable energetic emissaries that funnel messages to us from the Universe. Or perhaps you assume it’s the wisdom of
When I was a kid I could spend hours silently waiting to hear a whisper from God. I grew up vaguely Catholic, but the moment I “got” the ecstatic beauty and tragedy of what Christ actually embodied, I meant it. I went to church every Sunday, prayed dutifully before tests, closed my mopey 12 year old journal entries with, “Thank you, Lord.” I was, in