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I talk a lot about epiphanies – touches from divine source – and how, though they feel transformative, most often do not have lasting results because the way we live our lives does not support change. This is what I mean when I say we need to bring our lives into alignment with desire and will. The great American writer Jean Toomer states: We must not expect one act of liberation, one note of transformation, to produce a whole new being.It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystallize in us that for which we exist.The growth of a human being is a dynamic symphony of forces…

Find it in you, raise your eyesLook beyond the place you standTowards the furthest reachesAnd to the smallest of thingsThe sound you are hearingIs the symphony of what we areRevelation will not comeWith heart and mind closed and divided - VNV Nation, "Perpetual"I had a good weekend in Denver attending INATS, giving soul readings at SpiritWise and a talk at Isis. What I noticed most in my encounters this weekend is that many of us are at a cusp right now. We can choose to step fully forward, in all our parts, into our finest, boldest, most beautiful lives. But mostly, we hold ourselves back.

Our so called "negative emotions" can be great purifiers. Trouble with these emotions comes, for most of us, from one of two directions: we get trapped in them or we try to squash them into non-existence. We either give them pride of place or we diminish and trivialize them. Both of these give our anger, our sorrow, our sense of betrayal or loss far too much power. Both of these methods twist our hearts and souls. Allowing these emotions into our lives, however, so that we can experience them fully and seek the lessons they are pointing to is of great help to us. In this way, anger, jealousy,…

I feel grateful to be Pagan after a day like yesterday, which was spent in a park amongst towering redwoods, singing the union of two couples who were pledging to each other for a year and a day. Their children were assured of a continuing firm foundation as the married partners in each couple pledged love and support to their partners in the other couple. Yes, a foursome was handfasted. The priest officiating the ceremony called their union a Quadriga, after the ancient chariot drawn by four horses, all pulling in the same direction.We celebrate love in many forms of expression. I feel…

What burns in me, today, like the sun reaching for full height and the earth seeking out that warm embrace? And conversely, what tilts from light on some internal, Southern shore, throwing parts of me into deep shadow? I am the sun, and I am questing for the sun. Every cell inside relates me to this fact: the earth moves, and the sun is standing still. The earth revolves, and the sun burns. What inside of me feels strong? What in me dances and reaches like the mighty trees and flowers?Outside my window, the sun seems on the rise. Where am I in relation to my soul? Something too, is rising.