Complacency: The Silent Killer

Complacency: “–a feeling of calm or smug satisfaction with your abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder. –self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies, an instance of usually unaware or uninformed self-satisfaction.” It’s a false belief that you’re doing the right things to advance or improve/maintain your life when you’re really not. It’s a hostility to criticism, self-awareness, soul-searching and the “near…

Magic Messages from Frog

I had a visit from ‪Frog friend in the ‪garden tonight. Frog brings magic‬ messages about prosperity and abundance, transformation or transition, luck‬, spiritual cleansing and is the called the “singer of songs.” Frog shows up with a message for you when you are going through a transition, or possibly coming into your power in some way. Frog’s…

Awake, Aware and Able in a Crazy-ass World: Part 3 Shielding

A very large part of being Awake, Aware and Able is understanding, at a minimum, the very basics, of “energy” within at least our own anatomy and the way it is connected to everything else. Even if you aren’t an empath, healer, witch or shaman, you still  HAVE a bio-spiritual anatomy that circulates energy/frequency to and…

Awake, Aware and Able in a Crazy-ass World: Part 2 Self-Care

Part 2, Self-Care “It is better to give than receive” is an old saying that is by its nature, completely unsustainable, yet so many of us fall into the trap of it. We cannot fill from an empty cup, it is simply impossible. So many well-intentioned people give all that they have – to loved ones,…

The Magic of Washing Dishes

Doing dishes in itself is nothing – a blinding, busy chore that can even hold negativity or resentment at times (read: have you ever tried getting your teenagers to wash dishes?)  When performed with mindfulness and intention, however, it can become a small act of worship;  of consecration, a prayer of gratitude and praise toward…

On Practical Magic(k)*

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe Let’s be realistic, none of us has as much time or energy as we would like to devote to our spiritual practice. Okay MOST of us don’t. We live our lives racing from one busy task to the next, tending to…