Heart of Gaia

Hello Fellow Travelers,  I've been traveling over the last week. I am delighted to be home in my sanctuary and also delighted to have traveled.Traveling to the US Nation's capitol, to a place where I used to make my home, in a suburb that is within 20 miles of Washington DC, is always a bit jolting. The energies are so very different in this place of my past, from the energies of this place of my present,  and yet what I noticed this trip, most of all, was the kindness shown, the hearts trying to be open and the courage and fortitude blasting forth. I noticed the tenacity and the diligence of everyday people, doing everyday things, with great pride and focus.  What I have taken away from my visit to this highly charged, politically activated center of our country is that we do indeed have the power.  The power I witnessed came from the mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfather's of the children who waited for the bus each morning alongside my own grandchil...

Dearest Fellow Travelers, Self-Care tip of the week is an important ingredient in making lasting change, getting through this stretch on your path, and ensuring a healthy future. Tenderness. The art of Self-care requires daily doses of tenderness. Tenderness expressed outwards, gives way to the deep and lasting shifts that are occurring within. Tenderness expressed towards Self, in all ways, creates room for the rush of the waters of re-birth, opens stretches of possibility and releases the past like no-other medicine. Tenderness is a most self loving Self-care medicine. Self-care is the art of listening to your soul's voice, and taking action on what you hear. Self-care is caring for all aspects of your life and all aspects of your being. Self-care requires lavish amounts of tenderness in thought and deed. What happens when you turn a tender touch towards another? What happens when the mind stops analyzing and criticizing, judging and condemning for a moment? What happens in tha...

Dearest Fellow Travelers,  Middle of the week energy update for all of you who are devoted to making this world a better place. We always start with ourselves, and Self Care is how we are able to go bravely forward during times like these. For the next two weeks, we are all under the spell of the New Moon in Libra.  Turning inward, during this time was a very brave thing to do, for the Libra Moon cast shadows on whatsoever was greatly out of balance, in need of immediate attention and maybe even some dreaded, but necessary action. Moon casting is an art that has been passed down from generation to generation, through our ancestors, through our blood, bones and dna. It is the ability to use the moon as a guide to the changing tides within us, the ebb and flow and to connect with the subtle rhythms of our bodies, minds and lives. It is a directional tool, that will make our lives into that which we need them to be. Supportive, nourishing and flourishing actions are now ready t...

Dearest Fellow Travelers, Don't give up. Don't give in. Instead look up. Things are about to change. Can you feel it? Change is in the wind, the earth, and your heart. Change is in the trees, the flowers and our gardens. Change is a slow and steady stream of love and it is heading your way. Something really, really good is right in front of you. Take part, take charge and take advantage of the change of total goodness that is arriving for you. Change can be a way to self care. Expecting the best from the changes to come is good self care. Using change as an agent to bring a deeper level of self care is wise.  As the season changes from ever growing summer to the release of fall, how might you use this time to honor the changes occurring in your life? Letting the ripe fruit of your life, fall gently from it's place and nourish you, is a way to honor change and use it for self care. Letting change nurture you and guide you is self care. Following the natural rhythms o...

Dearest Fellow Travelers, Exploring Truth and Purpose through Self-Care continues.  Self Care rituals help build a strong foundation in which you may return over and over again. The foundation holds that which supports you in your Truth and Purpose. Living in your Truth, and with Purpose, is a day to day process of Self Realization, Self Love, Self Value, Self Appreciation and Self Acceptance. It is the key that unlocks your Light and lifts you up into a more fulfilling moment to moment experience of this sacred journey called life. Truth requires a knowing of who you are. Truth is the opportunity to feel your feelings and let them inform you. Feelings will inform you of what you may need as you walk your path. Feelings can guide and direct you inward for some soul searching and truth telling. In order to honor your feelings, and give them the healthy space they need so they may inform you regarding your greatest good, a base of Self Care is necessary. From this base or foundati...

Dear Fellow Travelers, Self Care to Self Love continues. The need to care for yourself is as important as your breath. The act of caring for your self is as daring as walking into a dark forest without a light. The continuous engagement in self care will wrap you in love and continuously strengthens your light so that when you find yourself in dark forests, whether in your own mind or emotions, of your own making or life circumstances, you will undoubtedly have a way through. Your own inner light thrives in an environment of self care, thus creating more opportunities that will support you in healing, growing, learning, living in love and joy. Acts of Self Care create a force field around you too. The surest way to change that which does not lend itself to joy in your life, or to solve an ongoing issue, or to release and clear old emotional/mental patterns of sabotage and pain, or to heal from trauma, grieve with purpose, be a more brilliant light, live your truth, discover you...

Dearest Fellow Travelers, May you be inspired this week with deep and soul-full rest. May you then be inspired with deep and gentle self care. There is no other way to traverse this realm of life than to take self care to the limits of what you formerly thought of as self care. Go through the doorway and walk into the light of taking gentle, soul-full, care of your self. Others will notice and secretly be inspired. Those are the fellow travelers that get to travel next to you. If others notice and become upset in any way at you for taking care of you, then they are not your fellow travelers. They are not on the same energetic vibrational reality as you are. Treat yourself and them accordingly.  Dance, smile, and walk away, through the doorway and into the light of gentle, soul-full self care. Walking away is self care. Staying away is self care. Tending to your heart and soul in gentle, loving kindness is self care. Praying is self care. Playing is self care. Reading and writi...