Walking In Beauty

May Abundance and Joy

Flow Through Our Lives

Like a Wild Untamed River.

Welcome

   I describe myself as an artist, gardener, Heathen and Witch. I have been consciously involved with Mystery and the Spirit Peoples for over thirty years. My roots spring from the balance between the wild and the domestic, art, gardening, Queer Spirit, Hedge Witchery, runes, hiking, deep dreaming, shamanic visioning, cooking, clan-hold magics and the exploration of the sacred realms of sex and pleasure. I am committed to the building and nurturance of the emerging Cultures of Beauty, Balance and Delight. I suspect that it is high time that we choose to take on the continual acts of creation needed to build these sustainable ways of life. I know in my bones and blood, that we all have the power to bring these emerging cultures into our daily lives. I also know that we are all Shapers-with (Co-creators) of the Multiverse. I am no longer willing to wait for some nebulous future revolution to begin to live a life fully awake, aware and rooted in the Earth, embracing pleasure, love and wonder.

    I begin each day with this prayer;

“I dare to dwell in beauty, balance and delight.

I dare to see with clear eyes and an open heart.”

    And then I make my bed as an act of devotion to life.

    It brings me great pleasure to encourage folks to dare to embrace their own authentic selves, remembering that they are their own authorities and that no matter what situation we may find ourselves in, we can always choose to experience the beauty and wonder that surrounds us. I suspect that when a community of authentic selves come together with clear intent and purpose, that that community then truly enters the Realms of All Possibility and their dreams become flesh and bone, earth and stone, fully manifested in Midgard. I also suspect that that community will actively begin to free itself from the toxic addiction we call rugged individualism, claiming our heritage rooted in healthy family, clan and tribe.

    I have taught for over twenty years in the Reclaiming Witch Style; in my local communities, at Reclaiming Witch Camps, at Radical Faerie,  Queer Shaman, Pagan and men’s gatherings and at other events throughout North America and Great Britain. I am an initiate of the Reclaiming Witch Tradition, the Queer Mysteries, the Cult of the Bear and other shamanic/hedge rider paths. I am an experienced rune worker who also practices the ever evolving forms of contemporary seidhr work. I have been studying and working with the Ancestors intensively for over fifteen years. I also practice such standard Witch Priestess work as officiating at marriages, funerals, baptisms, wiccanings and house blessings. I have been declared an elder by many of my Witch and Queer Spirit communities and am continually learning what this joyful obligation entails.   

    I am a mystic that is in continual conversation with Mystery; listening, analyzing and recording the information and discussions I am privy to. I practice the ways of the Pagan Prophet and Seer. Another way of saying that, is that I not only pass on what the Mysterious Ones have been talking about and the visions that They present to me, I also name possible results/outcomes of choices based on said information from Mystery, leaving the final choices/interpretations of all materials up to the human folks I am working with.

    Some of the Mysterious Ones that are part of my day to day life are Grandmother Bear, Ing, Hera, The Red Dragon, Freya, Bridget, Inanna, Idunna, Kwan Yin and the Queer Gods: Purple God, Green God, Golden God and Singing Bear. One of my current understandings around the Mysterious Ones, is that some of Them are members of my family and hearth-clan. Others are dear friends and allies. And some of Them are teachers from other clans and tribes who come to teach me special lessons. My relationships with the Mysterious Ones become more rich and complicated the older I get, not unlike my relationships to the human beings with whom I interact on our Good Green Earth. I am coming to understand this as yet one more expression of

‘as above, so below,

as below, so above’.

    In short, after all of these years of spirit work, I only know that these two things are core to an sustainable integrated spiritual life here in Midgard, or I suspect, anywhere else;

Change is the only constant in the multiverse.

Love and compassion are central to everything.

    I have lived my whole life in my beloved Prairies. My husband Mark, and our current home/gardens (it names itself Hector) is in Minneapolis, Minnesota, North America, nestled in the arms of the Upper Mississippi Valley.

    May we all dare to dwell in Beauty, Balance and Delight.

    Bless the Bees.

    Bless the Bears.

    Bless the Cherry Trees.

    By the way folks, you are welcomed to use my content as long as you remember to credit me for the work.

   Warning: If you do not give me credit, this could happen to you!