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As we move into December, I feel myself yearning for the silence of winter. In the old way, winter was a time of sitting around the fire and listening to each other. The elders would tell the old stories, passing along their wisdom to the young.

Everyone knew this was a time of deep listening, which is one of the guiding principles of peacemaking.

Listening deeply with a quiet mind allows you to be open, connect to the person speaking, and look for understanding.

This type of respectful co…

Peacemaking is such an important part of how we live together on this earth. In challenging situations, some might find it stressful to implement the tools of peacemaking with others. When I feel this energy in my own life, I breathe and remember one important phrase: “Peacemaking begins within.”

Are you making peace with yourself?

When we find it challenging to make peace with others, it could be because we haven’t made peace within ourselves.

Assume positive intent: Am I assuming positiv…

Sacred Commerce comes with doing what you love and receiving compensation. We talk a lot about clearing blocks and allowing abundance to flow in. This is the In-Breath. To be in balance, we also need to realize the importance of the Out-Breath. The Out-Breath of Sacred Commerce means using your resources to support others who are doing what they love. An important part of the Out-Breath of Sacred Commerce is trusting in the flow, knowing the universe will continue to provide what is needed. When…

I’ve been noticing and feeling the energies of division in our culture, and our world. At times it feels as though we are moving backward in our quest for a more unified and peaceful world. When I feel this way, it’s time to look within and see where I am creating disruption within myself and my world.

This reflection brings me back to Peacemaking. 

I first learned about Peacemaking from Jon Young, founder of 8 Shields.  Peacemaking, as it was first taught to me, is a deep tradition with an…

A large part of the mystic path and sacred commerce is exploring the dance between the divine feminine and the divine masculine. The divine feminine brings ease, grace and flow. The divine masculine stresses achievement and acquisition, going and doing.

When in balance, the energies of divine feminine and divine masculine combine to move into meaning, connection, love and incentives that go beyond the bottom line. We begin to tap into what is needed for people and the planet.

This dance of b…

I recently had a conversation with a friend of mine who was putting together a teleseminar.

“I had five women signed up for my seminar,” she said. “But, I wanted more. I remembered what you told me about the prism process and thought I’d give it a try.”

She told me how she had drawn a wheel on a sheet of paper and put the names of the five women registered for the class in the circle.  Then, she wrote the names of two others who had expressed interest but not registered yet.

“I wrote the n…

As you might imagine, I am passionate about the subject of manifestation and coming into alignment with your desires and intentions.

I work with women and groups to demystify “manifestation” and offer practical real-world techniques that strengthen our power of intention, focus our actions, and truly improve the results of our efforts to invoke our power to shape the world.

In my work with women, one of the most important things I remind them of is that manifestation is not something OUTSI…

I recently shared on the Mystics Facebook page a post addressing the concept of the “Village Ideal.” This ideal suggests it “takes a village” to raise a child. But in today’s world, it is a rare mom who actually has a village to rely on. Somewhere between “It takes a village” and today’s picture of single moms struggling to make a better world for their children is a new (or ancient?) mothering paradigm I call Mystic Motherhood. Mystic Motherhood demands both an intentional inquiry into our own …

There are so many myths surrounding Tarot. One of them is that it is completely magical and mystical and other-worldly. Where that is true, we don’t realize that there is also a very real and practical and THIS-worldly side to it as well.

Tarot shows us the journey of humans that is transcendent of time and space. It shows us the ups and downs, the challenges and celebrations, the motivations and resistance that we all face in our lives.

To me, these are Universal Truths … regardless of the f…