Land ownership is a social construct. It is a societal agreement that only stands up if we all agree to it. And even then, we don’t have a claim to the land, only the right to use it. The idea that la...

Have you had an idea for a writing project knocking around in your head for a long while now and you feel like if you don’t get it onto the page you’re either going to forget about it or lose all your...

Like the seasons, human nature moves in cycles. Sometimes you cycle through a time in your life when you don’t have the energy anymore to hold onto things you were able to carry before and letting go ...

Have you ever been called an old soul? I bet you have. My mother always said I was an old soul and while I was visiting with her last week, she gave me a book to prove it. The Old Soul’s Guidebook by ...

Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. You may recall the Greek myth from 6^th grade Social Studies class. One day while the innocent maiden is out picking narcissus in an ethereal field of wi...

The sunflowers have dropped their heavy heads and gone to seed. Soon the frost will arrive with a frigid predawn kiss and the chill will wilt vegetables to black. The berries will freeze on their stal...

To Know the Dark

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark...

I hate change. It may be my Taurean moon, but changes feel annoying to me, like totally inconvenient, like why can’t things continue as expected and not throw me off my game kind of annoying. 

One ma...

We’ve all heard of ancestors, those that came before us and are now with us in spirit, but have you heard of Landcestors?

In June, my family went camping at Chaco Canyon. This historic park was at on...

Even though I love autumn, I feel bummed out as summer ends. The days are still long and hot here in New Mexico, but school is back in session and the energy of preparing for winter has already begun....

Remember your Saturn Return around the age of 28 (or maybe you’re experiencing it now), scrambling to find your place in the world without any sure footing and wondering if you’ll ever land or if you’...

In elementary school, I learned about the spiritual practice of talking to animals, communing with trees, calling on ancestors and general nature worship in regard to the Native Americans of lore. In ...