Category: spirituality
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Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It…
In order to truly thrive as an artist, your quest is to playfully engage your Younger Self on a regular basis. But how do you accomplish that in the course of your very full daily life? This is something I’ve been exploring in my personal and professional life for more than two decades. Over the course…
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Play Is Productive – Younger Self and Creativity
There’s a concept that I often share with my one-on-one book midwife clients and during various workshops. It comes from one of my favorite authors of all time, Starhawk. She’s a Pagan activist, writer, and leader of the Reclaiming tradition. I’ve read nearly all of her books, and recommend them highly. In her classic work…
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Why You Deserve More Ease In Your Life
Have you been brainwashed to struggle through life? How to tell: you begin your day tired and feeling like you’re already behind, you complain more often than you express your gratitude, you finish the day lamenting all the tasks that didn’t get done, and you wouldn’t describe your life as “fun” or “fulfilling.” You might…
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Water Priestess in Winter
First let me say that I love living in Maine. I adore the summer, the beaches, the lakes, the forests, the autumn, the mountains, cool people, spring flowers, and yes, even the snow. Mostly. As a Pagan priestess and a hippie chick, Earth-based spirituality is the way I live. I enjoy the turn of the…
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3 Tips for Loving What You Do
One of the best gifts I’ve given myself in my adult life is to do what I love, and love what I do. I’m not exaggerating when I say it has completely changed my life, in so many positive ways. It’s especially vital for creative types, and those drawn to spiritual matters – yeah, I’m…
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Starcat’s Ten Best Books of 2018
Hey there, bibliophiles! Before January is over (how did this month fly by so fast?!), it’s time to share my ten favorite reads from last year. In preparing this post, I noticed that I apparently didn’t create a “best books” post last January. Huh. I know I read some great books in 2017. Maybe I…
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Starcat’s Favorites: Transformation
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We’re already almost finished with the first month of 2019, but I’m finding that I’m still processing 2018. Can you relate? It was a hugely transformational year for me and my family. We became empty-nesters. Quester broke his ankle, badly, and had to have (not one but two) surgeries. BlackLion got a new job outside…
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An EASE-Filled 2019
This year’s word of the year was an easy choice – yeah, I confess, that’s a pun, but an incidental one. You see, my word for 2019 is EASE. If you’re a regular reader here, you’ll know that I’ve been working with the concept of ease & connection for several months now. In a July…
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I Am Hiding In My Tower
I Am Hiding In My Tower: A Prose Poem (for my Shadow) I’m really good at being unseen. I can walk down the street in broad daylight and not be noticed, if I want to. I can slip through a crowd with barely a ripple. I am the observer, and I see all that goes…
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It’s All One Thing
Lately I keep dreaming of girl babies. In the first dream, my daughter was a tiny child, and she was upset and crying. Most of the dream was about trying to find out what was wrong, and to soothe her. (I called my daughter the next day, just in case, and she’s fine). In the…