Art in Nature: Openings to the sea

Art in Nature: Openings to the sea

    OPENINGS TO THE SEA: Summer Solstice 6/1/1983   Once again, I was returning to sand rituals at summer solstice, a pattern that would continue. When my son travelled to stay with his father for the first part of each summer, I took up residence in...
Season of release

Season of release

    Autumn is a season of release. Leaves fall, light fades, crickets slow down then cease their song, the days shorten, and flowers drop into the earth.   I’m in the flow of the season, letting go of small things (and some big), taking stones to...
Aligning with the season

Aligning with the season

    How do you bring yourself into alignment with the season?   Which season? If you are in the northern hemisphere you will be in autumn right now, and approaching Halloween, Samhain, the festival of the dead, at the end of October. So here’s...
How to birth in a bumpy spring

How to birth in a bumpy spring

Pregnant in Paris: that was me in 1970, with not a female relative in sight. How could I prepare myself to give birth to my baby? I took refuge in books on natural childbirth. And that’s when I discovered that ‘transition’ is a critical phase in the birthing...
Outer to inner

Outer to inner

Here in Aotearoa the autumn rains have fallen — without a doubt — and the season has shifted abruptly. What is your response? I breathed a sigh of relief when the autumn rains first began (not knowing at that stage just how torrential and persistent they would be)....