It came to me while doing a bit of writing a week or so ago, that the circle we cast for doing magical work is not only a container and a protector, but a time travel device. It’s all in how you program it, I think. The circle is a little piece of sacred real […]
Your heart should always arrive before your head. It’s an old Sufi saying, and I don’t know who actually said it. In fact, it’s such an obscure saying that a Google search results in cardiopulmonary results and nothing about Sufis at all. Sheesh. But let that roll though your heart, and spin it on up […]
I’ve been thinking about mythology and folk music and how intertwined they really are. Define folk music, you say. Yes, that’s reasonable. My definition of folk music is anything that actually about someone’s life: love, work, dreams, kids, home, family, connectedness to others, to nature, to whatever passes for God, loss, pain, fear, pride, trauma, […]
Ryan Rumery, g Alma Drake, Miss Christine. Hey, Frienily, it’s recovery day, after the recording, but I thought I’d take a minute (or a few) to let you know how it all went. First of all, I think this is the record I’ve been wanting to make my whole life. The grooves were sick. The pocket […]
Alchemy is much misunderstood, usually over-simplified, and frequently used badly out of context – all to the fierce detriment of an amazing tradition. Very rarely these days does anyone actually study the true art, because wowzers, those people tend to blow up a lot of stuff and reek of rotten eggs all the time. I […]
Step into the Garden, friend, see how lush and brilliant it is! But hush, and breathe, and be still – you don’t want to scare them. Now, don’t look at me like that. You must believe just a little bit, otherwise, why did you pay twenty bucks to get in? The Gnostic Knowms are simply […]
The search is over. We know where it is. Women have always known. Oh, we play plenty dumb, and try to be helpful with questions like, “Where did you last see it?” and “Can you remember if you had it when you were fighting the Black Knight?” But we totally know. And we’re not telling. […]
Spell for a Happy Yard Make sure there are lilacs, and a rosebush or two. Leave a few of the Inevitable Maples to grow. Leave the violets. Plant some cedars around the edge instead of building a fence. Have a few raised garden beds and grow things you lovelovelove to eat. Don’t mow it very […]
Life Goal: To live as magical a life as is humanly possible. Oh, I talk about other goals, smaller, more manageable things like growing SoundWorks into a community of healers and artists working together in a multitude of vibrational modalities . . . which is not small, but it’s not as big as live as magical […]
Once again, I reach the far end of a week where I know there’s a blog post that needs to be written for Tuesday and . . . crickets. So I surf through past posts to see if I can dig up any inspiration, looking at what I was thinking about in March 2020, 2019, […]
