Spring Cleaning

We are in the final weeks of Spring, and if you have not done so already, it's time to complete your Spring Cleaning! As we near the turn from the direction of East (Spring) to the direction of South (Summer), here are some ways you can invoke the medicine of the elements into your Spring Cleaning ritual.  

The first step is to clean your house like you normally would (put things away, wash dishes, take out trash, dust, etc). Once you get your home to a baseline level of clean, then its time to bring the magic of the elements into your home to support your intention setting for a powerful Summer Solstice. 

Earth: Salt represents the element of Earth and is a great tool for cleansing and activating spaces. Pour some Sea Salt in a sacred dish and bless it, thanking the earth for such a charged particle in manifest form. Sprinkle the salt on your floors, making sure to get in the corners too. You can play with various symbols of sacred geometry when sprinkling your salt, and can also chant or offer prayers for what you are releasing / charging. You don’t need to use a lot, just enough to sprinkle your intentions throughout the room for further activation in the next step (and yes, you can do this on hard wood floors too). 

Water: Once the Earth element is in place, now it's time to bring in the cleansing and activating element of Water. Put some water in a spray bottle and bless it, you can add aromatherapy too. Once the water has been blessed and filled with your prayers, spray the rooms you have salted. I usually start in one corner of the room and work my way around, spraying my plants, drapes, and floor. The goal is not to soak your room, but to activate the salt crystals with the water so the ions can do their thing. Once this step is complete, I leave the room and give it time to work, letting the mating of Earth and Water do their magic.

Once you complete the Earth and Water steps, then it’s time to vacuum. As you do this, you are vacuuming up any stagnant energies collected in the salt. When you are done, empty your vacuum bags and move on the next element.  

Fire: Now that your space is cleansed and activated it’s time to bring in the element of Fire. I typically use a small candle and inscribe my intention for that space into the wax with a pen. When I light the candle, I do so with the invocation that the flames of my intentions will infuse the room I am working in. Depending on the room you are powering up, you may have different intentions. In the bedroom you may want to invoke passion, romance or good sleep, whereas in the office you may to invoke healthy finances or a new career path. Once you light the candle, gaze into the flame and visualize your intentions being birthed. 

Air: Once the fire element has activated the room for a while, then it’s time to open your windows and invoke the element of Air. This lets the breeze of mystery into your space, and also carries your intentions out into the world on the wind so they can manifest in relational space.  

Once complete, get out of your house and go live your intentions! 

Blessings for an amazing summer. May you find many beautiful ways to ignite your soul purpose with grace and ease, and bring your spirit out into the world in only the way that you can. 

Fathering Myself

My definition of and relationship to “Father” has evolved so much over the past several years. From an overview perspective: the relationship I had with my biological father growing up was deeply wounding. My 20’s were spent numbing and rebelling against the pains of childhood, while my 30’s were spent thawing out and diving into the hurt so I could heal. My 40’s are starting out to be about the cultivation of authentic being and living in alignment with Soul Purpose. 

When I did Death Lodge in Death Valley 5 years ago, little did I know the course of my life was taking a deeply transformational turn. In Death Valley I was visited by Raven Man, who over the course of 4 years, flew circles and spirals through my chakras, cawing me into accountability at each tier of being. In essence Raven Man was fathering me to vibrate at my highest frequency one chakra at a time.  

Last year I had a powerful Death Lodge experience with my biological father, and in the completion of his death, was able to release his name from mine. In this space, I was able to claim my new name,  deepening my embodiment of Raven medicine and my own ability to father myself. 

I recently met a man in the Rhythm Sanctuary community that sparked my interest and curiosity. In getting to know him, I discovered that he is a father. And to be honest, he looks and acts like one (whatever that means). The fact that I met someone who sparks my interest is cool, however, what’s so poignant about my interaction with him is a shift that has occurred in me.   

In the past, when I thought of Father, I always thought of it from the child’s point of view, to be more specific, from a little girls point of view, and if you want to drill all the way down, to my specific experience with Father. In the past, when I saw a father walking down the street with his little girl, the first thought that would pass through my head was “I wonder what that father does with his little girl behind closed doors.”

As I worked with Raven medicine over the years, my thoughts and relationship with Father have shifted, and this new man in the community has been a beautiful mirror for me to see just how much. When I heard he was a father (and of course when I looked at his pictures on Facebook), I first and foremost thought about him, as a man, as a father. There was no story line attached to him based upon my past relationship with Father; it is no longer applicable. My thoughts about father are from the father perspective, and not the wounded little girl perspective. Talk about a powerful shift in consciousness. 


What I am learning is that I can see a truer reflection of other as I release my stories of the past. As I let go of old belief systems, I am more capable of creating an authentically true interaction with life in every moment, in every breath, and in every relationship. I am so grateful for this journey, and all the lessons and medicines ingested along the way. Maturing is a fun process when you don’t have as much "baggage" to carry with you along the way. 

Bridging the Chakras

One of the core themes that has emerged from my Divine Download Chakra Journey is the theme of Bridges. When I invoked this journey on the Winter Solstice, I set the intention of spending two weeks in each chakra, starting in the Crown and ending in the Root Chakra in early Spring. This act in and of itself created a bridge between Crown and Root, Heaven and Earth; bridging my journey from one end of the Rainbow Bridge to the other. 

In one of my ecstatic experiences in the Brow Chakra, I formed a bridge between my intellectual understanding of archetypes, with the heart space of how archetypes relates. This was a powerful awakening for me and deepened how I embody archetypal wisdoms. 

When I transitioned from the Brow Chakra into the Throat Chakra, I knew I was crossing the threshold from the transpersonal realm of the upper chakras into the relational realm of the mid-chakras. To anchor the transpersonal side of this bridge, I activated deep listening so I could more fully bring the divine and archetypal wisdoms cultivated in the upper realm with me across the bridge into the space of the heart. 

As I activated the Throat Chakra, I realized I needed a bridge from my throat to my Solar Plexus. To speak my truth, I needed a foundation of personal responsibility and commitment to authentic and harmonious communications.  Without the courage of the Solar Plexus, it can be rather challenging to speak up and speak out. 

When I initially transitioned into the Heart Chakra, I was uncomfortable and did not know how to engage this energy center. In this confusion I remembered the bridge formed from my Brow Chakra earlier in my journey. This realization lead me to see that I had crossed the bridge; I was on the other side!  I was now in the relational space of the archetypal energies birthed earlier in my journey. It was at this point that I really started to see the pattern of bridges between my chakra centers and how they support and infuse one another.  

When I was in the Heart Chakra, not only did I re-activate the bridge to the Brow Chakra, I also started to build a bridge from my heart to my Sacral Chakra. This pathway enabled me to bring more feeling and emotion into my heart space, deepening my compassion for self and others. Now I had bridges going in 4 directions, up and down, in and out; wowee - powerful stuff! 

It will be interested to see how the the theme of bridges deepens as I move through the lower chakras. At a high level, I more deeply understand how Chakra 3 needs the foundation of Chakra 1 to bring action into embodied being. I also understand that as I enter into the Sacral Chakra, the bridge formed earlier between the heart and pelvis will be strengthened. Lots to discover and share, and I look forward to crossing that bridge when I get there. 

Double Penetration on the Rainbow Bridge

Once again, I felt hesitancy on my chakra journey to transition from one chakra to the next. This time I was resistant to move from the Throat Chakra into the Heart. I felt like I had not activated the throat enough to transition into heart space with integrated wisdom accessed in my upper chakra explorations. 

I permissioned myself to take an “extra” week crossing the bridge of the throat, so that I could gently move from the transpersonal realm of the upper chakras, into the relational space of the mid-chakras. However, when my extra week was over, I was still resistant. In this discomfort I remembered the bridge created from my Brow Chakra to the Heart, when I connected archetypal complexes to their unique relational heart spaces. 

The road was already laid for me to bring the resources and ally’s I formed in the upper chakras down with me into the heart. Integrating them into my journey this way enables me to enter into deeper relationship with them, both through myself and others. 

I brought this awareness with me into my dance at Rhythm Sanctuary, and in doing so was able to feel deeper into my hesitancy to slip into the relational realm. I came to see how some of my “blockage” was connected to my “comfort zone” of being on either end of the Rainbow Bridge.  

I am comfortable in the solidarity of individual being and the wild nature of my animal self, forces governed by the Root Chakra. I am also deeply merged with the divine as my primary source of being, universal consciousness activated by the Crown Chakra. These ends of the chakra system represent the anchor points of the Rainbow Bridge. I am  comfortable on the ends, but ask me to walk out onto the bridge, especially to the middle, well then, fears get activated and I feel a shiver deep in my soul. 

This awareness took my trance into an ecstatic vortex of grand proportion. I felt the oneness of my primal ecological being coming up my chakras from the Root. I felt God one-being-ness coming down my chakras from the Crown. And in the center, was my heart, receiving these two energy currents. Double Penetration; from above and below. Receiving each polarity into the center of my being took my dance into enraptured love making. It was great! 

But wait...there’s more! Being in this space of embodiment, while in the midst of community, took me me even deeper. While I was being double penetrated, from above and below, I was being seen by others, and I welcomed it. Feeling the totality of my inner experience, while being witnessed from without, brought in another dimension of Double Penetration. Holey Moley! 

These 4 energy currents, up and down, in and out, filled the four chambers of my heart, bringing me into the heights of my ecstatic heart chakra activation. Needless to say, the dance was orgasmic. Thank you to the community of Rhythm Sanctuary for showing up how you do, and co-creating a space that supports me to work the medicine the way that I do. I love making love with you. See you next week :} 

What Do You Hear?

The Throat Chakra governs the theme of communication, and is located in the region of the mouth, ears and throat. It is said we have two ears and one mouth, therefore we should listen twice as much as we speak. This anatomical truth helped me ease into my Throat Chakra explorations by activating the embodiment of hearing. 

For several days, I brought intense awareness to how my outer ear collected sound waves from my external environment. Feeling into these vibrations traveling through my ear canal and drumming against my tympanic membrane. This pulsation vibrates the 3 small bones of the middle ear, which in turn beat against the oval window. This then creates waves in the fluid filled cochlea of the inner ear. These waves stimulate hair follicles, which activate the auditory nerve, which sends sound impulses to the brain for interpretation. Wow, that is lot of stuff that happens really fast! 

Working with the fundamental anatomy of the ear, I focused a whole day hearing with my right ear,  feeling into the auditory nerve crossing over to the other side of my brain for interpretation. The next day, I focused on hearing with my left ear and the cross over to the other side of my brain. Then I listened with both ears, feeling even deeper into the cross over of my auditory nerves. Coupled with the cross over of my optic nerves, I came to a center point in this mandala of sensory input, between eyes and ears, seeing and hearing. I started seeing sounds and hearing images, discovering a vibrant new way of receiving input and wisdom from the moment. 

This level of hearing made me very aware of the sounds we are immersed in every day. It’s hard to close our ears to the negative sounds created from media, hateful self-talk, and environmental sound pollution. Therefore, its important to balance the bombardment of dissonance sound vibrations with resonant, harmonious ones. This can be done though chanting, either out loud or internally, sitting in silence and listening to the sound of your breath, or sitting in nature and listening to the natural sounds of the wild. 

Hearing is an amazing process to feel into and appreciate. I encourage you to take some time to listen twice as much as you speak. Notice the sounds around and within you? Take some time to really listen to the universe, you'll be amazed at what you hear. 

I got my eye on you...

Over the past week I’ve been playing with the placement of my 3rd Eye. I started with my 3rd Eye in the “standard” location between my two physical eyes. Deepening my practice of opening to the light of the divine shining down from my crown onto the lens of my 3rd eye, which acts as a prism refracting the colors of the rainbow throughout my head and consciousness. 

Then I started playing with my 3rd Eye in different locations in my head, at different angles and on different planes. As divine light hit my 3rd eye at these different locations, the colors of the rainbow refracted throughout my head at different angles as well, piercing into and through many blockages and dark crevices. 

One of the more powerful locations I played with was placing my 3rd Eye at the back of my throat. In this position, I was able to “see” out of my mouth, a powerful way to get activated for my upcoming transition into the Throat Chakra. This placement also deepened my witnessing of words coming out of my mouth, expanding my understanding around the power and medicine of sound.

As I played with my 3rd Eye, I continued to work with the Brow Chakra theme of archetypes. As many of you know, I’m an avid nature photographer, with one my specialties being insects. This week, these two forces came together, supporting me in more fully honoring the totem medicine of insects in my life. 

It is with this inspiration that I embarked on my weekly trance journey at Rhythm Sanctuary. I began my dance with my eyes closed, embodying the structure of the compound eye found in many insects. In this state, I had thousands of 3rd eyes all over my head, refracting light in exponential angles of consciousness.  And since I am getting ready to transition into the Throat Chakra, I kept the portal between the base of my head and my throat open so as not to clamp down on the power of my expiernace. 

I stayed in this space for a while, and when I felt able to keep this level of consciousness engaged, I slowly opened my physical eyes. Around me were so many beautiful people, dancing in their bliss, and what was so amazing, is that with my insect eyes, I saw thousands of them! My perception of reality shifted. As I entered into dance partnership with other beings, I looked at them and saw their luminescence in thousand fold; deepening my love and connection with the very essence of their soul. 

I am so grateful to insect for the deep teachings that have entered my life over the years as a result of connecting to and merging with this aspect of the nature world. I look forward to continuing my embodiment of this medicine and expanding my perception of reality through the process. 

Imagination is a core aspect of working with the Brow Chakra. How can you play with your imagination to expand your perception of reality? How can you integrate various patterns and passions in your life to create wider possibilities of divine being? I welcome your comments and thoughts as inspiration for others to play with too. 

Colors of Consciousness

After spending two weeks activating my Crown Chakra, I am now fully in my 3rd Eye Chakra. Some of you may have read my blog last week about my archetypal activation on the dance floor. This week I was able to see, feel, and embody the white light of the divine streaming into my Crown Chakra and hitting my 3rd eye. My 3rd eye then acted as a prism, breaking the white light up into all the colors of the rainbow. These colors of consciousness filled my head and infused my dance with luminescence. 

I danced in this consciousness for a while, then I opened my throat and let the colors of the rainbow infuse my Throat Chakra. I had to open my tissue and energy body up quite a bit for all the colors of the rainbow to fit in my throat, but I did it and it felt amazing (insert joke here about deep throating God). 

Then, I opened my heart space and all the colors of the rainbow infused my Heart Chakra. In this embodied experience I claimed the truth that there is space in my heart to hold the wisdom of all the chakras; the clarity of communication, the expansiveness of love, the power of intention, the sensuality of movement, the embodied presence of flesh. Breathing this wisdom in my heart space moved me into so many beautiful ecstatic dance experiences with others. I made love with so many wonderful souls in this space of consciousness. 

There were times when this experience become more of a mental process for me. When I became aware of this, I would start back at my crown, open to divine light, let it hit the prism of my third eye, and shine the rainbow down my chakras. Each time I re-cycled through this process, the colors of the rainbow would extend deeper into my chakra system, eventually finding its rainbow way into my pelvis and into the bone marrow of my legs. 

This embodied experience helped me better understand one of the core archetypal forces in my life, that of the Light Bearer. I am a prism for divine light to shine through. I engage and express all the colors of the rainbow in beautiful and brilliant ways. This is one of my gifts, and is one of the ways I am called to be of service. 

I am so grateful for the Rhythm Sanctuary community. It brings tears of love and joy to my eyes and heart to witness how fully we all show up. May we all find ways to embody and express the light force. The world is calling for your magic. May we all live our lives with Nameste Consciousness. The light in me, bows to the light you. Blessings to all. 

To see more SoulCollage images I have created for the 3rd eye Chakra, check out my web page.