When my first book, Unearthing Venus, came out in 2013, I found myself doing dozens of shows and podcast interviews about my search for the lost feminine nature within me and the way society had … No … wait. I have to go further back … So many stories have their roots...

When the movie Star Wars came out in 1977 it set a whole new standard for special effects. But more than the whiz POW! battle scenes, it was the clip of Princess Leia delivering a holographic message meant for the Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi that wowed me the most. In...

I know death and rebirth are themes better suited to Easter than Christmas, which focus is (supposedly) the birth of Christ into the world. But the world is currently ablaze in the throes of awesome change. Who knows where we’ll be in four months time? So, rather than...

Last week I ended the first part of the essay on Defense against the Darkness asking the questions: When do we choose to proudly stand in our Light? When do we stop feeling afraid of the dark? When do we stop giving it so much power? When? When we’re finally equipped...

Type the words “spiritual protection” into a browser window and a veritable smörgåsbord appears in a drop down list. Spiritual protection rituals, spells, prayers, chants, mantras, incantations, symbols, herbs, candles, dream catchers, gem stones, crystals, jewelry,...

The first time I noticed it, I was thirteen. I was sitting on my pony, Comet, stopped in a small grove of trees in a big open field on top of a hill. It was winter, and the cold wind bit my fingers, nose, and toes. (I refused to wear gloves because I wanted to feel...

We all have them. Rituals, I mean. To this day I almost always put my left shoe on first because, back when I was twelve, I read that the British aristocrats always pulled their left riding boot on first for luck before getting on their horses to ride to the hounds...

Recently I spoke of the dangers surrounding over-dependence on and obsession with the intellect. At the end, I evoked the potent scene in James Cameron’s 2009 film Avatar where Neytiri saves Jake from the pack of viperwolves drawn to the light of his torch as he...

Avid curiosity has always been one of the hallmarks of my character. Aside from my birth ( I can see the operating room now from the position of being lifted out of my mother’s unconscious body by the doctor. The most potent sensation was that even the sounds in the...

Years ago, when I was in the early throes of a passionate love affair, it looked like my new beloved was going to succumb to the "thrall of the ex" and go back to a previous partner. Devastated, I remember getting up one morning and, in tears, walking down the stairs...