Leaning into our shadows in order to heal can feel turbulent. The seas of my life today, in this moment, are wildly quarrelsome, deep and chaotic, dark and mysterious. I make the wish I can take back my secret prayers and calls for change. I desperately cling to the thought that I can quickly just put back the pieces I once had, for in this moment they feel more comfortable than what is here right now. Transformation has that inescapable feeling of breaking, yet knowing full

As we welcome the new year I feel an intimacy with the fires on the South Coast of NSW. From the end of the street, my family and I watch the heat, smoke and ash, the burn, the scorch, the blaze of the forest. Meeting the intensity of Mother Gaia in this way is strikingly sobering. ‘We are living in unprecedented times’, I have often heard myself saying and will probably keep saying it, because we are. It's an exciting and terrifying and formidable time. Being amongst the int

What is your intention for the new cycle as we move from the dark to the light? Now that we have tumbled through the longest night and shortest day of the year. For the Solstice is a turning point. From now until the Summer Solstice the days grow longer as the dark wanes and the Sun waxes. Our ancestors celebrated the Yule as the birth of the Sun God, born of the Goddess after her return from the Underworld. Fires and candles were lit to welcome the return of the Sun Gods lig