Excerpt 1 from HONOURING OUR MENSES
“My days 26-28 in particular, I notice my instincts sharpen, my mind clouding, scent radar amplifying, and my body assuming the posture of shedding my internal skin. Like a serpent, I coil, hiss, bare my fangs, protect who and what I fiercely hold dear, and crave warm touch. My emotions and discernments, though at times […]
Some Q & As for Mimi
Where were you born? I was born on a small, sub tropical island of monsoon and evergreen forests in East Asia called Taiwan (formerly known as Formosa). Tree, Mountain and Sea are my original parents. In fact, my maiden name 林 (Lin) means forest. Are you fluent in your mother tongue? My first words were […]
SKIN FOOD: CHICKEN SOUP WITH TRADITIONAL CHINESE HERBS
People often ask me what I do for my skin, and I’ll be doing a deep dive on how I approach skin at my upcoming workshop, SACRED SKIN + CYCLES, at The Well on Bowen Island on Wednesday, November 21. There, I’ll share: Practical skin science What your skin truly needs through Traditional Chinese Medicine […]
INTERVIEW WITH A SHAMANIC INTUITIVE
As mentioned on Instagram, I’ve been a regular listener on Julie Parker’s The Priestess Podcast for quite some time. She curates beautiful, relatable content on mysticism, alternative healing modalities, the Divine Feminine, conscious business, and so many other topics that I care deeply about. It was an IMMENSE honour to be interviewed by Julie on […]
THE WINTER ABYSS
This achingly beautiful winter piece, custom written by our UK-based guest contributor, Alena Walker (her bio at the end), functions as dream, prayer, and love song to our glorious Mother Earth. Paired with photographer Kate Bellm‘s tropical compositions that drip our internal, humid longings, the images provide luminous portrayals of what humanity yearns on Mothernight, […]
WINTER RITUALS + CELEBRATIONS
Yule may be the most magickal time of the year. The divine Crone rules the Earth and invites the people of the land to honour and appreciate the darkness of Winter and wildness, and to hold space for mystery and the transformations that will soon emerge in the Spring. In Shamanic cultures, the medicine woman/man […]
WHAT SAMHAIN (OCTOBER 31) MEANS TODAY
Samhain (pronounced as ‘sow-in’), is originally a Gaelic pagan festival marking the end of the harvest season (summer) and beginning of the ‘darker half’ of the year (winter). It is traditionally celebrated from sunset on October 31, and is also known as the start of the new year for pagans. The veil between this physical […]
ON SOULMATES…
There is so much fuss on finding a life partner. (In America, there’s even a multi-billion dollar industry that is misnamed as a “rite of passage” – aka weddings). Though we have come a long way in understanding and exploring the topic of relationships and relationship formats, I have found that in all circles – […]
The Gift of Mercury Retrograde
Of all the planetary aspects, it is perhaps Mercury Retrograde that everyone loves to fear and hate. How can we resist, when the havoc-wreaking planet presents the illusion of slowing and moving backwards? Emails aren’t sent, deadlines missed, blog posts spontaneously disappearing while it is being written (my computer crashed 6x while writing this), vehicles […]
BOTANICAL SPOTLIGHT: ROSE
Nothing comes close to the warmth, the richness, and the sheer romance of the rose. There are 250+ species and many thousands more of hybrids of rose. Rose damascena and Rosa centifolia are the two most common varietals for extraction into what we know as rose absolute and rose otto. In Bulgaria and Turkey, among […]