Ways We Block Our Creativity (and What We Can Do About It)
According to ancient Chinese metaphysics, there are two elements associated especially with creativity; they are also associated with the summer season: I wanted to highlight the importance of how this relates to our bodies, emotions, and psyche this time of the year, when you or those around you are going through the Earth energy of […]
ENTER THE YIN: A Winter Solstice Online Gathering
Tuesday, December 21 from 6PM – 8PM PST Live-stream with replay Release the pressure to constantly perform, to fit in everything, to create, to be productive, to be efficient, to be better, to transcend, to be a ‘better’ version of yourself. Rather, ENTER THE YIN energy that awaits to be met as your companion, and […]
CANNABIS, HEALING, AND SPIRITUALITY
“Only plants have consciousness. Animals got it from them. ” — Dale Pendell Canada and the USA is nearing its end of another prohibition era. The mass public in recent years, has shifted its perception of Cannabis (mainly known as Marijuana prior to 2010, but as the stigma around Cannabis vapourizes – pun fully intended […]
JOURNEYING WITH THE DEVIL
It isn’t often that we willfully want to meet the Devil, but that is what I did. Last year, I was working deeply with my shadow side and led by the Light, I was told to embark on a shamanic journey to meet the infamous figure, the Horned Goat. I was at first terrified at […]
UNDER THE NEW MOON: DECOLONIZING, GROWTH, MANIFESTING
Sometimes, my own fears and irrational habits surprise myself. I have internalized oppression of general Chinese/Taiwanese culture (not to mention cultural purging that modern China has experienced) and Christian patriarchy; being a female in a white-centric worldview also adds nuanced complexity. So many painful and limiting layers. So much living small and self-oppression. But I’m […]
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NUMBER FOUR IN MYSTICISM
Photo credits: Me taken by Heather Pennell The number four holds important meanings to the shaman and mystic. There are 4 ages: the child, the adolescent, the adult, the elderly. There are 4 winds, 4 seasons, 4 divisions of time: day, night, month, year. There are 4 key phases of the Moon: New, Waxing, Full, […]
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 […]
Terra Incognita – Unknown Land
Instalment two by Alena Walker shares a topic both personal and universal: individual identity defined through spiritual and physical travel. Here, the wordstress weaves imagination and the manifested, spirit and flesh, myth and certainty, human and diety, and concludes that all are facets of expression of the Unknown rather than polarized concepts. Adam Harteau’s indescribable […]
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, […]
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 […]