Sitting with my older brother as he is dying. It seems it’s almost the most intimate time in someone’s life and to be able to share with them is sacred. It is late, been at the hospital for 7 hours. The hospital is quiet now it is almost midnight. I […]
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Easter at the Temple of Why
For more than 20 years Easter meant music preparation and rehearsals all culminating in 4 Masses that were the living representation of the point of Catholicism, of Christianity. Christ’s death and the important part, his resurrection. I love(d) the services, the music, the solemnity. So now does Easter have any […]
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Easter hope
We are living through a massive institutional religious crisis. The Catholic Church is hemorrhaging members. Mainline Protestantism is collapsing. We are an entire generation of spiritual seekers who are wounded by religion made by men for men using men’s words. We are not becoming atheists, most of us. We’re becoming […]
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The Temple of Why – the Healing Tradition
As many celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ this weekend, the Temple of Why stands as a tradition to heal the wounds of institutional religion. From the Cosmology of Soul Mother to the Doctrine of Radical Love, the unfolding begs us to heal. Every single element of the Soul […]
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When the Feminine Mantles were Stolen; Isis, Hekate, Diana and Mary Magdalene
There was a time when the world spoke the names of the goddesses as if naming the elements themselves. Isis was the breath that resurrects, the mother who gathers the scattered parts of life and makes them whole again. Hekate stood at every threshold, torch in hand, guiding souls through […]
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How Women are Taught to Temper Truth
The Softening of Feminine Fire When a woman dares to name what has been taken from her, the first response she often hears is, “Be careful not to sound angry.” When she speaks of imbalance, she is asked for balance. When she points to injustice, she is asked for grace. […]
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When the Flame was taken and why it must return. Reclaiming the true meaning of spiritual leadership
In the beginning, the sacred was not ruled. It was tended. Within the Cave of Creation, Soul Mother breathed the first light, and humanity learned to keep that light alive through reverence, care, and wonder. Leadership was service then; a hand cupped around the flame. It was never meant to […]
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Why Men Became Spiritual Leaders and Why They Shouldn’t have
Spiritual authority was never meant to rest on hierarchy. In the earliest temples, shrines, and mystery schools, the work of tending the sacred was shared. Leadership flowed from devotion, not dominance; from listening, not command. Yet over time the sacred mantle was seized by men, not because they were chosen […]
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🌿✨ The Green Altar ✨🌿
She’s not tidy. She doesn’t follow rows or rules. She blooms sideways, unapologetic, with her face turned toward the sun and her roots deep in knowing. This is The Green Altar—my back garden. It’s where I pray with my hands in the soil. Where the old gods speak in Echinacea […]
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Naming the Witch’s Edge
There’s a stretch of garden along my white fence that’s never quite obeyed the rules — too narrow for grandeur, too wild to be proper. And so, I let it be what it wanted to be: a place where clover crept in between the plantings, soft and defiant, and a […]