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12/08/2025

Long before Christmas, long before calendars mapped the year into neat months and weeks, people across Northern Europe marked the turning of the year with Yule, the festival of the midwinter sun. It was a time when the nights were longest, the earth deepest in sleep, and the promise of returning light shimmered just beyond the horizon.

Yule was not a single day but a season—a sacred pause. Fires were lit, evergreen boughs were hung, and feasts were shared, honoring the sun’s slow return and the cycles of life and death that governed the land. It was a time of reflection, protection, and renewal, when households cleared out old energies and called blessings into their homes for the coming year.

The ancient Norse and Germanic peoples celebrated with ritual and revelry. In some tales, Odin himself rode across the skies during Yule, leading the Wild Hunt, a procession of spirits and ancestors that reminded people of the thin veil between worlds. In Celtic and Druidic traditions, Yule honored the rebirth of the sun, with symbols of light—candles, torches, and golden fruits—offered to guide the returning warmth.

Evergreen trees, now so entwined with modern winter celebrations, were originally symbols of eternal life, standing green against the decay of winter. Holly, ivy, mistletoe—plants that survive frost—were hung in homes to invite protection and resilience. Feasting, storytelling, and song filled the long nights, binding communities together against the darkness.

In modern practice, Yule invites us to pause, reflect, and honor the rhythms of nature rather than the calendar alone. It is a time to light candles, decorate with symbols of endurance and abundance, and mark the turning of the sun with small rituals of gratitude, intention, and connection.

Reflection Questions for Yule:
~What are you ready to release as the year turns?
~Where can you invite light, warmth, or growth into your life during the longest nights?
~Which traditions—old or new—help you feel connected to the cycles of the year?

Yule reminds us that even in darkness, light is returning. The season is a time between endings and beginnings, a pause to honor the past, and a call to step into the year ahead with awareness, intention, and reverence.

12/05/2025

Tonight’s Gemini Super Full Moon arrives like a wise, ancient ally—bright, direct, and gently insistent.

It stands before you and says: “You are ready to see clearly. You are ready to release. You are ready to stand on the timeline that truly matches your essence.”

This moon doesn’t muddle the message. It illuminates what is complete, dissolves what no longer serves, and lifts your gaze toward the path that has been quietly waiting for you.

Here are the teachings woven into this moon’s light:

Three Energetic Teachings of the Gemini Full Moon

1. Illumination of What’s Complete
This moon shines into the subtle corners of your awareness, revealing the patterns, threads, and stories you’ve outgrown. There’s no judgment — only recognition: “This has served. And now it is complete.” Clarity becomes compassion. Compassion becomes release.

2. Graceful Release of Old Cords and Karmic Threads
Gemini highlights the pathways of connection, making it easier than ever to dissolve outdated agreements, return empathic bundles, and retrieve your own power. Under this moon, old cords almost volunteer for release.

You simply say: “Return. Release. Reclaim.” Your field reorganizes around truth.

3. Alignment with the Timeline That Supports Your Essence
As the old falls away, your true direction reveals itself—cleaner, clearer, more coherent. You feel the resonance. You recognize the “yes.” You step into the future that already holds the vibration of who you’re becoming. This is the clarity that sets you free.

A Simple Full Moon Invocation

* Stand in the moonlight or by a window.
* Hold your awareness in your divine line.
* And whisper: “I release what is complete. I reclaim what is mine. I align with the future that honors my essence.”
* Let the moon weave the rest.

May this final Super Full Moon illuminate your path, open your inner sight, and support the refinement of your fields as you step into a new cycle rooted in truth, power, and coherence.

With moonlit blessings and deep steadiness.

12/03/2025

“May these longer nights feed us with firelight, wolf song, apple-buttered bread, and those wild winter stories of mountain hags, wise children, and weary travelers met by otherworldly creatures on the road.

May we leave our dead and dusty fears outside our doors for a time, making room for the timeless wonders of a winter come early and a hearth full of fiery lessons about loving the infinite dark, intentional joy, and living in strange harmony with sanctuary and wilderness, stillness and dance, order and chaos, and silence and song.”

~ Danielle Dulsky
Danielle Dulsky


Art: Irina Babushkina
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11/17/2025

11/09/2025

“There are those who will tell you, my people, that if you do not speak your traditional language that you are not an Indian. They will tell you that your prayers are not heard if not uttered in your first language. These ones are misguided.

To be traditional, to be Indian, is to live in a spiritual manner guided by principles for which there is no language - only a heart song, only a spirit voice uttering prayers which are always heard by spirits and ancestors and Creator in that realm where there is no time, no color, no language - only Spirit.

Pray then from the earnest movements of your soul and behave in the way the answers come and be Cree, Dene, Ojibway etc. For we are and always have been, people of the prayer, the petition, the vision. and the sure, soft voice of spirit asking direction. This is spiritual. This is Truth. This is Indian....”
—Richard Wagamese, Ojibway

Art by Cree artist, Chholing Taha

10/05/2025

October’s SuperMoon!!

Tomorrow we welcome the first full moon of autumn — a moment that feels especially potent as the season turns inward.

The outward season of growth is passing. The leaves are shifting. The light is softening. And now, under this moon’s bright glow, we are invited to pause, reflect, and listen deeply.

This full moon is a mirror.

It illuminates what’s been hidden inside. It encourages us to slow down, to notice the truths rising within us, and to trust the wisdom of our inner world.

Just as autumn trees release their leaves, we’re invited to loosen what no longer serves, while also recognizing the gifts this year has already given.

This Harvest Supermoon features a Full Moon in Aries, bringing themes of courage, bold action, and relationships. This energy encourages taking decisive steps to create balance and find leadership within yourself.

This Full Moon offers us opportunities to access the courage we need to make bold changes and take decisive action to address imbalances in our lives and relationships. This event reminds us that we can’t relate to other people authentically if we don’t know who we are, if we are not in touch with what we need and desire, if we don’t honor our truth, and if we please others at the expense of ourselves. The Aries Full Moon reminds us that our needs and desires matter and challenges us to create new ways to harmonize togetherness and separation, independence and interdependence.

🌕 This Full Moon Invites You To:
* Embrace Boldness: Use this energy to make decisive choices and address imbalances in your life.
* Mind Your Reactions: While the full moon sparks strong emotions, take time to reflect before responding to potential challenges in intimate dynamics or power struggles.
* Find Your Inner Leader: Focus on guiding yourself and proactively leading your life with instinct.
* Be Mindful of Secrets: During this charged period, keep vulnerable secrets close until you've had sufficient time to truly know someone.
* Stay Present: Avoid fixating on the past; instead, regroup in the present and focus on the future.
* Listen: Listen closely for the quiet wisdom surfacing within.
Trust the inner season you’re entering — even if it feels unfamiliar.

This full moon energy will be with us for days; you don’t have to rush. Simply let its light guide you into a slower, deeper rhythm. Listen, rest, review, and embrace the changes of the season.

09/26/2025

The Sacred Circle

Within the circle, all hearts unite,
Guided by moon and stars of night.
No step ahead, no step behind,
Only the balance all souls find.

The earth is mother, the sky our dome,
The circle holds us, it is our home.
In every breath, the truth is clear:
All are equal, all belong here.

09/08/2025

Yesterday I facilitated a Full Corn Moon Ceremony.... powerful because it was also aligned with the Lunar Eclipse that carries such intense energy. I LOVE offering ceremonies like this! We made an Abundance Jar and meditated to Sara Mama, the Inkan Corn Goddess. Woo hoo!!

09/06/2025

“Eagle and the Sun”

Upon the canvas of an endless sky,
the Eagle spreads his wings to fly.
Keeper of visions, watcher of height,
he carries the Sun in his sacred flight.

The Sun, a face of wisdom and flame,
whispers the truth, calls Eagle’s name.
Together they rise, where day is begun,
guardians of Earth, the Sky, and the Sun.

To the people below, their bond is clear:
strength with wisdom, courage with fear.
For Eagle teaches, with piercing eyes,
that spirit endures where the daylight lies.

So when the dawn paints the horizon wide,
remember the Eagle who walks with the sky.
He carries the fire, the circle begun,
the eternal dance of Eagle and Sun.
🎨Artist and the storyteller : Solis Hue
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