Heron Brook Haven

03/25/2026

All our relatives remember. May we do the same.

“A seed enters the earth and is met by kin.

The soil closes gently around it.
Mycelial threads reach, fine as silk, offering connection before emergence.

Nothing asks the seed to prove itself.
It is fed, informed, held
by a web that remembers forests older than its shell.

Belonging happens underground.
In the dark, nourishment moves hand to hand, messages travel along living threads, rhythms align,
and the seed learns when it is safe to begin.

By the time a seed breaks the surface, it has already been in relationship for a long while.

This is the quiet truth the earth keeps: we are never born into isolation.
We are welcomed first by networks that know how to receive us.”

~ Brigit Anna McNeill
Brigit Anna McNeill

Art: Judith Shaw, “Our Lady of Heaven and Earth”
Judith Shaw

03/20/2026

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03/20/2026

Yes!

Among the teachings shared within the traditions of the Hopi are stories that speak about cycles of balance and change on Earth. Some interpretations describe a series of “great shakings,” moments when humanity experiences upheaval and is reminded to return to harmony with the natural world. In many retellings, the first two shakings are associated by modern interpreters with the global conflicts of the twentieth century, events that profoundly affected people across the planet. 🌎🪶

Teachings connected with a third shaking are often described as a time when the Earth shows signs of imbalance through natural forces such as storms, fires, floods, and other powerful events. Within Indigenous worldviews, the Earth is frequently understood as a living, sacred presence—sometimes referred to as Mother Earth—whose well-being is deeply connected with the actions of humanity. These teachings emphasize respect for the land, water, animals, and all living beings as part of a shared circle of life. 🌿⚡

Some storytellers connect this period of change with the idea of the “Rainbow Warriors,” a vision often shared in modern spiritual interpretations about people from many cultures coming together to restore balance and care for the planet. While details vary across communities, the message often centers on unity, responsibility, and compassion for the Earth. At its heart, the teaching serves as a reminder that living gently upon the land and honoring all life can help guide humanity toward harmony once again. 🌈🙏

03/13/2026

For years, I thought my calling was to educate, speak, inspire, or communicate a message.
I thought I had learned how to build businesses simply to "get ahead," make money, or change my lifestyle.
But that is a narrative bound by the very same thread: survival.
It is natural to seek to link what you believe you "are" with what you "do" [and vice versa].
On the surface, that is exactly how it appears—because those are the activities I engage in day-to-day: educating, speaking, inspiring, or communicating a message.
But that is not my calling;
that is merely what I "do."
The question is: *why* do I do it?
With what *purpose* do I do it?
And of course, it is easy to assume I do it so that *you* can build a prosperous business—one that enables a life-changing transformation, allows you to quit your job... blah, blah, blah.
But no.
Today, I assure you: it is none of that.
Sure, you *do* end up creating a business that changes your life—but that is not the reason I do what I do.
Building a business? ...Pfft.
You can learn how to do that on YouTube, or from ChatGPT.
I assure you, that is not the purpose of my work. Let me explain it to you with an example 👇🏼
Imagine that your occupation was plowing the land.
You might assume that all your daily labor exists solely so that someone can sow a few seeds—and that’s it.
Of course, seeds *will* be sown in the soil you’ve plowed; but that is not the ultimate purpose.
The true purpose is to produce food for an entire community. Do you see the difference?
In that same vein, what I do isn't really about educating you, or simply inspiring you to start a business.
What I do is help you awaken from the collective slumber—to remember who you truly are.
To what end?
So that you may ignite your own inner light, share it with the world, and inspire others to do the same.
The *vehicle* for achieving that is the business you ultimately create. But that business is not the end goal itself. The goal is the transformation you will undergo.
The goal is the person you are going to become.
When that light ignites within you, you let go of the identity you created to survive.
You let go of the beliefs anchored to that identity—beliefs that limit your full potential.
Ultimately, that is what it is all about:
Helping you awaken your true potential, so that you dare to make real what you previously didn't even dare to imagine.
~Author unknown

03/07/2026

It seems many are at a time for a big reset with all the swirling and shifting going on. This is the perfect time to create the foundation for your birthing season this year. Contemplate what it is you truly want to grow and support before planting seeds or laying eggs. Listen from the still place within as you create your nest...the home for what will be.
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03/05/2026

"I have spent fifty years trying to teach this truth: Sound is powerful. It is actually the polarities coming together, one hitting the other, like two hands clapping. Sounds are powers. Language is power. The power is not primarily in the intellectual concepts language is expressing, but in the very sounds of the words. Conceptualization is not the basis for Universal Intelligence; the true basis for Universal Intelligence is sound.
If you go back to the original sound it will awaken the archetypal vibrations in you. We are like the top of the carrot. We need to go back down to the root, the very tip. That is where the Circle of Light is. It exists at the subatomic level. We have to go down to it and bring whatever is there up to higher and higher levels of consciousness.
The goal of these mystery teachings is to put us in touch with the cosmos that we live in and the other universes that exist alongside our universe. If we are going to go back to the true mystery of life, we have to educate ourselves about sound."
~Joseph Rael

03/02/2026

The only thing you need to answer to is your own becoming.

02/28/2026

There’s a life affirming teaching in Buddhism, which is that Buddha, which means ‘awake’, is not someone you worship, Buddha is not someone you aspire to; Buddha is not somebody that was born more than two thousand years ago and was smarter than you’ll ever be.
Buddha is our inherent nature – our buddha nature – and what that means is that if you’re going to grow up fully, the way that it happens is that you begin to connect with the intelligence that you already have.
It’s not like there's some intelligence that’s going to be transplanted into you. If you’re going to be fully mature, you will no longer be imprisoned in the childhood feeling that you always need to protect yourself or shield yourself because things are too harsh.
If you’re going to be a grown up – which I would define as being completely at home in your world no matter how difficult the situation – it’s because you will allow something that’s already in you to be nurtured. You allow it to grow, you call it to come out, instead of all the time shielding it and protecting it and keeping it buried.
~ Pema Chodron

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02/20/2026

Good one! I love my dreams. They have been such a huge part of my journey. I also love my visions and what they show me...for myself and for those I work with. I also enjoy helping others find the meaning and truth in their dreams. We were taught to fear many things and that they were 'just' dreams. Another way they feared what they couldn't control.

02/20/2026

So important.

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02/10/2026

Keeping the foundations of what supports strong is important. Look beyond the hype, the twists and changes. Seek what is real and true. Follow what works for you.

The lunar calendar and Gaelic lore reckons imbolc or Imbolg as not on a fixed calendar date.

This is the kind of chat that doesn’t make me popular at parties or on the internet, but who needs pals, eh? Imbolc wasn’t a set calendar date. It was set by the New Moon, and falls this year on the 17th - 19th of February. I say this as the dark moon is on the 17th, but some folk wait for the first sliver of silver moon in the sky to acknowledge it, which is a couple of days later. We also have this spoken a lot about in Scottish Gaelic lore, too -especially in the Carmina Gadelica.

Also, according to the Gaelic lore, Imbolc is not regarded traditionally as the midpoint between the Solstice and the equinox its actually the quarter day between Bealtainn and Samhuinn, marking it the middle of winter. You can see this mentioned in the Tochmarc Emire ( the wooing of Emer) in these words… following the date, a set of winds were discussed which helped the Gaels work out when to plant or not, like the name for February is named after one of these winds, An Gearran Gelding month, and the moon after the new moon is called Gealach a’ ghearrain if you like.

“That I shall fight without harm to myself from Samuin, i.e., the end of summer. For two divisions were formerly on the year, viz., summer from Beltaine, and winter from Samuin to Beltaine.” Meyer mentions Oimelc as the beginning of spring in their translation, but also mentions how its wetness is not winter wetness. We are right in the middle of winter right now, moving into warmer climes, which Bealtaiin marks the last of the frosts. Following the lunar calendar means Bealtainn will begin on and around the 16th of May this year. Like pals, no wonder you are tired, we aren’t meant to be moving as fast as all that just yet…

Why do I get outspoken about this? Well, the modern wheel of the year massively appropriated and changed Gaelic culture to fit an imposed ideology which wasn’t there in the first instance. Entire generations of pagans unquestionably conformed to a new understanding and broke our already damaged traditions in Scotland. I discuss this at length in my book and writing so feel free to dive in.

Honestly I don’t write about these things to be annoying on purpose it’s an important thing to think about. These festivals are still living traditions, important cultural markers, and a survival of a transhumance animist relationship with people and place. You might be inclined to view the imposition of the 8 festivals and pagan wheel of the year as an erasure of historic and cultural identity, you might even see it as removing us from the natural rhythms of place and space, which I'm entirely sure isnt the intended aim of the wheel of the year in modern paganism.

02/02/2026

Yes....this is what we have been working and praying for...don't stop now.....keep drumming

At the end, as at the beginning, stands the archetypal power of the Divine Feminine—the goddess.

She is our future as she was our past.

With her drum in hand, playing her sacramental rhythms, women can once again take their place in the world as technicians of the sacred.

In the pulse of my drum, in the beat of my heart, I erect an alter to her forever.

~ Layne Redmond, “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”

Art by Annatina Franaszek