Rattling the Bones

Samhain or Halloween is coming up this weekend. I noticed by going through past blogs that I haven’t written on this topic yet. Nothing like “laughing-out-loud” considering it is the most important celebration of the year for me and my family. I guess that’s a given considering pretty much every member of my inner circle can see and talk to ghosts. Who doesn’t love Halloween? For most people it’s about children, costumes, nightmares and candy. It’s meant to be a lot of fun. In the last decade I’ve noticed a growing interest in Halloween amongst young adults. I know my grown children who are 20 and 21 years old have celebrated Halloween their whole lives and don’t plan to stop now. Every year, they give a lot of attention to the characters they plan to embody for Halloween night and literally take the whole ritual of creating it quite seriously. Coming from a family of traditional dreamers they both understand how shape shifting into “dream characters” not only speaks about ...

We offer approximately four workshops a year. G offers a workshop on “Sacred Touch” almost every year while I offer a workshop on “Moons” (for women only) about every four years. For the last 5 years we’ve been traveling to Jasper and Golden teaching the “Way of the Medicine Wheel” and guiding people in self-discovery and personal growth. A Teaching on Traditional Dreaming is another theme we explore in conferences and workshops. What makes the Great Gathering week different than any other workshop is that it caters to our inner hero and how “it” devotes to the dreaming and the collective. We’re all called to be great and to be Medicine. We are all called to accept a role and to take on a purpose to help the Planet and the creatures on it. The Great Gathering workshop; which we give every year explores all kinds of themes relating to our higher self and to being in service. I have great memories from every Great Gathering. The GG workshop is always phenomenal and always leave...

Not to say that people shouldn’t travel to Machu Picchu in Peru; or Tibet; but the fact of the matter is there are sacred sites to visit in every country and none are better or less powerful than another. A decade ago I remember traveling to Malacete sacred sites on the border of Quebec and N.B. with a Mexican initiate of ours. She expected to find a pyramid because that’s what she was used to; but instead she stood by a rubble of stones not taller than 8 feet high where a circle of 40 people could stand side by side around it, holding hands. She wasn’t very impressed at first and even poked fun at the sites. I remember telling her "the sacred sites would prove themselves equal to Machu Picchu by the end of the next moon." She frowned in disbelief; but a month later she was literally eating her words. The manifestations following her visit, her prayers and the ceremony at the site were not only memorable; but phenomenally impossible to explain. ‘Til this day she is ...

From my journal. I woke up this morning watching the sunrise in the horizon. The colors in the sky were mirrored on earth by the autumn trees. I found it incredible: Yellow, orange and red swallowing up the Full Moon of Reason (11th moon on the Wheel) and an infinity of stars. Thoughts and insights bubbled to the surface. For a moment I couldn’t tell the difference between my dreams, and the mix of thoughts and emotions moving through me. It was surely a moment of perfection. On the Medicine Wheel it’s the Moon of Drama (3rd moon), which teaches us about the wisdom of beauty. I remember learning this lesson through my daughter. At three years old, she imitated a myriad of people, things and situations. KT loved the way I talked on the phone. Soon she had my mannerisms memorized and was showing me how I looked when I did my babbling... By watching my toddler copy the world around her, I was able to learn more about her and about what she loves out of life. As they say: “...