Our May podcast episode is from the archives--all the way back to May of 2017! However, I think it still speaks of something of which I continue to write: may we savor normal days and blue skies. This is where the magic is.
"When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you’re standing under the sky."
--L.R.KNOST
In the recording, I share a story about Mark and I setting off through the woods to the bigger spring, even though we technically didn't "have time" and "should" have been doing something else. We didn't have anything with us (except for some goddess figures...of course!) and we weren't really prepared for a hike through the woods, but we did it anyway. I am in love with discovery. I love observing the world, feeling it, breathing it, being it. As we walked, the air was literally scented like roses and I was so alive as we explored. THIS is it to me. This is goddess. Life in the palm of her hand.
“Don’t just read about the Goddess, LOVE HER, listen to Her, reflect
Her as the Earth and Moon reflect the Sun. Don’t just study Nature,
put your hands in the dirt, your feet on the forest trail, turn your
face to the wind and breathe Nature in and out of your lungs. Feel the
connection. No books required.”
--Esra Free, Wicca 404: Advanced Goddess Thealogy
"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from
you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of
some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not
always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in
the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more
than all the world, your return."
--Mary Jean Iron, in Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much
Affirmation for the week: I am as free as I allow myself to be.
