What if the most radical gift of Christmas isn’t a figure placed above us, but love moving through us?
In this episode, I offer a gentler, truer frame for Christmas - one that steps out of hierarchy and returns us to the living circle of belonging. Drawing from an experience that stayed alive in my field after hearing Robin Wall Kimmerer speak, and from the heart of Yeshua’s teachings, we explore how a pyramid worldview quietly shapes our relationships with God, the Earth, and ourselves - often without our consent.
The pyramid trains us to measure, perform, and strive.
The circle remembers kinship, interdependence, and shared light.
Together, we look at the subtle ways hierarchy shows up in religion, culture, family systems, and even spirituality, and how this lens turns teachers into unreachable authorities, the Earth into a resource, and holiness into something we must earn. We then reimagine a different way of being - where a teacher is a point of light in a shared constellation, a tree is an ancestor, not an object, and Jesus returns not as an icon above humanity, but as luminous kin whose embodiment awakens what already lives within us.
This reflection isn’t abstract. It shapes how we speak to ourselves, how we take and return to the land, how we relate to power, and how we repair when a link in the strand goes dim.
The episode closes with a gentle, guided meditation - a simple image of a Christmas tree wrapped in light - inviting you to feel interconnection in your body rather than just understand it with your mind.
If you’ve ever felt weary of striving, disillusioned with hierarchy, or quietly certain that the sacred was never meant to be distant, this episode is an invitation to remember what you already know.
You are not meant to climb toward the holy.
You are part of it.
