Like a ripe seedpod bursting open, I announce my growing counseling
practice. My passion for working with others
on their spiritual path has evolved through the years and become central to
my life.
For 30 years I was a business owner, landscape designer and
laborer, living on a mountain top in rural Massachusetts. For the most part, service to the Goddess and
to Spirit was my personal journey. But coming
to Ontario I felt a greater desire to serve others.
So I pulled out my old and somewhat rusty M.Ed. and polished
it to a bright, shiny star and placed it at the apex of my firmament. When I took a good look at the twists and turns
my path has taken since my student days of the mid-1970’s, I found that a
strong thread connects my new work to passions that were always present.
Years of workshops and study groups, women’s circles and readings,
Witch camps and silent meditation retreats; they each revealed another step
along this path unfolding; a path that I walked simply because it called.
As is so often the case in life, it is only when we look
back that we can see where we have come. In the late 1990’s I gardened for an
elderly gentleman, creating a living gift for his beloved wife of 60
years. During this time I also had my first
experience of The Goddess speaking through me and I was moved to share the experience with him. I will never forget his response.
“Just look at who [The Goddess] you are talking with.
You won't know what this all means until you look back at it 20 years
from now!”
He was right.
And although it’s not quite 20 years, Her instructions echo in my heart,
“It’s all very well and good this cocoon you’ve made for yourself with the
flowers and the plants. But you must
leave it in order to fly!”
As I look back I see an unbroken strand stretching from
those early studies through the years of motherhood and living on the land;
taking trainings and offering them, singing in circles; honoring each others’
voices and the voices of the unseen ones.
This strand stretches through the years of working with the Earth, honoring
the cycles of the seasons and the cycles of the Moon, honing my awareness of
the world seen and unseen while deepening and opening to a richer day-to-day
life.
In welcoming you to my website/blog, I welcome myself into
this, the third part of my life, the Time of the Elder. Now is the time to harvest any wisdom I have
gathered in the service of those who come.
When you look back over your life’s path, what strands
create the path you walk?
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