What if the seasons told a story of belonging?
A reflection on rewilding the soulscape, Celtic creation wisdom, and remembering our ecological belonging through story, ritual, and sacred phenology.
What if Myths are Maps?
Myths, Maps and the Holy Ground Beneath Our Feet: In the Celtic imagination, Earth is not inert ground—it is alive, animate, and ensouled. The stories we call myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and legends arise from specific landscapes and carry the voice of the land itself. These stories are not mere entertainment—they are maps, mirrors, and medicine. Myths are waymarkers: they reveal the spirit of a place and reflect the evolving soul of the one who listens.
Lunar Leadings
Today, I’m thrilled to release Lunar Leadings: a year-long companion rooted in the wisdom of the full moons and the wild liturgy of the living world.
This book gathers twelve cycles of ritual, reflection, and nature-based spiritual practice—woven from my own decades of following the moon as a sacred teacher. Whether you’re an individual seeking grounding rhythms, a family longing for simple rituals that get you outside, or a small group ready to rewild your faith together, Lunar Leadings offers a spacious and soulful way in.
Lover Earth
We often refer to the Earth as our Mother Earth, and in this way of relating project a whole bunch of attitudes towards Earth that we might project upon our own mothers. What if we imagined the Earth as our Lover instead? How could this conjugal style of relating transform our interrelationship with this sacred planet?
Michaelmas: Lay Down the Sword
The nature of myths, just like the rhythms of the Earth, is that they are subject to change. In fact, if they don’t evolve in responsive nature to cultures and context, there is likely a fundamental flaw to them. When we decolonize our myths, inviting our heroes to become prophets and poets, what happens to the story? Does it emasculate it? Or do we actually pick up on an ancient sacred whisper exclaiming how they’ve been waiting for this version of the story to be told? Read on for my annual reflections on the Michaelmas festival and story.
Michaelmas: Embracing the Dragon
Michaelmas is the feast day on the Christian calendar when the archangel Michael is celebrated. Intentionally situated near the Autumn Equinox and the quickly darkening days, this festival requires a mythological imagination as we seek light within our communities and courage to face the dragons in our midst!
Autumn Equinox: Healing Ritual with Elderberries
What do you do when Hildegard of Bingen’s feast day, the Autumn Equinox, and your elderberry bush is ready for harvest? Oh, and we are in a global pandemic and fires are raging up the western coast? Create a healing ritual out of the creation of elderberry syrup. Read on for a simple recipe you can make from home.
Rewilding Rites-of-Passage Retreat
I had the honor of creating a Rewilding | Rites of Passage Retreat for my daughter’s 10 year birthday. On this significant turning, we gift our children with a dagger, a symbol of the potent question: Will you be a Life-Giver or a Life-Taker? It was a powerful time together and I am excited about imagining how to offer this kind of retreat for parent/child dyads in the future!
Rewilding Wheel Seven Directions Prayer
The Seven Directions Prayer includes the directions of up (Cosmos), down (Earth), and within (Soulscape). This expands the prayerful imagination to include the universal principals of diversity, particularity, interiority, and communion. It honors the indigenous tradition of knowing that God’s presence is as diverse and particular as the directions, and invites the supplicant to ground their prayers in a place.
Half Season Celebration | Lammas: Gratitude for the First Harvest
Happy Lammas! Celebrate this liminal day of Summer, an ancient festival day that honors the mid-season of Summer, by creating your own garden harvesting ceremony.
Summer Solstice Celebration
There are a spectrum of gorgeous and nourishing herbs and flowers that are a’bloom around the Summer Solstice. Learn a bit more about the Summer Solstice, and create a ritual of celebration that includes a blessing, fire, and sacramental eating! Attuning to these seasonal shifts is a meaningful way to continue your rewilding journey.
The Knee at the Neck: The Earth Cries Out "Black Lives Matter!"
Life as we have known it is cracking open, the ruptures revealing great potentiality. These cracks—more like crevasses really—are doing the important work of slowing us down to do the much needed work around diversity, equity and inclusion. These cracks cry out with the collective Black Lives Matter voice, and the cry of the Earth herself. Will we find our rapture? I believe we will, but only after we slow down and recover the lives that are within the rupture.
The Rewilding Wheel: Turning Towards Transformation
The Rewilding Wheel is a sacred circuit that seeks to locate the wisdom of universal nature symbols within one’s particular homescape for the purpose of spiritual formation. Rewilding Community member Lisa has been journeying around the Rewilding Wheel for over a year. Read this thoughtful interview that provides insight into the seasonal practices that can lead to a deeper relationship with the Sacred Wild.
Rising Rooted: How Creation Theology Roots Us in Belonging
A good Creation Theology will be a decolonized theology that is climate-focused. This post originally was a sermon delivered to Lake Burien Presbyterian Church in September 2019, and responds to the question: How does our faith flourish while our forests burn?
Waymarkers: Categories of Inspiration
As I have more opportunities to teach and accompany others on their soul-formation path, I am often asked what are the areas that have most influenced my work and Waymarkers’ offerings. As I was clearing out my office recently, I came upon a writing project and drawing that aimed to get at three primary categories of inspiration and influence. I created this in October 2015 and it is amazing to see how these categories continue to shape and form my thinking and my work!
Autumn Rewilding Retreat | Reclaim the Skin You are Meant to Be In: How Stories of the Selke Guide Our Becoming
An immersive Rewilding Retreat weekend wetted with myth, soul ceremony, ritual, and wild wanderings was just the thing for a group of courageous women who willingly engaged the Celtic story of the Selkie as a way to re-cover and re-member their meant-for-ness.
The Lost Names of God: A Solstice Reflection
What do you do when you lose something? You ponder its whereabouts, and then go out to look for it, and sometimes you end up recovering that which was lost in places that surprise you. We have lost the knowing that the earth is sacred, that we are surrounded by hallowed presences who bear witness to our lives, as well as express their own inherent divine qualities. Seek through the practice of ceremony. Find a recovered and reconnected way of understanding that the holy is Here. And hope beyond hope, may your ceremonial search yield the surprise of the divine ground of being that is within your particular place.
God on a Wing: Winter Rewilding Nature Altar
Setting up a seasonal nature altar within your home is a meaningful way of attuning to the sacred rhythms of the natural world. This post will inspire a craft that will have you engaging with key elements within the Rewilding Wheel.
My Rewilding Year
My personal practice of the Rewilding Wheel invited me into a soul-journey of reconnection to the sacred that is deeply rooted in my bioregion. This practice recovered these roots within the forests, fields, watersheds and mountains of my Pacific Northwest home. Discover what I learned from the spirit of my place!