Mystic Witch
Who you gonna call in a time of chaos? Why Chaos, of course!
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 39–in which we commit to looking at the world upside down in order to find a way to right ourselves Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer and mystery, It’s been an extraordinary week, hasn’t it. Seven days of change, change, and more…
Read MoreWhen one Queen dies a new Queen is born
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 38–in which we ponder our new archetypes and their symbols Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer and mystery, The Queen has died. This sentence has stirred all kinds of intense and often conflicted feelings around the globe. Some people shrug. Some celebrate.…
Read MoreThe magic waiting at the edge
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 37–in which we ponder our edges, all our edges Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer and mystery, I have been pondering this word edge ever since it arrived as the delicious—dare I say edgy—name of the intensive Marcia Wade and I are creating, Goddesses of the…
Read MoreWhat the Dormouse (and Carl Sagan) said
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 36–in which we follow a wild trail of magic until we hear what the Dormouse said Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, It’s been a most magical week. Not that I planned it. You can’t plan these things. You can prepare, but…
Read MoreAre you an “edge-dweller?”
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 34–in which we ponder what will happen when we spin the Wheel of Fortune! Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, In last Sunday’s Notes from the Field, I mentioned five brilliant storytellers. One of them, Sharon Blackie, is the author of If Women Rose…
Read MoreThe Sky Goddesses want you to hear their stories
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 33–in which we gather around the fire as a great storyteller tells the original stories Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, What is it about the people you love to listen to? What makes them someone you look forward to being with? Think…
Read MoreI almost missed a sacred anniversary
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 32–in which an anniversary creeps up on me and leaves me stunned Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, On Tuesday, August 2, I worked for several hours with cos-mythologist Marcia Wade on a fun, ground-breaking prayer intensive we are cooking up for…
Read MoreWhat is the blueprint of your life?
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 25–in which we peek inside a seed and discover the blueprint in the seed is the blueprint coming to life in each of us Check back for this week’s video! Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, On Tuesday, June 21, in the…
Read MoreJeanne d’Arc has an invitation for you
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 21–in which Jeanne d’Arc and Black Moon Lilith conspire to get our attention Check back for this week’s video! Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, At this time last year, 85 of you were preparing to join me for a radical event, The Return…
Read More“I am that woman”
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 15–in which we remember that we are all those women Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, Today’s Notes from the Field is a prayer. And not just any prayer. I wanted to do something to celebrate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to…
Read MoreWeek 2: An ancient queen frees a modern woman’s voice
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 2–in which an ancient queen frees a modern woman’s voice Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, In last Sunday’s Week 1 Notes from the Field for 2022, we began a 52-week-long walk to learn to listen to love. (If you want to hear…
Read MoreWhy is deep soul writing so radical?
The year of the body–Week 30 in which we remember that deep soul writing was once banned and the book was burned Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, In 1310, a woman was burnt alive because she wrote a book. She had the audacity to write a book about the mystical life, in…
Read MoreIt’s my 73rd birthday and your 73% gift
The year of the body–week 25 in which I celebrate my 73rd birthday and give you a birthday gift Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I turned 73 this week on Wednesday, June 16. On my birthday, I did some soul writing. Nothing surprising there, I do some soul writing every day. But given that…
Read MoreWho does your divine voice say you are?
The year of the body–week 24 in which I look back at my first entry in my first soul writing journal 24 years ago and get a bittersweet surprise Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Twenty-four years ago, on April 23, 1997, I picked up a pen for the first time and something happened.…
Read MoreWhen witches start speaking, magic starts flying
The year of the body–week 23 in which witches start speaking and magic starts flying Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, The Return of the Witches Jeanne d’Arc Listening Pilgrimage has begun. We had a profound Opening Ceremony with Sabin Bailey on Friday and met Queen Jezebel at the foot of Mt Carmel on…
Read MoreThe one question our sacred ancestors want us to ask
The Year of the Body: Week 22 in which a Cathar woman from the 13th century reaches across time to hand us the one question we most need today Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, How much possibility can one week hold: We had an intense lunar eclipse that will reverberate all summer and…
Read MoreWhat miracle will you find at the end of the pilgrim road?
The Year of the Body: 21st week in the 21st year of the 21st century in which #21 shows us the integration and unification waiting for us at the end of the pilgrim road Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Today is the day. The hour has come. The invitation is yours. For…
Read MoreWhat’s the real reason witches were murdered?
The Year of the Body: Week 20 in which the sacred feminine and sacred masculine give birth to a big and holy child Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, This is a most sacred and pregnant moment. And I think it’s not an accident that it is happening during the 20th week of this…
Read MoreWhat mystery connects your body, Mother’s Day, and Joan of Arc?
The Year of the Body: Week 19 in which we step into the female body and discover a mystery or two lurking there Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Today is Mother’s Day in the United States. Mother’s Day is a fraught holiday with deep tendrils in the transition from honoring the female body…
Read MoreI asked Perdita Finn for a message. She sent a story.
The Year of the Body: Week 18 in which we return to 1431 and hear women whispering about the return of a mystery Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, You have heard me sing the praises of the magical mystical Perdita Finn. From the moment I opened The Way of the Rose: The Radical…
Read MoreWill the real Joan of Arc please stand up.
The Year of the Body: Week 17 in which we begin to unravel the mysteries of the most famous mystic witch of all time Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Who was Joan of Arc? There is perhaps no more mysterious or amazing woman in history. She is the only person condemned by a…
Read MoreWhat will happen when you open a door with an ancient carved moon?
The Year of the Body: Week 12 in which the word witch reveals her ancient and holy meaning at the perfect moment–the Equinox Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, On December 26, 2019, I was awakened in the night with a new prayer, The Queen’s Love—a prayer that I am only now, on this…
Read MoreP is for Perpetrator. But who is the perpetrator?
The Year of the Body: Week 11 in which the body reveals the secret spot where the perpetrator is buried Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I have spent the last week thinking about perpetrators. Not because I want to. Who wants to focus on the pain one person inflicts on another. But…
Read MoreA personal message from mystic Tanya Taylor Rubinstein about Somatic Writing
The Year of the Body: Week 10 in which the body experiences miracles Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, This has been a week of miracles. Not the miracles that look like buckets of money or anything tangible like that. But miracles nonetheless. I’m inclined to think these ephemeral miracles—the ones that cannot…
Read MoreYour body knows something valuable about you
The Year of the Body: Week 7 in which our bodies reveal the true source of our value, great ideas, and confidence Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. In theory, it’s a sweet holiday but in reality, children’s hearts are broken when they don’t receive many valentines.…
Read MoreLet’s talk about that icy black puddle you keep stepping in…
The Year of the Body: Week 6 in which Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow and winter continues…or maybe not! Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, This week was ripe with mystical dates. Dates that, if it weren’t for the humorous celebration of Groundhog Day, I would have missed. And I bet you missed them too.…
Read MoreYour dead are calling. Do you know how to listen?
The Year of the Body: Week 4 in which our bodies exhale, our hearts celebrate, and our prayers resuscitate the dead Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, And we thought 2020 was intense. Ha! In just three Wednesdays, we’ve reeled from watching a live insurrection on TV, to applauding the second impeachment of a…
Read MoreIt’s time to Take Back the Magic
As we enter week 3 in 2021, the year of the body, we can’t help but wonder what will happen now? None of us knows for sure; we’re all holding our breath. You may not be conscious of it, but you probably haven’t taken a long sweet cleansing breath since you saw a crazed right-wing mob…
Read MoreYour body knows what really happened this week
We just lived through the first week of 2021. A year, I said in last Sunday’s Notes from the Field, would be the year of the BODY. And what a first week! We watched an angry mob of white male bodies screaming and circling the US Capitol building, crash into the building and crush the…
Read MoreHow did the mandala I made in January know what would happen?
In a year of one magical and mysterious week after another, this one was a topper. And in a way I never, ever expected. This week, I was reminded just how alive the mandalas we create in The Lotus and The Lily are. You’d think I’d know this. After all, I’ve led Lotus and Lily…
Read MoreNow, about that bat bite…
Well, this has been quite the wild week, hasn’t it! How much misery and mystery can one week hold? In the Misery department: The US government admitted that the parents of 545 immigrant children can’t be found. And anyone with a heart cried. A judge who is the diametric opposite of everything Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
Read MoreA Lotus and Lily like no other
The emails have begun. I get a flurry of them this time of year from people anxious to register for The Lotus and The Lily prayer intensive that opens in mid-November and always sells out. But this year your emails have a more frantic tone. For 10 years, mystic souls around the world have gathered for 5 weeks starting in mid-November…
Read MoreThe dots that connect prayer, miracle, safety, home
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Roald Dahl I prepare to write these Sunday Notes from the Field by spending Saturday reviewing all that happened in the last seven days in my deep soul writing journal. Even after 23 years, I am surprised by what surfaces. Bits and pieces that seem unrelated suddenly…
Read MoreShe called me a witch…
“Most men have never had to fear sticking out from the crowd far enough to elicit the heart-stopping accusation of ‘Witch!’ Ancient female wisdom–medical and otherwise–accumulated painstakingly over eons went up in flames along with the ‘witches.’ How to calculate and comprehend how much European civilization lost when its men nearly annihilated its wise women?”…
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