Posts Tagged ‘labyrinth’
Why I couldn’t wear a witch costume
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 44–in which this witch has a few things to say about witches at Halloween Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, As a child, I hated Halloween. I hated dressing up. And I especially hated all the creepy witch costumes. I never dressed…
Read MoreListen as 2021 sings her song on a labyrinth
The year of the body–Week 46 in which we listen carefully and hear 2021 sing her song Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, The 12th edition of The Lotus and the Lily opens today, Monday, November 15. After leading 11 groups in this magical process starting in 2010, you might assume I understand this 30-day…
Read MoreWhat was done to women is what was done to prayer
I was awakened in the wee hours last Sunday morning and clearly heard: “What was done to women is what was done to prayer.” I thought I understood—at least a little—what that meant. Because I’ve been studying what was done to women under patriarchy, and, as a prayer artist, exploring how gorgeous prayer was before…
Read MoreThe 5 prayers in the lost mystical tradition
I had a lot of plans for today’s Notes from the Field. In fact, I had so many delicious topics related to the labyrinth that I was having trouble picking what to write about in this last newsletter before we open a new prayer intensive on Tuesday. I thought I might talk about the labyrinth…
Read MoreThe labyrinth has a voice and she is speaking to you
Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, The labyrinth has a voice. And I experienced it this morning. Here’s what happened. In the night, I saw myself stepping onto a labyrinth for my daily anointing practice. I didn’t write anything on the yellow pad that is always in bed with me, so I think I…
Read MoreWhat will you discover in the Mother’s embrace?
Describing the first time she walked the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, Lauren Artress wrote: “I feel we had touched the Holy Spirit. Each of us had ventured to the center of our beings in the Chartres labyrinth that day. I received the embrace of Mary. I had, unknown to me at that time, ventured into…
Read MoreWhat will you hear when you stop, really stop?
“The labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral is created out of 272 stones inlaid in the floor of the nave…each stone representing one day of human gestation in the mother’s womb.” Lauren Artress, The Sacred Path Companion Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, There is so much bubbling up right now. And I’ve had to…
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