Posts Tagged ‘Rabbi Tirzah Firestone’
The Theatre of the Miraculous reveals her true colors
2023 the year we learn to listen to life Week 39–in which the Theatre of the Miraculous reveals her true colors Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, On this first day of October, a day that whispers a hint about the magic of the year to come, I’d like to tell you a…
Read MoreDemolition reveals a witch story!
2023 the year we learn to listen to life Week 17–in which bathroom demolition reveals quite the witch story Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, In that first year of Covid and quarantine, I, like everyone, couldn’t miss the inequities of life in this country. Some people, largely of European extraction, found ways…
Read MoreSolstice calls us to sit in the womb of the Mother
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 50–in which we enter the womb of the Mother to listen for the sound and scent of wonders to come in 2023 Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, I spent Friday with my two favorite astrologers, cos-mythologist Marcia Wade, and shamanic astrologer…
Read MoreOur 3rd annual Winter Solstice gathering is now open
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 49–in which we pause to consider the mystery and magic that awaits us in the sacred return of the Light at Winter Solstice Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, First, let me say I’m floored by how much you loved last Sunday’s…
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 MorePluto: Astrologer Emma Mitchell answers questions about the planet of transmutation
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 6–in which we fasten our seatbelts because February is the tipping point Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, In last Sunday’s Notes from the Field, I talked about the impact Pluto is having on the planet as he marches across the United State’s…
Read MoreLove asks us to do some reckoning
2022 the year we learn to listen to love Week 5–in which we realize that love requires reckoning Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, When my son came home from college the summer after his freshman year, we were talking in the living room one evening about something in the news that upset…
Read MoreThe magic is coming in 9 days
The year of the body–Week 50 in which we remember the ancient story and our place in the story Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I set out to write a very different Notes from the Field than the one you have in your hands. I had an outline. I had a plan. But…
Read MoreRabbi Tirzah has some Magic for us at the Winter Solstice
The year of the body–Week 49 in which we are invited to dance with magic of the Sacred Feminine at Solstice Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I am just now recovering from the Lunar Eclipse on November 19, when an intense birth experience happened—a birth that will reveal something important about the life…
Read MoreWhat did you read this year that cracked you open?
The year of the body–Week 48 in which we remember the books that mattered Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Thank you for all your sweet supportive emails and comments on Facebook and YouTube about my experiences moving through this massive birth portal time of eclipse and looking back. It’s lovely to hear that…
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 MoreIs tonight the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?
“Stop being so small. You have the whole universe within you.” Rumi Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, Tonight, Sunday, December 20 is the eve of a most auspicious Winter (Summer down under) Solstice. For the first time in 800 years, Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets in our solar system, are coming so close that…
Read MoreThe heavens invite us to learn to fly this Winter Solstice
“Many thousands of years ago ancient seers understood revering the Sun as the highest symbol of divine consciousness and its light the spiritual source of creation” The Path of the Spiritual Sun, Belsebuub When Rabbi Tirzah and I followed a shared intuition to offer a winter gathering to release 2020 and welcome 2021, we were focused…
Read MoreWhat wants to be reborn on Winter Solstice?
On this first weekend of December, I am reminded that the Winter Solstice always ushers in something I’m not expecting or requesting. It is a gift. A gift that is sacred, wise, and holy. And always—always—it is a surprise. Even though I know this is a sacred time of rebirth as we await the return…
Read MoreAre you ready to Exhale!
Before you read this Notes from the Field, stop for a second and notice how you are breathing. Smooth and gentle? Fast and thin? Perhaps a bit short or rough around the edges? Until someone calls us to notice our breath, we’re pretty oblivious. In addition to being oblivious to our personal breath, we tend…
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?”…
Read MoreWhat makes an “original prayer” original?
“Creation has been left incomplete, and human beings, that is all of us, are needed by creation–and the Creator–to do the ongoing work of completing it.” Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, The Receiving Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, What makes an original prayer, original? There’s a question I never expected to ponder. It’s not a question…
Read MoreA personal message from Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
“In mystical terms, each of us is an entire world or garden unto ourselves. And just as there was a healing tree at the center of the Garden of Eden, so each of us has a healing tree at the center of our individual psyches.” Rabbi Tirzah Firestone Fellow Carriers of the Original Starter, (keep…
Read MoreWhat Kabbalah can tell us about the meaning of Covid-19
“It strikes me as ironic that the coronavirus was given the name COVID-19 by the World Health Organization. Strangely, COVID bears the same consonants as Cavod or Kavod, the ancient Hebrew word for glory, honor, or divine Presence.” Rabbi Tirzah Firestone Fellow Pilgrims, And yes, I do believe we are all pilgrims now. In the past,…
Read MoreEpisode 10: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
This intimate conversation with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, author of Wounds into Wisdom, drops into a whole new place—a holy and sacred place.
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