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Warrior energy is pure dynamic energy. It is active, yang energy. Sometimes it may be referred to as pure masculine energy which works if it describes the energy independent of the male gender.
Warrior energy was developed in tribal cultures such as the Samurai and the Native Americ...
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I woke up this morning to four inches of snow here in Ashland, Oregon. It was extremely quiet and still. It set the tone for the time of introspection in the north on the Medicine Wheel. This introspective energy peaks on the Winter Solstice around December 21st, but it's busy and fe...
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Happy January! We're in the north on the Medicine Wheel which is winter time and post holidays. This represents a time of introspection where we have the opportunity to look at, reevaluate and, understand ourselves at a deeper level.
This year I've been noticing how we as human bein...
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Happy new year, happy 2024. It's the perfect time of year for new promptings, visions, and glimpses of your new life to come to you. It could be things that you'd like to have in your life. It might be: “I'd like to get to know him/her/them better,” “I'd like to dance more,” or “I'd ...
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Happy belated Winter Solstice- it happened on December 21st. To me, the Winter Solstice is about the first light. It's a celebration of the light. This is a little paradoxical because the Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year. But it's a celebration of the return of the lig...
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I want to talk about what I think is one of the most frustrating and misunderstood parts of spirituality and making change. I'm referring to making a change in the way you see myself and the world. So you’re changing your reality, or what it sometimes call, moving from one level of c...
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The essence of bear medicine in my tradition is true strength. The bear can be the clown of the forest because it has no natural enemies. So it has nothing to defend and nothing to prove. So it can just be itself. It trusts itself at a really deep level that it can handle whatever co...
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Several blogs ago I talked about the different levels of consciousness that human beings reside in. I spoke about the challenge of relating to someone who is in a different level of consciousness than you because you're essentially in different realities and experiencing the world ve...
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I'm going to start with a story that actually happened this past week. I work at a hospital in Medford, Oregon and it is going through some serious financial challenges.
We got a new CEO in, and he is saying everything's on the table for cuts and there have been layoffs. And… my cow...
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The holidays are a big deal at the emotional level. We can rationalize our way out of this. We can be a Scrooge. We can say the holidays are no big deal. It's just another day. I work the holidays. I've heard all of these and used most of them. I found out the hard way that the holid...
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A concept that I call contracts is very useful to understand some of the dynamics that happen in relationships. Contracts are agreements that we create with someone else in a relationship. This could be any type of close relationship including romantic, parent, child, sibling, work, ...
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The Medicine Wheel moves through the seasons of the year. The east represents springtime where we initiate our new intention for the year. We develop and learn about that in the south and summer. The west and fall are where we harvest and glean value from the things we cultivated thr...
