by Chris Maddox | Mar 30, 2022 | WILD WOMAN
Dear Ones, The very first New Moon of the Season is here! To celebrate & honor it, we have a very special prayer poem from Diane Ackerman, essayist, poet & naturalist, along with a couple of practices to go with. Ackerman explains the original intention...
by Chris Maddox | Mar 17, 2022 | WILD WOMAN
Dear One, The Full Moon has arrived & Spring is waiving her maiden hand over the horizon. Change is in the air. Do you feel it? Do you see it? This Full Moon, I offer you a Soul-treat: A meditation crafted and facilitated by Nina Paris. In these 20 minutes she...
by Chris Maddox | Mar 1, 2022 | WILD WOMAN
Dear One, The last New Moon of the Season is here. The natural world is in an in-between time now, a kind of liminal space. Do you feel it? To honor this New Moon time, we have a very special poem from our beloved wild woman elder, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. This...
by Chris Maddox | Feb 13, 2022 | WILD WOMAN
True friendship is a Soul-treasure of the highest order. Sometimes, in the busyness of the day to day life, especially as we age, we can forget this. Yet each time one is in the presence of a true friend, time itself seems to fade away. The ticking clock & the...
by Chris Maddox | Jan 29, 2022 | WILD WOMAN
Dear One, We stand at the threshold between one moon cycle and the next. It is a particularly good time to take a little pause to retreat inward, just as the Moon seems to retreat behind the night’s sky. Poetry helps us with such things. Today we have the...
by Chris Maddox | Dec 31, 2021 | WILD WOMAN
Happy New Year & New Moon to you! Today, we reach back through time to find a short, yet potent, poem written 1000 years ago in Japan by the great Izumi Shikibu. In it, Skhikibu expresses what so many of us have felt standing underneath the moon. Feel free to...
