Stephanie | May 25, 2011
The Native American Bear Woman is protector of Mother Earth and the tribes and clans that walk upon her. Bear Woman is in her cycle of power during spring and summer. She has moved out of her cave with her cubs underfoot, and is foraging for food and water. She is a shapeshifter who moves [...]
Stephanie | April 17, 2011
As Easter approaches, the Anglo-Saxon goddess, Ostara, fills our days with spring blossoms, colored eggs, and bunny sightings. Like all spring goddesses, she brings with her new ideas, new beginnings, rebirth, and hope. In the Christian tradition, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Christ, but in ancient times spring festivals celebrated the arrival of the goddess [...]
Stephanie | April 3, 2011
A springtime goddess in the Hopi tradition, she flutters into our hearts to remind us to taste life–butterflies taste flowers by walking on them–and to connect with nature. Butterfly Maiden is a kachina spirit of fertility and spiritual growth. Kachinas carry the prayers of the people to the ancestors in the spirit world. For the [...]
Stephanie | January 9, 2011
Wolf Moon
Stephanie | November 22, 2010
Embarking on a creative journey brings up a lot of fear and resistance in me. First I am bubbling and bursting with ideas, and then I start to create and manifest them, and then often I find the downpour becomes a drizzle until it fizzles out, another project not completed. So I have been working [...]
Stephanie | July 30, 2010
Welcome to the SoulCollage® blog party where you can see what SoulCollagers have been assembling. Thanks, Kathryn Antyr at True North Arts for hosting! I had a great time putting my SoulCollage® cards together–some old, some new–and creating a story of Heartwork… Work of the eyes is done now. Go and do heartwork On all [...]
Stephanie | February 15, 2010
Lauri Maerov, my friend, writer, and co-facilitator for the Create Your Vision 2010 Playshop, and I were so pleased with the way we combined the process of making SoulCollage cards and vision boards that we are wanting to collaborate again in the future. (She will soon have a blog with her own creative visions and [...]
Stephanie | December 27, 2009
In the time between Christmas and New Year my favorite things are: Resting and enjoying my home and family Yesterday my hubby Rob and I went for a bike ride into town in 60 degree weather and had tea at The Open Eye. We went to see Avatar last night–loved it. See it in 3-D! [...]
Stephanie | July 8, 2009
For some reason, as these things go, I have been seeing lots of spiders, reading spider lore, and learning about two women, Greta Binford and Maydianne Andrade, who study spiders. I have also been noticing spider webs lately — wherever I go, it seems — glistening in the sunlight. There’s a spider that has built [...]
Stephanie | May 28, 2009
This painting by Meinrad Craighead is my favorite. I love her mystical artwork that celebrates the divine feminine and animal spirits, particularly those that inhabit the New Mexico land near the Rio Grande, where she lives. I recently saw the documentary film about her life called Praying With Images last week, a beautiful biographical portrait [...]
