Pervasive Pervasive, Symbolic, Enlarged A theology of immanence means treating each thing, animate and inanimate…natural and mand-made, as if it were alive, requiring what each living thing requires above all else: careful attention to its’ properties, their specific...

Energetic   Cunning Unleashed, Penetrating   Hunters prefer to believe in their destructive illusions and ego-invented creeds and are blind to the mammalian need to love the world. But the Queen of the forest long ago recognized their selfish gospels created...

Responsive  Self-Mastery, Strength, Engaged   This force is frightening for many because we have all been preyed upon, and we are uncomfortable with assertions of strength, reflectively disowning our potency or letting it flash abusively. There is enormous power in...

Inventiveness  Creative, Magical, Captivating   Fox is known to be inventive and resourceful, solutions coming quickly to her, miraculously pulling her from danger at the last moment. Though she is a deliberate, confident creature of the day, she is also sure of...

Sacred  Insightful, Spacious, Sensual   Fox is grounded in Tiger energy.   Though clearly there is immense potency within her, she moves as if floating on a river current, leaving an undisturbed trail, barely bending the grasses. For this moment she has settled in...

Nourishing Child-like, Healing, Safe   They teased out the seed that the cold kept asleep— All the coils, loops, and whorls, they trellised the sun; they plotted for more than themselves.                           Theordore Roethke, Frau Bauman, Frau, Schmidt, and...

Inquisitive    Wild, Curious, Open The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. Joseph Campbell. Reflections on the Art of Living   Inquisitiveness—starts the Enlarging. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes...

XI Healing and Growing “Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.” Carl Jung, CW, para 53 Now that I have achieved some loosening of the restraints, no longer at least helpless in the seclusion room up to my neck in a body suit with ribs of unbreakable plastics,...

  Pain into Ritual—A Turning Point Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; More anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned. Yeats, The Second Coming The Bear and child are engaged in a...