by JoAnne Dodgson | Sep 1, 2024 | Blog
We live in a universe, on a planet, and in bodies that are intricate weavings of cycles within cycles within cycles. Wherever we are on our earth, we are moving toward Equinox. This shift in the earth’s seasons has been honored for centuries in diverse human cultures...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Aug 1, 2024 | Blog
Dandelions color the landscapes with vibrant green leaves and bursts of gold blossoms. They are one of the first flowering plants to root in the earth and reach toward the sun, celebrating the awakening of spring. Dandelions beckon the pollinators out of their wintery...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jul 1, 2024 | Blog
Grandmother Corn is an Ancient Onewho shares the medicine ofplentyenoughnesslush nourishmentabundance Everyone’s included in the bountiful sharingnobody’s left out of the beauty and richnesswalls don’t separate the haves from have-notsthere is...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jun 19, 2024 | Blog
Solstice is a particular alignment between our earth and sun, a cosmic happening that shapes unique seasonal shifts in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. For centuries, humans have been honoring Solstice in remarkable ways in diverse cultures and lands. In a...
by JoAnne Dodgson | May 30, 2024 | Blog
I’m moving home. It’s a big leap ~ from here to there, bridging endings with beginnings, and reorienting my inner landscape in relationship with the physical world. My quests for home, to find my people, to live my passions and purposes, have led to many...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 21, 2024 | Blog
A flowing river of Elk leapt over a barbed wire fence. Awed by the sight, I pulled my car to the side of the road and rolled down my window to listen and watch. The herd was made up of at least one hundred elk, a multi-generational group, still adorned with thick...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Apr 1, 2024 | Blog
Elders say the wheel of life is turning in the direction of regeneration, a time to re-seed our inner landscapes and physical world with love, harmony, and balance. The out-of-balance ways are coming undone and falling apart. We are standing in a threshold between...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Mar 1, 2024 | Blog
In the threshold between our earth’s seasons, we gather the gifts of what is and has been while moving with the momentum of change. Each step we take, every choice we make, each thought we think and word that we speak, shapes what’s coming alive in our...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Jan 1, 2024 | Blog
Today I saw a butterflyher blue speckled wingsglistened in the sunlightthe magic of her metamorphosisdanced around in the winds She flew over the sagebrushand landed on red sandy soilresting awhileopening and closing her wingsa silent rhythmic drumbeatsending wave...
by JoAnne Dodgson | Dec 19, 2023 | Blog
Solstice, Equinox, and New Moon are my cherished holidays. I’m drawn toward these transitional passages, awed by their essential part in creation, curious about the purposes and effects of such vast and ancient natural cycles. The shifting of seasons, the...