Writing
Essays on the medicine hidden in the stories we're told to dismiss: romance novels read for what they're actually doing, astrology read for what it's asking, and the liminal ground between what was and what's becoming.
Every piece arrives on Substack first, where you can subscribe and have it land in your inbox, like a letter. The archive gathers here.
The Mafioso at the Threshold
Our internal resistance studied at the university of You—weaponizing your own values to keep you from changes that part of you knows are inevitable. The exhausting truth: it takes more energy to refuse transformation than to surrender to it.
Falling in Love with the In‑Between - The Dating Game Version
An exploration of life’s doorways and the liminal landscapes between them — where low‑stakes love stories become maps, “fluff” becomes a refuge, and archetypal lovers step forward to guide us across.
Romancing the Threshold
From Comfort Reads to Cultural Alchemy — Reimagining the Worlds We Long to Create
Real imagined conflicts - Saturn & Neptune in Aries
The easy simplicity of going towards war, as opposed to facing the terrifying conflict within.
'Heart song'* - on Desire and Trust
The journey between Mind and Heart is liminality at its purest. It's the choppy waters of the sea crossing between the mind's patterns and trusting your heart's desires.
The Return - Part 2 - The Unfurling
On elemental medicine, life's roots are in the bones of the dead and Celestine Prophecy moments. In today's post, I hope to share the intersection of the outer pilgrimage with my inner landscape.
The Return - Part 1
Slowly integrating into my homecoming after a pilgrimage around Scotland.
It's been a week since I returned home from my trip to Scotland.
Approaching Liminality as a Pilgrimage
Liminal times are not a neat crossing from ‘what was’ to ‘what is yet to be’. Because between death & rebirth - the ampersand in the middle is the pilgrimage.
We're all foreigners in Liminal Times
As we leave the perceived known world of 'what was' and venture further into the waters of these liminal times, the experience of 'becoming the other' becomes pronounced as we build our new selves.
“The gods have become our diseases.”
C.G. Jung was on to something as his quote shows. But how can we heal from our diseased relationship with the bigger forces that demand reconnection with us?
Entranced vs Enchanted
On enriching your relationship with Neptune during these chaotically creative times.
Keeping it sane during liminal times
Keeping it sane while also holding the tension of the opposites in these initiatory times of death & rebirth.
An antidote to fear
Fear is the imagination killer. It may serve to shake us awake, but it depletes our ability to be creative as we venture into the thick of these liminal times.
The Healing Power of Fluff
On the liminal journey of grief and being stirred awake by joy and a lust for life.
Lessons learned at the liminal edge of death
A first entrée of reflections on what I learned from being in liminality between life and death.
Pause at the Threshold
Sensing the initiation before crossing the threshold, compliments of Saturn.
The ending is the beginning
All beginnings start in the womb of death, in the loosening of old ways of being.
Resistance and Surrender with Plant Medicine
What I've learned about the descent, the guides and gatekeepers at the threshold of a liminal journey from a 'textbook bad trip.'