When we wore skins close to our skin, clothed in danger faced and overcome,
When darkness meant crouching at cave-fire smoke screens from ravenous roars and biting cold,
Did we bare souls to each other beside our visceral vulnerability?
Were our hearts as wildly wide as uncertainty of being?
Is it brick box borders and interminable light
That have shaped us to shun the shaky and unsure?
Is bulletproof a modern melody?
Or did we praise impervious to spear and arrow even then?
I wonder when we learned to hold our kind at bay as fiercely as our predators,
Who drew first blood and why.
No matter, it was done.
But here and now I go shield-shy,
I wear my fragile heart on my gossamer sleeve
And welcome loss and pain and grief as warmly to my hearth
As more congenial company.
I may shatter, crack and splinter but my open fire
Will forge the malleable mettle of compassion and understanding.
Semele Xerri
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A coastal walk revealed something magical 🌊
As the sea spray rose, shapes began to form, first dancing figures… then a face. Zooming in, I saw the laughing Old Woman of the Sea looking back at me. Take a look… 👁️
#SeaMagic #Elementals
As we leave the Easter weekend, this is what my heart is singing:
"We all live under the same sky
We all will live, we all will die
There is no wrong, there is no right
The circle only has one side"
- Lyrics from "Side" by Travis
Full Moon in Libra today🌕
A moment of completion and rebalancing.
Where do you feel out of alignment?
What’s disrupting your sense of harmony - fear, relationships, boundaries?
Listen to your body and intuition. They already know the way back.
#LibraFullMoon #Balance
The natural world is always in conversation with you.
When you’re grieving, it shows you life continues.
When you feel alone, it keeps you company.
Whatever needs healing, the earth offers its quiet balm 🌿
#NatureHeals #EarthWisdom
You can’t fully shine your light without meeting your shadow. They’re not separate - they shape each other.
It takes courage to go there, but that’s where transformation begins.
#ShadowWork #PersonalGrowth