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Soulful activism: The courage to feel it all

Posted on Jul 11, 2025 in Healing, Poetry, Spiritual living, Uncategorized

Stillness can feel unbearable. Facing what we’re actually feeling or hearing in the moment feels like too much. But when we avoid it, we miss the truth waiting just beneath the surface – the pain, the sorrow, the fear of uncertainty. And yet, that’s exactly where healing, and soulful activism, begins.

So much of today’s human suffering stems from our resistance to sitting with discomfort. You can see it everywhere in the constant push toward the next high, the next achievement, the next distraction. It shows up in the rage and vicious backlash when someone’s beliefs are questioned or contradicted.

In 2016, these same questions were stirring in me and I gave them voice in a poem inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Spiritual guidance June/July 2025: Chaos and creation

Posted on Jun 24, 2025 in Spiritual living, Tarot, Uncategorized

Here’s my spiritual guidance June/July 2025, covering the lunar month beginning with the Cancer new moon on June 25th at 11.32am (in the UK) running up to and including July 24th. Every new lunar month I draw one card from the Thoth Tarot to spark intuitive insight about the key energy to navigate by during the coming four weeks. I then take a quick look at the astrology.

Spiritual guidance June/July 2025 inspired by the Tarot

Following on from The Magus of last month, I’ve drawn another major arcana card – The Tower. It’s a potent sign of transformation and rebirth, and what I speak of here may well continue to pulse through the next six months, thanks to the recent potent Summer Solstice on June 21st.

One step at a time; spiritual walking practice

Posted on Jun 14, 2025 in Healing, Spiritual living, Uncategorized

A couple of weeks ago, my partner, our collie companion, and I set off on a ten-day walking holiday, each day unfolding spontaneously from the base of our camper van. The deep restoration we felt – body, heart, and spirit – moved me to write this reflection on a spiritual walking practice.

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I walk, and my body sings. There’s a rhythm in my hips, a primal pulse rising up from my feet. Step by step, I fall into the ancient poetry of motion – one foot, then the other, again and again. It soothes. It centres. It returns me to myself.

Spiritual guidance June 2025: Life’s what you make it

Posted on May 21, 2025 in Spiritual living, Tarot, Uncategorized

Here’s my spiritual guidance June 2025, covering the lunar month beginning with the Gemini new moon on May 27th at 4.02am (in the UK) up to and including June 24th. Every new lunar month I draw one card from the Thoth Tarot to spark intuitive insight about the key energy to navigate by during the coming four weeks. I then take a quick look at the astrology.

Spiritual guidance June 2025 inspired by the Tarot

This month moves fast. You’ll juggle many demands, just like the Magus on the card. Stay flexible, responsive, and open to change and it can be enjoyable. Spiritual energy surges now, urging you to act in service of the divine plan on Earth. Regeneration begins here. This is the spiritualisation of matter – bringing soul into every form it touches.

A fox at the threshold: Beauty, loss, and a wild farewell

Posted on May 15, 2025 in Spiritual living, Uncategorized

It was a bright late afternoon, the kind that has become familiar in recent weeks – soft gold slanting through blossoming hedgerows, the road humming gently beneath the wheels. I was nearly home, lulled by the quiet rhythm of the drive, when something glimmered on the edge of consciousness. Turning into the narrow lane that led into the valley cradling my little hamlet, the ordinary moment cracked open.

There, sudden and still as a statue in a dream, stood a fox.