Dear Beloved Community,

The past few months have been profoundly transformative, marked by challenges, loss, healing, and moments of grace. I want to share my journey with you, one that’s taken me through hurricanes, a heart attack, and deep realizations about the importance of community and change.

September - October: Hurricane Helene’s Wrath

In late September, Hurricane Helene swept through Asheville, leaving devastation in its wake. I was fortunate my home was spared from the w...

The Council of Twelve

“Greetings and radiant blessings from the Realms of Light.  We greet your heart and encourage it to keep opening, even in the midst of the chaos of these times.  Open-hearted loving is called for now – meeting everyone, no matter what their persuasions, with unconditional love.

What is going to happen here?  So many widely differing “truths” and so much media-induced fear.

From our view beyond reality, we see possibilities of a great awakening, of many evolving to an inn...

It was never my goal to become a Mystic.

I began studying religion in college. 

While working in my second church, I realized I could feel no sense of "Spirit" there. 

It felt more like a business than a holy place. 

For years, I had been very active in the Methodist church, as a local, state-wide and regional officer in youth fellowship. Despite this work in the church, I found myself, at 27 years of age, doubting if God even existed. 

Shortly after this time, I began dancing with the Sufi...

Finally, we are coming to honor and appreciate the Crone, the font of wisdom a woman becomes after a life well-lived and lessons well learned.  I believe though, we are missing an important stage of life in our usual paradigm, the stage of Matriarch.  That gives us four stages: Maiden, Matron, Matriarch, and Crone.

Matriarch is the woman who has raised her children and completed her obligations as an active parent, or one who has devoted her 30s and 40s to establishing her career and who reache...