Eclipses of September 2024 & March 2025: Hurricane Helene and the Spring WNC Wildfires – Regional Initiations
For Western Astrologers, the years 2025-2026 are some of the most profound years of our lifetimes, and the two major catastrophes that have hit the southeastern U.S. just happened during two recent eclipse seasons. In sum: it’s initiation time. Mutual Aid. Strategy. Building structures that support our visions for more equitable futures.
Free Earth Astrology Readings for Survivors of Hurricane Helene and Mutual Aid Volunteers & Workers
The storms of exploitationism and expansionism have wreaked havoc in our planetary communities for millennia, and the winds of climate change, of intensifying hurricanes and extreme weather, are only the symptoms of socio-economic value systems that are out of balance, toppling over, and crushing the weakest and splintering the middle. We are all called to […]
“Emergence” and my Deep Ecology art practice
Last autumn, I spent two weeks at the United Plant Savers Goldenseal Sanctuary in Ohio as a Deep Ecology Artist in Residence. United Plant Savers (UPS) is an organization with an unusually forward thinking approach to conservation of native medicinal plants. Unlike most conservation projects that aim to limit human activity, UPS invites human activity […]
Another look at Poison Ivy: Mother Rhus
Let’s write stories for our ancestors. About healing. Hope, Futures of resilience.…Let’s write stories for the future generations. Stories that can help us travel to futures that we’d like to inhabit.……But first, I need to heal. Maybe you do too. Today, an article I wrote on healing intergenerational trauma was published in a plant dialogues […]
Deep Ecology of Lichens – An upcoming Artists Fellowship
Exciting news! The United Plants Savers awarded me a Deep Ecology Artists Fellowship. As one of their 2022 recipients, I’ll be staying at the United Plant Savers Sanctuary to explore the deep ecology of lichens. What is Deep Ecology? There are lots of different definitions, all connected at a central core: that the earth is […]
Notes on a sabbatical from lichenology
For anyone who has visited my site before, you’ve probably noticed a big change. I’ve revamped it to reflect a bit of what I’ve been learning and exploring these past 2 years: that lichenology is not just a practice of taxonomy and observation of the outer world, but is also an exploration of the inner world, a practice in creating symbioses with our mind, and body, and emotions and more than human world, which can radically shift how we engage with the outer world.
