
Transformative Hummingbird Wisdom
When we have the gift of hummingbird wisdom, we spare ourselves much suffering because we know when to speak and when to be silent, when to act and when to simply observe. We stop getting in our own way as we reclaim our birthright as co-creators...

Transformative Jaguar Wisdom
In Western culture, we value the mind for making sense of the world and our experiences. But while we might think we possess our mind, our mind can possess us. The challenge of jaguar in the wisdom wheel does not require you to cut your brain out...

Transformative Serpent Wisdom
The journey through the wisdom wheel begins in the South, where you learn to shed your past like a serpent sheds her skin. By doing this, you can become unencumbered by family drama, no longer fated to develop the physical ailments that your family...

The Transformative Power of the Wisdom Wheel
Many initially come to the work of the medicine wheel hoping to heal from physical and emotional ailments. They might not realize there are other gifts of the wheel too: opportunities for reconnection with Spirit, access to the wisdom of sages past...

Reclaiming the Divine Feminine
The Bon Buddhists revere a Great Mother deity who is both a powerful protector and a fierce destroyer. The depictions and stories of her remind me of the Amazon shamans’ tales of the female jaguar, a protective force that teaches us not to be...

Our Energetic Makeup
Modern physics helps us understand how all of creation works together in its intricate and elegant dance of life – including at the micro and macro levels of particles and waves of light and of galaxies, black holes, and solar systems. However,...

In Service to Something Greater
The power a shaman engages in the invisible world is vastly different from the power that people seek in the visible mundane world to improve their lives. She is interested in entering a non-ordinary reality in the invisible realm to discover and...

Serpent Courage
Serpent consciousness is much lauded by our culture. Our practical “can do” “tough love” attitude; our insistence on “calling a spade a spade” and “telling it like it is”; our demand for an answer to the question “Are you for us or against us?” as...

Jaguar Courage
In Jaguar Consciousness, we can access another very useful type of courage, that of the mind and emotions. This is sometimes called “moral courage,” and it’s what allows us to speak up about what we believe is right and just to people who aren’t...

Hummingbird Courage
In Hummingbird Consciousness, we engage life from the level of the soul. Just as that tiny bird finds the valor to take his monumental journey, we can discover the courage to perceive our own lives as journey of growth and discovery, of spiritual...