“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.”
-James Baldwin
These reflections in nature seem to speak of the delicate, steadfast, sweet, life-saving work that Baldwin speaks of in this profound quote. What is more important that mirroring a fellow traveler’s light back to them?
Brigit Anna McNeill always in all ways uplifts a heavy heart. She brings us a welcome fresh perspective, deeper, one that is healing and true. May her words heal and uplift you today. Let’s drop the heaviness and lean in to nature’s gifts and strengths, remembering that we are “wild, wise and ensouled.” Yes.
“When the human world feels heavy, take yourself to the homely arms of oak, into the whispers of the ocean and find the call of bird.
Let new languages, new sounds, new meanings fill your bones.
Let the beauty of this more than human world settle your frightened heart.
Let your wider community show you, strengthen you, let them tell you stories of the wildness that is seeded from the darkness.
Find the white of blackthorn blossom amidst the bare spaces, the gold of celandine and the song of the bee.
Let rose and hawthorn hold your heart, and nettle strengthen your resolve.
Let dandelion’s medicine speak to you of courage, weaving tales of tenacity and rewilding into your gut.
Find the verdant seedlings grown from death, the young Elder birthed from a breaking.
Watch how the little alchemists, the insects, the fungi and the worms eat the shit and turn it into gold.
You are more than stagnant human in concrete and chaos.
Silver Owl Psychic Astrology & Tarot shared this uplifting and power filled message about our solar eclipse today. I don’t often delve into astrology as it’s not something that I understand deeply, but still there are days when the messages are clearly for me, and for all of us, and I do resonate with and listen to them. This deeply resonated! I loved and felt so much here: a new cycle in how we love, aligning our hearts and minds with the divine flow of the universe, transmuting wounds, the eternal light that has always been in our souls, trusting the process, the heart leading the way to a new divine alignment…
This is a potent, clear message that I hope will resonate with you too…
“On March 29, 2025, the Solar Eclipse in Aries ushers in a sacred
and fiery rebirth-a divine moment where the universe invites you
to return to your truth and begin again, not from the mind, but
from the soul. This isn’t just a reset-it’s a portal into a new cycle of
evolution, especially in how you love, how you lead, and how you
show up for yourself and others. Aries calls you to ignite your inner
fire and step forward with fierce authenticity, while the eclipse
energy strips away anything no longer aligned with your becoming.
At the same time, a new chapter in relationships begins- one that
calls you to align your heart and mind with the divine flow of the
universe. To fulfill the sacred purpose of this journey, you are asked
to transmute every wound, every tear, into a pearl of wisdom,
uncovering the blessings hidden in your past. Love becomes the
mirror through which your transformation unfolds, revealing the
eternal light that’s always been within your soul. The intensity of
this eclipse may bring up endings, revelations, and emotional
release-but it is all part of the alchemy, clearing space for more
honest, soul-aligned connection. Trust the process, for every
challenge has prepared you for this moment-to move forward
with clarity, depth, and purpose. As your thoughts and emotions
begin to unite under the guidance of truth, you unlock deeper
connection and open your heart to the love you were always meant
to receive. Stay open. Stay grounded. Let your heart lead the way
into this new divine alignment, and allow the fire of this eclipse to
awaken the version of you that’s been waiting to rise.”
“Why would I want to cede any kind of emotional sovereignty to anyone in the ceremony of my everyday life?“
– James Vukelich Kaagegaabaw
I don’t. I choose not to. In this climate of unease and lack of basic civility, kindness, inclusion and honor – of grace – some days this is difficult. I want to react, to explain, to cry, to rant… I have learned better though. These things, these actions, do not one iota of good and change nothing. Better to live the authentic me in these times and not let my energy be dimmed or diminished. Love with fierce passion. Act don’t react my Father always said.
So here we are. And we still, always in all ways, have each other, so much LOVE, and a bounty of blessings of beauty in northwest Montana and all over this magnificent planet. We maintain who we are and celebrate the ceremony of our everyday lives. We honor each soul, and know there is no “other”.
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy.”
“the bracing and buoyant equilibrium of concrete outdoor Nature, the only permanent reliance for sanity of book or human life.”
-Walt Whitman
“The trick is, I find, to tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies… After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.”
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
