“Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating…. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods…Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. […]
The intensity of the times we find ourselves in is akin to the birthing process. There is an increasing intensity of contraction, interspersed with evolutionary expansion. Descending through the planetary birth canal we come to the moment that we reach the precipice, gaze out and in that moment, remember why we came here and who […]
Honor the Feminine is a website with podcast shows featuring Shannon Ledford interviewing various guests (male and female). The Honor the Feminine Podcast is about healing the old wounds that many of us carry and highlighting the amazing people, especially women, in their life & stories around sisterhood & the wisdom of their intuition and how they […]
De-cluttering has become a buzzword for many, an act of shedding that which no longer serves a functional purpose and allows space for forward movement. Typically, de-cluttering is associated with physical possessions. I offer an additional perspective, the de-cluttering of words. Some years ago, during a shamanic retreat, our teacher, a paqo (the medicine people […]
During the month of December, when daylight hours reach their nadir, we enter the season of celebration, of gift giving. In addition to Christmas, many other holy days, including Kwanza, Bodhi Day, Chanukah, Solstice, Dies Natakus Solis Invicti , give us pause to embrace the darkness, and honor the return of the sun, the return […]
