Across cultures and throughout history, human beings have looked to the sky and imagined great beings moving through the clouds. When lightning split the heavens and thunder shook the earth, our ancestors rarely saw these as random events. They saw relationship. Meaning. Presence. There is a certain wisdom carried by the Thunderbird that we only …
Before the storm arrives, something changes. The air thickens. The birds quieten. The wind shifts direction across the dry earth. In that space we could choose to connect to the lessons from the Lightning Bird. In many parts of Southern Africa, especially within Zulu and Xhosa oral traditions, storms were never understood as merely weather. …
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There is a fire that does not belong to you, a fire that moves through you. Not the kind you control. Not the kind you ignite on command. The kind that arrives, unexpected, alive, and asking something of you. It does not burn from you. It burns through you. And if you’ve ever felt it—the …
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There is something about the 1st of May that refuses to stay simple or linear. Maybe it doesn’t even have a name… like it’s layered with different aspects, yet the core is something that unifies. It appears in different places under different names—sometimes as celebration, sometimes as labour, sometimes as folklore, sometimes as myth. And …
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There is a moment in many human lives that feels like a collapse. Not a gentle change. Not a gradual becoming. But a rupture. Something breaks open in identity, relationships, certainty, or direction—and what once felt stable no longer holds. In psychological terms, this is often described as a breakdown; in spiritual terms, maybe an …
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I have been immersing myself in learning about and accessing the Akashic Records over the past couple of years. I don’t talk about it much as I feel there are so many misunderstandings about what this is. Perhaps the true meaning of this plane is as personal as our own belief systems. However, I’m going …
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There is something about the first of April that has never felt foolish to me. Not really. Yes, there is mischief in it. A lightness. A kind of playful wink. But even that feels meaningful. There is joy here. Jest. A brief loosening of the grip. A reminder that life is not only made of …
There are some stories that do not simply explain the world. They reorient us within it. The Tree of Emergence has grown, for me, in conversation with the symbolic depth of the Diné emergence story — a story not of one beginning, but of layered beginnings. A story of worlds within worlds, a story of …
There are some trees you admire, and then there are trees that recognise you. Trees that remind you of a world that you knew even better than this one. The Baobab is not a tree I “study.” It is one I feel. In this season of our Remembering when We Were Trees series, I love …
Friday the 13th has long been whispered about as an unlucky day. A date wrapped in superstition, unease, and cultural caution. Hotels skip the 13th floor. Airlines avoid row 13. People postpone travel, weddings, and business decisions. Yet when we look beneath the surface of this fear, something fascinating begins to unfold. Are we wasting …
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