“Love is always justified.” -Akashic Masters This article is lovingly dedicated to Veronica, who reminded me of my choice between love and fear– and thus guided me gently back to choosing love. In a personal session with the Akashic Masters this past January, I asked them what the most important thing in life was. I asked because I was feeling especially focused on living up to my potential, crafting a purposeful and beautiful life, and creating good in this world.  Okay. I was also feeling a little lost and unfulfilled. As a shaman, I ask the Akashic Masters dozens upon dozens of...

A Writer’s Declaration I don’t write for you. I write for me. If you love what I’ve written, God bless you. If you hate what I’ve written, God bless you. The words will do the work on their own, and they will touch you in whatever way serves you best. I don’t write for me. I write for you. If you love what I’ve written, I have succeeded for reaching your heart. If you hate what I’ve written, I have still succeeded because I have stirred a chord of your own truth inside you. The words will carry my message to the places inside you that need to hear it, need to feel it. These words...

Come dance upon my moonlit soul cheeks alight with peachy glow never ending magic glee has enchanted you and me Laughter beckons, speech now halts blind to one another’s faults echoed breathing, silence, chills quiet kisses, loving thrills Stain of berries on the lips subtle swaying in the hips drink to warm the timid heart this is how the whole thing starts Ice-clad walls ’round soul and mind fall and break as two hearts bind wilted wings now stretch and stride to make this faery’s spirit glide Quiet traces in the sand give way to walking hand in hand endless grins and destined...

Begin this day full of life…empty of fears. Begin this day full of love…empty of anger. Begin this day as yourself…not as others want you to be. Begin this day unafraid. Listen to the true calling of your heart, for it is only inside that place of blissful beauty that your true spirit soars to great new heights. Listen to your heart. It is speaking to you. It is speaking through emotions of great Truth and wisdom, of love and possibilities. Embrace the words and sweet whispers within your heart. They are real. They are the lights of your ancestors illuminating the path to your...

Dear Universe, My heart sparkles with gratitude for You. I relish in all You are doing to make my world so happy and bright. I want to thank You for having my back during some harrowing times, for championing my spirit even when I didn’t do it  for myself.  I want to tell You, in no uncertain terms, how very much I love You. I can feel the love I am meant to give to this world welling up inside me. I am experiencing so much love…in all areas of my life.  You are taking me to the places where I used to think only my dreams could take me. These things are real, coming true, thanks...

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” -Shakespeare At different times in our lives, we have all been on the receiving end of trouble, and whether intentionally or not, on the giving end of it.  We have all hurt someone. We have all healed someone. We have been flawed, imperfect, blundering.  We have been dazzling, loving, incredible.  We have been whole. We have been broken. We are human. We may be wounded, but we will always heal. Strength and softness come with that lesson. A sense of who we *really* are comes with that lesson. Indeed, we are bettered by our triumphs so well...

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame. ~William Butler Yeats, “The Land of Heart’s Desire,” 1894 Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels.  But their magic sparkles in nature.  ~Lynn Holland The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light. ~Joyce Kilmer Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!  ~Author Unknown Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom.  It is as true...

To be continually added to and updated…. Quotes are my heroes. It is my assertion that all great spiritual truth and wisdom is universal, and recycled through many of us, through many of our words and ideas and deeds. Quotes capture, illuminate, and spread the good news like wildfire. I have collected quotes on endless bits of papers scattered throughout the rooms and hallways of my heart and life for as long as I can remember. Here: have some. Jen “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery (from...

“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hands.” -Frederic Lawrence Knowles Tonight, I walked on the beach and the moon enchanted me with her twinkling luster of moondust bespeckling the quiet waters. I stood still to take in the captivating image of her, Lady Luna, just smiling and shining down upon everything in sight. From where I planted my feet in the cool evening sand, the moonlight dusted a path from shore to Heaven and I felt sure that if I tried, I could tread across the glow cast on the water and arrive safely in the moon’s embrace.  Her soft, wide, sparkling...

There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith Just a few articles up and a few days into Soul Candy as a live and pulsing site out there for the world to taste and see, I’m sitting down to write an official hello and welcome.  Hello, and welcome! No matter what anybody tells you or tries to hide behind, there is something incredibly, seductively voyeuristic about reading someone else’s intimate thoughts about life, love, and the aethers of spirit.  Parallel to this, there is an equally exhibitionist-like...