Grounding meditation learns from Tree how to ground and establish boundaries around our personal space

In the wake of the November full moon, known as Baba Yaga's Feastday, we discuss the necessity of Good Counsel in navigating turbulent times and what it looks like when it comes.

A decades’ long musing about the beginnings of patriarchy is given new musings after reading the chapter on Hags vs Heroes in Max Daschau’s book. What role did hero epics play in the wiping out women’s power needed to establish the patriarchy?

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A call to Memphis cuts the Ohio portion of the journey short, but I am able to make it to my 2 biggest priorities, the Serpent Mound in Ohio, which is known as aligning with the solstice sunset, but further research has shown to also track the full 18 year lunar cycle, as well as be a pregnancy calculator. After that, I head to the very powerful National Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati.

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More #vanlife chronicles of a creeper on the campground and trying to find another spot close to dark near Lake Erie on a weekend with a jazz festival happening, and what happens when I do finally find a place to land.

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A #vanlifesucks day gets worse when I walk into the Seneca Falls Visitor Center as a way to take my mind off of all the technical difficulties I’d had all day. Early history of the Seneca Falls area makes a bad day worse as I learn about early interaction with the native residents, and the patterns of disrespect for people and land paving way for industry that inevitably collapses that is repeated all over the country

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Patriarchy has long called women crazy as a means to silence them and get them to doubt their own intuitive wisdom. Fear of being seen as --or even actually going--crazy inhibits many women from connecting with their ancestors.

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Hartford County’s progressive history, including providing refuge for the Mendi people from the Amistad as they awaited trial, has its own gaps and has certainly shifted in the present. How does a place that was so forward thinking move into such conservatism?

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A visit to Plimoth Plantation, the living history museum outside of Plymouth, MA brings shocking interactions with the impeccably trained actors in the English Settlement and forces me to stretch my heart open wider to hold on to their humanity in the face of the impact of the Plimoth settlement.

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Rich conversation with decolonialist and teacher Sara Jolena of Sequoia Samanvaya about moving into a space of ReMembering our place within nature and the line of those that came before and those that will come after and what is required of us Here and Now to work through our history and move forward. Sara Jolena had great insights into the self-care necessary to do a reclaimation trip like mine.

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