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Find me on Countersocial & Mastodon
I’m trying out CounterSocial and Mastodon so feel free to find me there!
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Being Marion Woodman
On January 15, 2023, at 3 p.m. Mountain Time, you can view the online premier of my presentation The Soul in Matter: Marion Woodman’s Journey
Introductory Dream Workshop
Artists Standing Strong Together presents Monday Night Workshops – The Teacher Within: An Introduction to the Meaning of Dreams, an online workshop conducted by Laura Deal; Monday,
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The Dreamwork Tool Kit
Six Basic Hints for Dream Work Jeremy Taylor developed a 6-point Tool Kit for working with dreams, and encouraged people to share it with attribution
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Protest
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. The human race Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised
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Raspberry
By Kim Hansen Oh blistered gem of delicate weight, ruby red and alive. Oh mandala of bumps, perfectly replicating your patterns right into my soul mouth.
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Reflections on a Photo of a White Iris
By Johanne LaRocque Feathery… Floating…Fluttering Angel wings encasing, protecting not quite closing over Gaping… Yawning…Mouth Spilling precious sacred secrets Into the night from deep
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Laura’s New Love: Lenormand
Sometimes, you get the perfect gift. My deck of Ciro Marchetti’s Gilded Reverie Lenormand arrived in the post one day when I was stuck at
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To the Butterfly
By Johanne LaRoque When you were a tiny oval thing Adhering to a leaf Were you afraid Of those seeking you to eat? The ants,