The Sacred Pause: Finding Magic in the National Day of Prayer

The Sacred Pause: Finding Magic in the National Day of Prayer On this first Thursday of May, as the sun warms the earth and the spring winds carry the scent of blooming lilacs, we find ourselves at a unique intersection of tradition and personal practice. While the National Day of […]
May Day? No, It’s Lei Day: Chanting the Spirit of Aloha

May Day? No, It’s Lei Day: Chanting the Spirit of Aloha While the rest of the world might be dancing around Maypoles, here in the islands, we are weaving magic of a different sort. Today is May 1, 2023, and the air is thick with the scent of crushed plumeria […]
Riding the Winds of Perception: A Bicycle Day Ritual

Riding the Winds of Perception: A Bicycle Day Ritual Today, April 19, the veil between the mundane and the psychedelic thins as we observe Bicycle Day. While the world remembers this date as the anniversary of Dr. Albert Hofmann’s historic 1943 laboratory discovery and subsequent, world-altering bicycle ride through Basel, […]
The Celestial Pause: The Moon Goes Void of Course

The Celestial Pause: The Moon Goes Void of Course April 6, 2023 The veil feels a little thinner this morning, doesn’t it? As the sun climbs into our sky, the cosmos invites us to step out of the frantic rhythm of the “doing” and into the profound, quiet power of […]
The Velvet Shadows of Maundy Thursday: A Night of Salt, Bread, and Transition

The Velvet Shadows of Maundy Thursday: A Night of Salt, Bread, and Transition April 6, 2023 As the moon hangs heavy in her waxing gibbous phase, tonight marks a peculiar intersection of the sacred and the earthen. While much of the world observes Maundy Thursday through the lens of traditional […]