Transmutation News April 2025

I know people feel incredibly challenged at this time of so much destructive change going on all over the planet. And every change is a death and an initiation meaning something is dying in our way of living and a new rebirth will come with time and patience and immersing ourselves in our shamanic journeys, ceremonies, prayers, and especially working with nature.

As I keep sharing I don’t watch much news. But I do read some stories educating me on what I need to know in order to continue to be in service to my community. One of the stories I read lately is something I know you will appreciate.

I am not educated on the names of famous actors, writers, or singers. But there was a piece written by someone very famous. He apparently burned out as so many have done living a stressful life that does not mirror or follow our true destiny. He had a nervous system breakdown which is a topic I have written about in previous columns.

He took a year off from work and just sat and watched the birds and healed. He wrote an article about all the little details about the life of birds especially including the behaviors and ways of living humans never see, as we don’t take the time to look into the minute details of nature. We tend to focus on what we see on the surface on the macro level. This man spent a year looking into the magic that humans miss about nature and life.

What an amazing message and how inspirational to read of one man’s healing journey immersing into nature from a surface way of just taking photos or seeing some beauty and immediately walking on like turning a page of a book too quickly instead of seeing the hidden magic behind the words.

I invite you this month to expand your practice to take the actual time needed to spend a day or even an hour in nature and immerse yourself in its cycle of life instead of observing it or just photographing what the eye can see easily but missing the subtle ways that nature connects, supports each being, and communicates with all of life and connects so gracefully with everything that exists in life.

We can simply be outsiders and observers of life instead of immersing ourselves in it. Yes, there are so many challenges we are facing today but nature is inviting us to connect with all beings in nature who are going through life-threatening changes and we have an opportunity to all connect to each other and learn from each other like the creative forces of the universe intended. We are woven into one web and none of us are separate. Life can take on a deeper meaning for you and help you heal from the traumas of life by dropping in on every level to experience the deep healing of Earth.

We are watching so many people leaving America to go to places that seem kinder and a better place to live right now. There is a true exodus and believe me, I understand. I wonder if I was younger what I would do. Back in the 1980’s I was a recent resident of Santa Fe. I moved here in 1983. After I met Isis in a vision quest in the late 1980s one day she gave me such a powerful message. Isis used to give me spontaneous messages with information I did not ask for. She volunteered it to me as we developed our relationship together.

What she said to me is there is no safe place to live on the planet. She advised me and my students to find the place we love to live and stay there and face the challenges. This was at a time when I had a lot of clients asking me to journey on safe places to move to. And Isis said there is no safe place. Stay on the land you love. I wanted to share this during the chaos of our times when people are making some interesting rash decisions. Maybe this message will speak to you on some level.

And for my last offering for this month, I had a big lesson about trust. I am in a different place than many of our readers although I know many of you have had long-term challenges on all kinds of levels. As you know I have a rare disorder that keeps me in a lot of pain and without the ability to live life to its fullest. I have a hard time functioning in the ways I would love to still be able to do.

Trust was not a word I wanted to hear and felt it should removed from our language. Yes, I have been pretty triggered by something that feels “unfair” that deeply impacted my ability of what I can and not do to get through my day.

But at some point over this 10-year journey, I learned to trust without understanding the why’s, how, or having any reason to trust. I lost trust when I watched my father go through dementia. And I lost trust when I could no longer live the life I wanted.

Trust has a sneaky way of finding its way back into our hearts. For I think it is an essential tool for survival. When we lose hope and trust we lose our roadmap.

So here is a simple story about trust I would love to leave you with. One day I was cleaning out books in my office bookcase. Like many, I am moving a lot of my things along to others who can use them and enjoy them. I took out a lot of books I know I will never read again in this lifetime but would be wonderful for others to read.

After I was finished,, I cleaned up my space and it was all clear. The next day I came into my office and a pouch that holds runes was on my floor. Many of the books I gave away were on reading runes. Although I used to love reading runes it is not my path, so I have not read any runes in over 15 years.

So here was my old pouch with runes and one rune book I kept. I pulled a rune out of the bag mysteriously sitting open on my floor. And I picked the perfect rune that told me exactly where I was in my cycle, described it completely, and told me what to do!!!

I don’t know, for me, too many things happen in my day that show me trust in my helping spirits, the creative forces of the universe, and nature, is what I can count on. And I have learned that trust more than hope these days is the energy that lights my path.

The full moon is April 13 – the Pink Moon. Let’s immerse ourselves in the divine within us and outside of us. Life is a play and everything happening is part of a great illusion. But the divine is not an illusion. And the light that lives inside of everyone is not an illusion. It is the only thing you can trust in as well as the wisdom of your heart and soul.

So let us travel deep within and go deeper than we have to the light that can transmute all that is happening within and without if we made a choice to go deep enough and trust in our light like we trust the sun will rise again each day.

Let us merge our inner light together and emanate in a way that cleanses and creates a new rebirth into a life of kindness, compassion, grace, and unity.