I loved Dominique Christina’s This is Woman’s Work. It’s not a scholarly work on archetypes, it’s her lived experience of these...

I'm inspired by the boundaries women set to protect their creativity and how often women persevere in being creative even if they only...

I pulled the Empress card in tarot today and thought of the Dylan Thomas line “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower...

I’ve been trying to read Carol Lee Flinders’ book Enduring Grace and am having to confront my repugnance for asceticism. The first female...

Keri Smith has a great exercise in Living Out Loud in which you get a box and start a clipping file of anything that interests you. After...

Mark Nepo writes in The One Life We’re Given of finding grace and wonder in the act of spoon feeding his invalid father. It’s a...

In If Women Rose Rooted, Sharon Blackie recounts the myth of Mis, who goes wild with grief at her father’s death, becoming crazed and...

I think of MFK Fisher as a food writer, but last night as I cozied up to Last House and a piece of pie (MFK Fisher would probably not...

Looking at Katharine Hepburn’s busy 7th house, we realize that she was not going to be allowed to skip the class on human relationships...

Carolyn Myss’s Sacred Contracts and Archetype Cards were my introduction to oracle cards and what I think can be called soul-exploration....

Mars is transiting through my first house right now and I am beginning to feel some battle fatigue. The past couple of weeks have brought...

Agatha Christie's natal chart reading (below) is an example of what a reading from me looks like. The reading is usually 13 pages. If...

Here's a testimonial from a very devoted cat lover in Houston, TX ... "On several occasions, Lelia has worked wonders on our cats with her...

Sometimes hidden from me in daily custom and in trust, so that I live by you unaware as by the beating of my heart, Suddenly you flare in...

Oscar Wilde wrote "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." Harold Bloom paraphrased Wilde's idea as "all bad poetry is sincere."...

Harold Bloom wrote, “Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?” I find lots of wisdom in biographies. People...

"Most of us have a gap in our lives between where we find ourselves and the life we actually want to be living. It's time for you to look...

“... art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees…” Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit “Everything is raw...

A few of my Healing Touch for Animals clients.... I've always wondered how an animal reacts to a distance session, so I was grateful to...

"In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we...