My reading is taking on an unintentional theme. Several of the books I’ve recently picked up are by women or about women who’ve had to...

As I read through Crones Don’t Whine by Jean Shinoda Bolen, I found myself dismissing it as fluff. It seemed to be just a collection of...

Last House by MFK Fisher is good and sad. In many of the later essays, she’s angry at the aging process which for her was exacerbated by...

“They are busy and thinking of ways to be busier because such a space of nothing pressing to do would knock them down. No fields of...

I’ve been thinking about Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal as a way to pay attention and engage with my imaginarium but it occurred to me...

I just finished Then Again by Diane Keaton and loved it. One of my favorite parts is Keaton’s assessment of some of the documentary films...

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...