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Contemplate the caterpillar In chrysalis, no longer is it itself. The wall came fast, stopped you hard. Blood slithers down your face. Soup, it’s a gooey transformation Messy as bed hair, messy as a wet dog waiting to come in. There is no way past this wall, this stopping place, And no hole to dig your way out or through Or a detour pointing out another way. Take it, drink the bitterness, and swallow hard Read More

The Flying Stars is an advanced system of Feng Shui used for thousands of years. It recognizes the pattern of energy impressed upon every home and building the year it was built. Think of it like a building birthday. It is why you see some houses falling apart, covered in vines, and deteriorating. When the chi is gone, the house is no longer viable for living in. Therefore it is so important to update your Read More

It was a long dark winter, and in many ways it felt like it lasted 2 years. Like the acorn that tumbled off the tree, lay dormant under those same tree’s leaves all winter, and took root, so have we. Rooted and perhaps rotted, in our lives we found our own safety and comforts while protecting our family and our health. Yet, in all the collective, there is a you that has been languishing, hungering Read More

If I were to write my life story I’d start from now and work backwards, All the while forever continuing the story forward Until I can write no more Until I’ve been written off the page This morning I saw a veiled gray image Hovering over the highway Like a giant ghost of a thing I drove into this day noting that it was remarkable The world fresh and bright with hope hanging In the Read More

It may seem like a new year according to the Gregorian calendar but for millions if not billions around the world, the Lunar New Year is the one that is followed and celebrated. See the recently posted Blogs on How to Prepare and what the Year of the Tiger means for you and our world. So it is we are now in the month of the Ox and the Year of the Ox. This is Read More

This golden light Falling through the windows Open to the wind. The garden echoes with invisible voices. Chairs positioned for conversations Covered in pine needles. Painting landscapes red and orange stained. Music pulses, a mood starts to rock In the chair next to me. Hello old friend, where have you been? All the things we can imagine Are pressed against a mute tongue. Paper words flying in this new evening Like moths seeking the false Read More

At the beginning of the pandemic I wrote a Blog called Life Whiplash. I think it pretty much summed up the impact that lockdown had on my mental health and livelihood. Fast forward a year and half later to this year I call Whack-A-Mole. Maybe you are feeling this too, maybe this is just my own astrology playing out, maybe this is something else…? Sometimes in our life we meet hardships, conflicts, challenges that seem Read More

That storm seems to be forever perched Just over the tops of the trees Just over the furthest rooflines I can smell the rain The flicker at the feeder, The finches waiting on the line. The seed scatters, Sunflowers rise up. There it is, the volunteers, The ones you could never see That are suddenly there Faces to the horizon You know, past the steel gray clouds, That sun awaits like the finches. Some volunteer Read More

Homeless Dancing It is an annual tradition of summer yoga camp to take the oldest campers out one day for a couple hours to feed the homeless. This year 2021 we are still in a pandemic from Covid and so the need is even greater as so many people have suffered great losses in the past couple years. When we came back to Unity of Richmond the older campers laid down for yoga nidra or Read More

Summer time makes me think of music, of the smell of hot grass, and of the longing to be by water. Here it is, the 5th month of the Chinese calendar welcoming in the summer season and the month of the Yang Wood Horse. Being a Horsey person myself, I know so very well the passionate, ever active, ever going vibe of this impulsive Zodiacal Creature. The Snake from last month led us into transformative Read More

When I think of March I think of wind and the feeling like change is pushing itself up and out as in crocuses and daffodils, the budding of trees and the energy it takes to birth a leaf. So this month of the Rabbit hops in and is pretty harmonious with the annual Cow. The Cow has the strength and energy to make things happen and appreciates that Rabbit is calm, appreciative, and willing to Read More

Late summer lies lazily in the golden light cascading through the trees to cast long, heavy shadows on the lawn where the dog lies wilted and tired. His ball by his side, thrown over and over, but played with no more. For the old bones of this faithful friend are weary of this life. There is a longing now felt as we lean into transition; for the harvest, for the threshing, for all that’s born Read More

I laid my head on a pillow of snow And felt myself melting into a pool of stillness. So still, so still as the goose with beak tucked Under wing. Wind whipping, lifting feathers skyward. I ascend in a gasp of calling, echoing In the drum of my mind and heart. Seemingly cavernous and unoccupied By anything but this, this bird’s flight. This soul of mine, somehow All as one, all a-flight, All so exhilarating, Read More

Seriously, have you hit a wall of information overload? Do you feel like most of your day is spent in front of a screen managing your kid’s virtual schooling or your own job online? Do you feel like there is so much information coming at you that it’s all just spilling over your head like a numbing waterfall? You read one thing only to see another article negating what you just read. What is truth? Read More

August 7th we have a month of Yang Wood Monkey energy influencing our lives. Monkey is Yang Metal with a little Water and a a little Earth. There is a surge of Water moving in so the chi is very cool and wet but also charged with Yang active, movement, and this could signal a more active hurricane or storm forecast. This also brings up the image of Metal cutting Wood as in trees being Read More

I saw blood in the night sky. I heard the shots ring out as the stars collided. I felt the breaking of millions, of millions, so many gathered. Yes, witness this. _________________________ Together we can know truth for we saw And we heard But maybe more than that, We felt this. We made a choice. _________________________ I transformed the blood to war paint To mark your forehead like a sadhu. Kneel with me. _________________________ I Read More

Being Spring The streets are empty. The air is full of the aroma of suppertime. My walk is a wandering, I know where I am going But there is no time anymore, It’s just now. So there is space to be aimless, And there is room to be mindless, Of course I mean that in the most liberated, deliciously idle way, And so there is, as consequence, room for being-ness. A thin chartreuse dusting of Read More

Many may think this means something heavenly but let us not forget heaven is here on Earth. Any ascension is your own spiritual vibration being tuned to a higher frequency. So an entire planet has been stilled and quarantined, or at least asked to and in so making this request we see those who refute and those who accept. We know not what is happening yet slowly I think some are arriving at that doorstep. Read More

In the mindfulness yoga programs I teach children about their emotions. Not only how to identify them but also how to manage them. A private student of mine, a 7 year old boy, told me that feelings are sticky. I learned some incredible wisdom from that child because it is so very true. We rarely feel sad without some disappointment or anger or rejection or ____. Just as we rarely feel joy without a little Read More

From a Satsang talk given at Satchidananda Ashram Yogaville February 29, 2020. There was a point a few years ago where I made this connection – the Feng Shui of Yoga – recognizing that they not only overlap in places but really support each other, are strengthened by each other. This was at my summer yoga camp when I was teaching the older groups of kids about the teaching of Saucha; cleanliness and order. I Read More

The New Year rang in January 25th and somehow I never got around to posting the Stars for February. Life has been a whirlwind of energy and movement and activity. It is a Yin Earth Rabbit time as our world begins to re-green, as the nests fill with eggs, as we witness the birthing season unfolding in these weeks ahead. March begins on Thursday the 5th and we are in for a very unique alignment Read More

The call of the geese Breaks the morning silence Through the trees I see their winged formation Marking the sky with autumn Monarchs track their own migration fueled by milkweed I picked one up off the road Orange and black patterned paper Hummingbirds visit gardens A marvel in miniature So insect-like, a beak like a proboscis So tiny fairies could surely ride on their backs. Morning’s damp chill will give way come noon But for Read More

When you are looking at your home, self care begins here. Just like in life, too much of a schedule and work load can also be seen reflected in home decor when there is too much stuff filling every room. Empty space, free time are one in the same. It is a refreshing exhale allowing the mind to rest. Look at a room in your house and ask yourself: Is it lopsided? Is there clutter Read More

In the classic book, To Know Your Self by Sri Swami Satchidananda one of the chapters is called If You Tune, You Hear the Music. I wonder if what we are mostly tuned into isn’t static, white noise, and the vrittis or monkey mind or the chaos of our minds. I wonder if we have lost the tune and no longer hear the music or even remember it is there to tune into. The news, Read More

At the beginning of this year, one dark, cold, rainy morning I sat in front of my altar meditating. The heavy weight of grief from a relationship that had ended and the realization that for the first time in over two decades I was alone again muddied my mind as I gazed at the candles burning and inhaled the incense wafting around my head. In that dark moment I looked at the picture of my Read More

Flying Stars is an advanced system of Feng Shui that accounts for the ever shifting energies in the compass directions. The first layer is determined at the time your home was built or last renovated. The next layer are the Annual Flying Stars and then we have Monthly. For repairs and such it is best to take it a step further and also take into account the Daily reading too. This can be helpful for Read More

Starting with the New Moon on April 5th we enter the mystical month of April ruled by the Zodiac Animal of the Dragon - are you flying or landing or perched? #9 Star in the Center where the annual 8 Star resides brings us an incredible energy radiating from every home and business. This is an energy of not only potential wealth but joyful gatherings, celebrations, and a place to set your intentions for future Read More

I have never been one to sky gaze at nightPerhaps it is because I was raisedUnder the orange sky of the city,Or more likely this,That to look at the vast expanse Of black strung with a myriad of starsThat were mapped and named And even traveled to is an overwhelmOf both comprehension and physical measurement.For instance, when I have laid down on my back,Been held by the Earth,And tipping into the chasm of evening blackTo experience that Read More

Starting March 6th we have the energy flying in as this: #1 Star in the Center where the annual 8 Star resides. Both of these energies are positive for success and wealth. CURE: Hang 8 Chinese Coins to give a nod to the money Star. And for the 1 Star just add a pile of Chinese coins or a piggy bank full of coins. #5 Star sits in the South with the Annual 3 Star. Read More

Our children must appear perfect in the eyes of those we presume to be looking. Any flaw of grade, of performance reflects darkly on the mother. Always she. Isolated and alone is the modern mother hovering over her child’s every breath as if to dictate their inhale and exhale and capture it on film and image for posting for public approval. Angle the bow just so. Hold the trophy up and show off your perfect Read More

In January 1999 I began a journey that has been as eclectic and transformative as the name I gave this business. That name was a spontaneous inspiration, I liked the sound of it, Kharma Khameleon. It was only later that I realized the connection to the Boy George 80’s hit which still makes me laugh at the irony of how threads of our life re-weave themselves back around unconsciously. Kharma Khameleon’s initial impetus was to Read More