We're now living through a time when we're thirsty for intimacy, for real connection, and to know once more the organic truth that our soft intuitive body is designed to know. It's important that we listen to this yearning. More and more of us want one-on-one experiences. Nature-centered deep change. The soles of our feet are aching to feel the humming threads of earth energy that our heart responds to. It's an inner journey of vision, magic, and awe that we're seeking; and

We've entered into a time of perceptible beginnings. Imbolc has arrived. This season of quiet warmth can now be felt as it starts to rise in the land around us; the time when the seeds that have been laying deep in the dark soil are quickened by the ever-so-subtle pale yellow rays of the young Sun. This warmth deep beneath the white snow promises new life.

On this shortest day here in the Northern Hemisphere we are presented with an invitation. The dark invites us to deny any cultural urgency, any external energies drawing us out, any persistent desire for becoming.

Yesterday I made a point of getting up extra early to go greet the arrival of spring on our new piece of property that my partner and I...