I’ve created a page about my perspective on Gaia called ‘The Beinghood of Gaia‘. It’s not really accessible from anywhere except a link on the home page in the text (the link on ’separatist worlview’ goes there); in the spirit of putting everything new on the blog proper, I’ll share it here:

This planet Earth is a living, breathing, evolving being. Scientists like James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis and Stephan Harding (and many more) have made it abundantly clear that Earth is self-regulating and does not function according to mechanical models. This is no dead ball of dirt and stone that happens to support a precarious skin of life on its dead surface, but rather, a great, mysterious and miraculous living body that we are fully participating in.Humans have evolved a schizoid separatist culture in which we view ourselves as ‘outside of’ nature, so that we ‘are doing things to’ the planet, in much the same way as we view ourselves as separate from our own physiological beings. Spiritual and religious systems of belief tend toward the view that our physical bodies are merely vehicles which we use until we die, at which point we will be in the ‘real’ reality, or Afterlife.

After twenty years of astrological and metaphysical practice, and having grown up in the wilderness of northern British Columbia, I have come to fully accept the entity-hood of Earth. What does this mean to us individually and as a species? We need to change our attitude first, then we will find that our actions will follow. If we truly understand that our own physical bodies are living expressions of our own selves, not simply biological mechanisms or toys for us to use up and throw away, we naturally find ourselves behaving differently. The same applies to changing our view of the planet as a whole. Our current behaviors cannot continue if our cultural worldview changes to one that honours the beinghood of Gaia.

And I’ve created an ‘About Me‘ page, accessible from the top menu bar, that goes like this:

For the past twenty years, I have been developing and refining my vocation while living in relative isolation on Hornby Island in British Columbia. Having recently moved to the greater accessibility of Vancouver Island, I feel called to bring my work to the general public through various venues, including this website.

The unifying thread behind the many types of work I do has been a healing integration and expression of the points of view of the feminine principles: the physical and emotional bodies and the great Mother planet Earth, which have been equally neglected to the point of global and personal disaster.

Seeking to understand the tsunami of change triggered by my Saturn Return in the mid-eighties, although initially skeptical of astrology I received a reading which proved stunningly accurate and detailed and quite blew away my preconceived notions. (Now, I love reading for skeptics! It’s so cute the way their jaws drop!)

I fell in love with the archetypal beauty of the astrological language and embarked on an in-depth study, but soon felt something important was missing from the system. Shortly afterward, I discovered a single paragraph describing the planet Earth’s significance and meaning in March & McEvers’ ‘The Only Way To Learn Astrology’.

Intrigued, I began to use Earth in the chart in the book with excellent results, and when I included also the newly-discovered Chiron (according to Barbara Hand Clow in “Chiron: Rainbow Bridge to the Outer Planets)” I felt the needed grounding and balance had been achieved.

These two forces, ruling formerly co-ruled signs Taurus and Virgo, completed the symbolic system in a satisfyingly symmetrical way. Their addition ensured twelve planets ruling twelve signs and made it possible to perform readings of much greater depth than had before been possible.

I began writing songs around the same time. Never having conceived of the idea of writing a song in my life, a chance suggestion by a friend (‘Why don’t you write a song?’) opened floodgates which have never closed. My songs come from my deep sense of connectedness with Earth and Mother, as well as being tools for working through emotional issues. If for example I write a song which was initially inspired by feeling despression or despair, I emerge on the other side with renewed faith and zest for life.

I view songs and songwriting as tools for transformation and seek to inspire others as I was myself inspired. I am beginning a new series of classes at SoulSpeak in Duncan called “Songwriting for Shower Singers,” having discovered that most people need only the catalyst of suggestion to release their own songs.

For more information about astrological sessions, private house concerts and astrology and songwriting classes, contact me.

Because I haven’t found a way to enable comments on my pages, here’s your chance to give feedback if you wanna

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