Metaphysically (more than physical) Epona symbolizes your freedom of movement (physical health and spiritual path) and your feminine ability to choose intuition and follow your instinct with strength and gentleness at the same time. Those inner gifts are powerful choices in moving forward with speed and grace on your evolutionary path.

She is a strong symbol for feminine independence and vitality, a Goddess to watch over us in this stressful and fast moving environment we now move in. Ride with her wherever you go! She’s a powerful friend.



"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."...R.L.Stevenson

Laugh at, lie, twist the meaning. Those are the tools. To destroy the Old Nature Religions it was necessary to twist the meaning of many things, including making the pentacle mean devil worship instead of its ancient meaning that women used to remember the 5 points of Creation—Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Spirit. It was critical to reframe the ancient word for a traditional healer—witch—into an evil woman who rides brooms, and keeps black cats to work black magic.

Re-program the honorable word ‘crone’ that described an elder, a wise woman of the village and twist it to mean a haggard old wretch, and then make it a final insult by reframing it as a disease. Put a spin on the words priestess and goddess (the symbols for the Divine Feminine) and always have a smirk or make humiliating jokes so women will feel embarrassed to associate with their own divinity and power.

Take the beautiful tools of ancient female power—Talismans (gemstones as healing, powerful jewelry) and label them ‘silly trinkets’ or ‘unnecessary’, shallow’ worthless and stupid and you reframe female confidence in their own intuition and instinct.

I’ve watched this current Administration and other governments around the globe master the use of spin, reframing and programming tools to keep the old lies afloat to the detriment of women and children. I’m writing about lies toward women because for millennium our most important gift is our intuition and our ability to survive and know the truth.

The title of this newsletter is The Alchemist—meaning the ability to change lead into gold, problems into solutions, and defeats into triumphs. Those are our sacred gifts for survival and we activate our Alchemist thinking when we seek the truth in symbols, words, strategies, and in the leaders we elect and the things we honor. When women begin to hold ourselves and everyone else accountable to Truth in every interaction in everyday living we will empowers ourselves, our children and the global community.

Our job—our sacred purpose—as women is to recapture our empowered thinking so that we may energize the new paradigm of leadership—nurturing, consensus and connectedness—and neutralize the brutality, and warmongering of the divide-and-conquer consciousness now running amok on this planet.

I ask you now in your own small way, in your house, at your desk, at the market, to be conscious of your choices, honor your intuition, your instinct, see the truth behind the slogans, the symbols, the spin. Wear a powerful Talisman as your protector. Name a lie a lie and the truth the truth. It’s a giant step in a minuscule format, but if we each see the truth in our individual lives, we can set it free. For that thought alone, I am encouraged.



"The Three Wise Women would have: Asked Directions. Arrived on time. Helped deliver the baby. Cleaned the stable. Made a casserole. Brought practical gifts and."..there would be Peace on Earth.

If you’re a woman in a deteriorating work or relationship environment, buy a drum. If you can’t buy one use a frying pan and a spoon until someone gives you one or you can afford one. It’s the beat, the rhythm, the physical movement —especially under the Full Moon that initiates the remarkable healing in mind, body, soul and spirit. I LOVE to drum and I know you will too.

And if you already drum—as thousands of women do in drum circles around the country —please share with others how personally invigorating it is. The more drummers we have, the more healers in force. Ah-woman (in place of A-men).



"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."...Somerset Maugham

I will share with you that if you just did 5 minutes of writing your affirmations down every morning, you’d be amazed at the things that would manifest in your life.

Caution: be careful what you write—just as you must be careful what you wish for. Be certain you’re very clear about the affirmative sentences you write. Be specific, not general. Be clear, be brief. Use strong words—as in I OWN my prosperity today.

Don't write in the negative or be sarcastic (The universe doesn't respond to sarcasm and unfortunately it responds waaaay quickly to negative orders). Be passionate, energized as you write or say your affirmations. Don’t beg. You are communicating with an energy that is part and parcel of who you are. Be assertive! Here are a few affirmations you can start writing today. Be sure to email me about your miraculous results. And I do expect miracles.

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."...Rumi

And she tells also of the Way of the Reindeer: “Today we search for sacred spaces in which we can move freely, according to our nature. Our search is spiritual and physical and the regions that beckon to us are wilderness—the vast and empty areas where silence and solitude allow original vision.

Instead of the archetypal stories of possession of the land and of conquest of other peoples, by which our cultures have defined themselves and by which we have lived, we need to create a new, more compassionate and caring myth to live by, one of reverence for nature.

We need to relearn the earth’s cosmic melodies and follow its rhythms as the Sami and the Even people follow the reindeer. Understanding the ways of the people who follow the reindeer may be part of a new story for the next century, a story of redemption that many of us just now are beginning to write.

Perhaps if we can release the reindeer spirit inside ourselves, we can learn to run freely across the land without possessing it.”
 

"The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation.
But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions."...Alan Cohen

But the Female Elders died, the symbols were stolen or ‘spun’ into negativity and the myths were buried under millennium of untruths and the knowledge of the Talisman was forgotten or lost. Until now. And now I urge you to place your own unique power piece on your body and feel the power coursing through you. Feel the wisdom rising to become your mentor.

To understand the physical, metaphysical and mythical energy of gemstones and symbols, my book Legends of the Stones is a guide. To find your power piece you can visit the pendant and necklace page of my website. Now....be the power you were meant to be and wear a Talisman as often as possible (and keep the power message a secret). You will never be the same. You will be more.



"None of us is promised tomorrow. Today, in all its beauty, is all we have."...Kent Nerburn

My grandmother taught me to read tea leaves ...practiced to this day.

For 10 years I bred and showed Lhasa Apsos. Bred the Purina Dog Chow Top Show Dog of the Year and Best In Show Champion Yojimbo Orion (my other true love).

Of the 5 books that I have written, one was a bestseller on Amazon.com

I’ve been married 3 times, once to an abuser, once to a savior and now to my Soul Mate, John, for 30 years. Together, we have restored 8 fixer-upper houses, and live in one we can’t leave—a Craftsman in Los Angeles built in 1910. We owned and operated a 35’ cruiser named Odyssey, and conducted brunch cruises to Catalina. I have been blessed with 2 wonderful children (Karen and Stephen) and 3 great grandchildren (Stephanie, RJ and Matt).

Drumming is one of my passions on an ancient Celtic drum, the Bodhran and facilitating several Wise Woman Circles and full moon drumming. As a Storyteller/Jewelry Designer I design jewelry that tells stories to motivate and inspire women through beauty.

Born in the Year of the Dragon, I am a Virgo with an Aquarius Rising Sign ...a Feng Shui consultant with an ‘A’ type personality, who loves to knit, garden, travel, read and do Sudoku puzzles and Cryptograms. And, crazy about words, music, ancient wisdom, color, Mother Nature and animals. John calls me an introverted extrovert.

My genealogy that I am following goes back to Ireland, Germany and France. Each day I meditate, journal and chant. And I feel like I'm just getting started!

But wait ...think about it; you’ll see that you also wear many hats.
Why? Because women are fabulous multi-taskers!