“All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
Is Change.
God
Is Change.”
—Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

This weekend we were told that Hurricane Hilary was headed to So Cal. She arrived in our area on Sunday as a tropical storm, and as the heavy rains fell, an earthquake shook our home.

Thunder above and thunder below!

Welcome, goddess!

Earthquakes and hurricanes, along with volcanoes and other elemental forces, were seen in the ancient imagination as manifestations of the divine feminine.

The goddess comes as a force of nature. In her capacity to destroy is also her ability to create. She reminds us that from the chaos, new life unfurls. She reminds us that such tetonic shifts are pulsing with the sacred.

Earthquakes, after all, are how mountains are born.

*“primordial womb waters” by Stephanie Jenkins*

So what’s shaking in your life? What’s rumbling? What’s crumbling? What is being changed?

This past year of my life has been one of great unraveling. I have often felt like the goddess was dancing through my life with thunderous thighs causing the earth beneath my feet to shake, quake, break open.

What was solid was falling apart.

It was a scary and painful year. And also I trusted the necessity of the crumbling. The image of the goddess reminds me that destruction begets creation and that from death, new life is birthed.

Change is the hallmark of life.

The linear model we’ve been given of progress and achievement towards an imagined place of arrival is a really bad story.

To inhabit the fullness of life, we must be willing to move into the change. To dance the spiral. To embrace both the darkness and the light, the pleasure and the pain.

To trust that somehow it all belongs.

So, to me, it felt like a wild blessing to be visited by both a rare storm and an earthquake on the same day! Both of whom thankfully came with gentle expressions of their power.

Perhaps not surprisingly, it was on this wild day of thunder from both above and below that I sat down with my dear friend Emma to talk about my personal journey of becoming on her podcast, “Becoming Wild with Emma Whittard.” Emma is a transformational life coach who helps clients to unearth and live their truest expressions.

It was a gift to get to share my story with Emma, and have the chance to weave the threads of my life into a story for this moment in time.

I feel both excited and tender to share my rewilding story out into the world. It’s a vulnerable thing to allow ourselves to be seen.

And also I trust there is power in sharing our stories, both for the ones sharing and the ones receiving.

I’d be honored if you take a listen.

You can find the show - "Becoming Wild with Emma Whittard", Episode 6 on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Here are the links:

Give it a listen! I’d love to know what lands for you.

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Tending to these inner “seeds” is an important aspect of the work I do as a 1:1 Soul Companion. Click to learn more.

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