Waymarkers

20/06/2026

Sometimes park signage becomes poetry. This old Seattle Parks sign reads like a haiku:

Rocky and Wet
Ground is Being
Reclaimed as
Natural Meadow
And Habitat

I love the phrase “Ground is Being.” It feels less like a maintenance notice and more like a meditation on becoming.

19/06/2026

Every story has threshold guardians—those unexpected figures, obstacles, or circumstances that stand in the way of the path we intended to take. Their role is not always to stop us. Sometimes they test our resolve. Sometimes they ask, “How badly do you want this?” And sometimes they simply invite another way.

Every day contains mythic moments too. Today, my threshold guardians were a flock of geese firmly occupying the trail. Rather than insist on my original route, I chose the detour. What I found there were unexpected conversations, shared laughter, and delightful connections with others doing the very same thing.

Not every blocked path is a barrier. Sometimes it’s a doorway flocked in feathers.

16/06/2026

Say “Summer Solstice” without saying Summer Solstice….

The year takes one long golden breath.

09/06/2026

Today is the feast day of St. Columba (Columcille). On this day in 597, this visionary soul crossed the veil from the Isle of Iona into the Otherworld.

Columba founded the monastery on Iona, yet his understanding of the Sacred reached far beyond religiosity and rigid cultural boundaries. He knew God as present within the more-than-human world, and his spiritual imagination was spacious enough to honor older wisdom traditions alongside Christianity. In the Celtic Christian imagination, he is often remembered through the phrase, “Jesus is my Druid”—a poetic expression of a spirituality rooted in place, wonder, and relationship, and one that gestures toward an early ecumenical spirit.

He shared deep relationships with animals, regarding them as kin and as bearers of sacred presence. The icon pictured here, depicting Columba alongside his horse, speaks to this profound tenderness and interrelationship. It reminds us that holiness is not found apart from the living world, but through relationship with it.

My relationship with Columba runs deep. For more than twenty years, I have guided pilgrims to Iona with the hope and prayer of helping people reconnect with a Divine presence that is placed, here, and holy. Even now, I reside in Columbia City. Nearby is the Columbia City train station, whose icon is the dove—a small daily reminder of this enduring thread.

On this feast day, may you remember an imagination for God that is intimate and imminent. May you encounter the Sacred not as distant or elsewhere, but alive within this living Earth, speaking through wind and bird, stone and sea, creature and place.

08/06/2026

What is it to remember life as a labyrinth?
Not a maze where you lose your way, but a labyrinth where the path can be trusted.

There are turns and reversals, moments when you feel close to the center and moments when you seem far from it. Yet the way continues beneath your feet.

Trust the path. It will lead you to the center—and back again.

03/06/2026

The Wildwood Sisterhood gathers this week for our sixth session, where we arrive at one of the great thresholds found in myth and fairy tale: Meeting the Dragon.

This is the moment when the journey changes. In old stories, the dragon often appears as something to be feared, conquered, or slain. Yet beneath the surface of the tale, dragons frequently guard something precious—a treasure, a truth, a forgotten gift, or an exiled part of the self waiting to be reclaimed.

This year we are traveling alongside The Handless Maiden as our guide story. Interestingly, there is no obvious dragon in her tale. No scales. No fire. No beast lurking in a cave. And yet, as with all great stories, the dragon is there if we know how to look.

Part of the work of myth is learning to see beyond the literal. To recognize the dragons that appear in our own lives: the fears we avoid, the stories we’ve inherited, the parts of ourselves we’ve abandoned in order to belong.

What if the dragon is not the enemy?
What if the dragon is the threshold?
What if the treasure lies on the other side of turning toward what we’ve spent a lifetime avoiding?

These are the questions we’ll be exploring together tomorrow.

The Wildwood Sisterhood is a year-long journey through myth, nature, soul, and the sacred art of becoming.
For women who sense that their lives are part of a larger story.
Enrollment for the 2027 cohort opens in October 2026.
Perhaps the dragon is already calling.
And perhaps the treasure is, too.

29/05/2026

If you grew up with a piano nearby, chances are you learned how to play Frank Sinatra’s “Blue Moon.” Maybe a sibling or friend slid onto the bench beside you, adding melody to your rhythm.

Blue moon
You saw me standin’ alone…

But the song turns.

Blue moon
Now I’m no longer alone…

And then comes the line that has always felt like pure alchemy to me:

When I looked, the moon had turned to gold.

The blue moon becomes gold through connection. Through accompaniment. Through the unexpected arrival of love, belonging, and grace.

On May 31st, we experience a rare Blue Moon—an extra full moon, an unexpected abundance. Perhaps this moon arrives as an invitation to remember that grace still appears in unlikely ways. That synchronicities still shimmer through ordinary life. That sometimes what once felt lonely or empty can suddenly become luminous again.

Where in your life has connection recently turned something “blue” to gold?

18/05/2026

The Forest is Calling...
Into the Woods Rewilding Retreat
Wellspring Spa, Ashford, WA
February 18-21, 2027

You are invited into a mythopoetic journey of rewilding, story, ritual, and sacred sisterhood.

Into the Woods is an intimate all-female retreat designed to help you slow down, reconnect with yourself, and listen deeply for the stories living at the center of your life. Together we will enter the forest in winter’s hush to explore archetypes, fairy tales, symbols, creativity, ritual practice, and the deep feminine path of transformation.

Your retreat experience includes:

• Three nights of forest lodging at Wellspring Spa Retreat Center in Ashland, WA
• Delicious catered meals, snacks, and refreshments throughout the weekend
• A one-hour massage and access to the woodland hot tub and sauna
• Mythopoetic teaching, sacred storytelling, ritual, and personal ceremony
• Council circles and soul-centered community practice
• Creative materials for crafting your personal story and expression
• Spacious time for rest, reflection, and renewal in the more-than-human world

If your soul has been longing for spaciousness, beauty, creativity, deep conversation, and reconnection with the Sacred Wild, we would be honored to welcome you.

Registration is now open.

https://www.waymarkers.net/into-the-woods

13/05/2026

Registration for the 2027 Into the Woods Rewilding Retreat at Wellspring Spa At Mt Rainier will open on Monday, May 18th. I hope you will be allured by the invitation of this enchanting and sacred time and will join me!

Reconnect with nature and your wild self at the Into the Wild Woods Rewilding Retreat. Immerse in myth, eco-spirituality, and deep renewal in the breathtaking base of Tahoma/Mount Rainier. Join us for a transformative journey of wild stories, personal ritual, and sacred connection. Reserve your spot

30/04/2026

I’m delighted to share that Lunar Leadings is now officially available as a page-turning book just in time for tomorrow’s May Flower Moon!

Created as both a book and a lived seasonal practice, Lunar Leadings invites deeper relationship with lunar rhythm, sacred noticing, phenology, and the animate world.

Three ways to journey with Lunar Leadings:

🌙 Digital E-Book Bundle — available now through Waymarkers. Incudes the digital book + printable lunar and phenology practice resources.

🌙 Paperback Bundle — available May 15 through Waymarkers. Includes the paperback book + two full-color companion prints for monthly reflection and seasonal ritual.

🌙 Paperback Book — available today on Amazon! A simple and accessible way to begin weaving lunar wisdom into daily life.

I’m so grateful to finally share this offering with the world in a broader capacity. I hope this offering will companion your own sacred earth connection!