Wisdom & Wonder Podcast

I awoke today with a profound sense of being untethered, as if I’d fallen asleep on a raft, gentle waves cradling me, safely secured by my mooring, and yet somehow arose to the endless expanse of sea and horizon surrounding me. Still afloat, with my vessel under me, but in deep and unknown waters. After an initial gasp of realization at being adrift, unaware of how to control my trajectory, the de...

Nothing is too human to be spiritual. In fact, everything we do, every aspect of this human arc, is an opportunity to access the Divine. Even the smallest action can be elevated, undertaken with devotion, and made sacred. I’ve been thinking of this a lot recently, as the process of creating a thriving spiritual mentoring practice requires a lot of attention to the physical world. I find I move in...

I was having a conversation last night with two brilliant women I know, discussing the nuances of being a spiritual mentor. One of the issues that came up is this trend of “ascending”. Please understand, I am 100% there for our evolution in consciousness - I have lived and breathed it for decades. But I have noticed this troubling trend of denigrating and/or bypassing our human emotions and condit...

It has been just over six months since I moved to Luxor. I realize now that my soul was ready to be here long before I made the decision to relocate in May of 2024. It took my head a while to get in on the act, but after a few trips to suss out the veracity of my mad plan, I knew it was time. A summer spent weeding through my personal belongings, giving away so much of my accumulation, the trappin...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Wailing Tree: The Shaman’s Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Enter the Garden of Delights: Rumi Oracle by Alana Fairchild ✨ Protection: Sacred Destiny Oracle by Denise Linn 🌀 Flamingo Spirit: The Spririt Animal Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid When I would get caught in a cycle of hopelessness, my therapist Patti would remind me that the past does not determin...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Hollow Bone: The Shaman’s Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Becoming: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild ✨ Tenderness: The Priestess of Light Oracle by Sandra Anne Taylor & Kimberly Webber 🌀 Ancient Oak Spirit: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn “Your soul chose obscurity to survive. Now embrace visibility to thrive.” This was the message that...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Magician’s Sword: The Shaman’s Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Shifting Universes: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild ✨ Grateful Optimism: The Priestess of Light Oracle by Sandra Anne Taylor & Kimberly Webber 🌀 Wolf Spirit: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn As the sun enters Capricorn, marking the still point of the sun and the shortest day...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Covenant: The Shaman’s Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Simplicity: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild ✨ Twin Flames: The Priestess of Light Oracle by Sandra Anne Taylor & Kimberly Webber 🌀 Standing Stones: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn We are in a powerful time, crossing an energetic and cosmic threshold from what was to what is becoming...

“I had a revelation, like runaway horses Took to the road with a carnival show, roll on…” Robbie Robertson’s Testimony is one of my favorite songs, and it is stampeding through my psyche this morning. “Come bear witness, I’ve danced among the ruins… I’ve walked a crooked mile…. In my soul, I’m howling at the moon…. Declare yourself, I will testify. ” Spirit speaks to us in so many ways - through o...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Drifter: The Shaman’s Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 The Choice: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild ✨ The Water Oracle: The Healing Waters Oracle by Rebecca Campbell 🌀 Ivory Wish-Fulfilling Crow: White Light Oracle by Alana Fairchild I arrived in Luxor 64 days ago, with four suitcases and a vague plan. 64 days is the blink of an eye in a lifetime...

We live our lives operating under some fairly basic illusions. The illusion of safety, the illusion of separateness, the illusion of duality. They are constructs that confine us to certain operating modes, locked into the matrix of working to live, sacrificing our passion for a sense of security that is as fleeting as a cumulus cloud on a windy day. I have come to a point in my life, my second Sat...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Star Mother Arrakis: Rumi Oracle by Alanna Fairchild 🌀 High Priestess: Isis Oracle by Alanna Fairchild ✨ Seed of the Heart: The Journey of Love Oracle by Alanna Fairchild 🌀 Healing Chaos: Sacred Destiny Oracle by Denise Linn Today marks the beginning of a new astrological era. The new moon solar eclipse in Aries, influenced by the North Node, is the first new moon of the astrol...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Mama Qocha: Goddess Power Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Duality: The Priestess of Light Oracle by Sandra Anne Taylor & Kimberly Webber ✨ Metamorphosis: The Healing Waters Oracle by Rebecca Campbell 🌀 Completion: Mystical Shaman Oracle by Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron-Reid, & Marcela Lobos How much of our life is spent seeking safe harbor, ignoring the vast and tumultuous bea...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Aphrodite: Goddess Power Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Courage: The Priestess of Light Oracle by Sandra Anne Taylor & Kimberly Webber ✨ The Mist: The Healing Waters Oracle by Rebecca Campbell 🌀 The Seer: Mystical Shaman Oracle by Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron-Reid, & Marcela Lobos There is a gorgeous alignment to the cards today, row by row. I find it fascinating that yester...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Crown Games: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Miracles: The Priestess of Light Oracle by Sandra Anne Taylor & Kimberly Webber ✨ The Mother Prays: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 The Lower World: Mystical Shaman Oracle by Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron-Reid, & Marcela Lobos I always pay attention when a card keeps appearing, and t...

Oracle Cards: ✨ The Wall: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Spirit of Place: The Enchanted Map Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid ✨ The Mother Prays: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 Selkie: The Healing Waters Oracle by Rebecca Campbell The cards feel deeply personal to me today. I have been sharing these daily on my Patreon page, which has been both lib...

I have commitment issues. I know where they originate - losing my dad at eighteen and my first love a mere six years later was an introduction to impermanence that informed me. I held an abject distrust of “plans”, because life paid no attention to those whatsoever. Deferring life until a tomorrow that may never come just didn’t seem like a solid way to live. Yet I was never truly free, living lif...

It has been a while since I just wrote blog style, without prompt. The daily cards are such a part of my life, my spiritual practice, that it is easy to let them inspire me and inform the messages that come through. It is an energetic feedback loop that I treasure. And yet sometimes words are in me, and come through unbidden. They have a ferocity today, a relentless pursuit of air that I have no c...

Oracle Cards: ✨ The Wall: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Life Restored: Isis Oracle by Alana Fairchild ✨ Yin Yang Lover: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 Ancient Oak Spirit: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn I’ve been examining the concept of home lately. Home as an external location, and as an internal state of Being. I’m blessed to live...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Stars In The Sky: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Sacred Soul Sister: Rumi Oracle by Alana Fairchild ✨ Becoming: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 The Rainbow: Mystical Shaman Oracle by Alberto Villoldo, Colette Baron-Reid & Marcela Lobos Merry Christmas, my friends! I hope everyone is celebrating this season of Light with peace an...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Stranger: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 The Void: The Starseed Oracle by Rebecca Campbell ✨ Intimacy: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 Meandering Pathway: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn I spent the day yesterday cleaning out my closet, with the goal of accessing my Christmas decorations. I’ve simplified the decor this y...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Gathering Around: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Perspective: The Starseed Oracle by Rebecca Campbell ✨ Sacred Convergence: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 Hummingbird Spirit: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn It is a cold, grey morning here in Massachusetts, and when I awoke there was a decided heaviness to the energy. In...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Moon Maiden: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Breath of the Cosmos: The Starseed Oracle by Rebecca Campbell ✨ Towering Magnificence: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 Bluebird Spirit: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn Astrologically speaking, a new era begins today. Pluto, the planet of transformation, enters Aquarius, the sig...

Oracle Cards: ✨ The Crossing: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 Weight of the World: The Starseed Oracle by Rebecca Campbell ✨ Heart of the Moment: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 Butterfly Spirit: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn I dreamt of a white tiger this morning, padding quietly up to me as I sat atop a low stone wall. He gazed at me...

Oracle Cards: ✨ Whalesong: The Shaman's Dream Oracle by Alberto Villoldo & Colette Baron-Reid 🌀 All Paths Lead Home: The Starseed Oracle by Rebecca Campbell ✨ Contemplation: Journey of Love Oracle by Alana Fairchild 🌀 Spirit Guardian of Winter: The Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn I shared with a friend this morning that during a particularly challenging period of my life, when I was wrangl...