If you are in a place where it’s acceptable to do so, wade into the water. Get your feet wet, or submerge or float, whatever feels right to you. In water, find the healing peace that the element of water for which your spirit and soul thirst so deeply.

Here is a water chant that you may wish to use to connect with the power of water: Born of Water 

At home: If you are in a place where working with water outdoors is unavailable to you, perform the same ritual with a bowl or tub of warm water, adding fresh flowers and herbs, healing salts, or oils, then soaking your feet or body in the water while engaging in meditation. Towel your feet gently in gratitude, for your soul and soles are connected. Complete your ritual by nurturing your feet with an aromatherapy massage and soft cotton socks and moisturizing your skin.

A perfect composition for this ritual is “Water Dragon.” This piece is a Celtic harpist’s meditation, the uplifting story of a rare sea creature and the bond of deep friendship shared with a human, reminding us to open our hearts to love. ​

Each time you drink water, you perform an act of love for yourself and the planet. 
There are many, many health benefits to the drinking of water . As much as 80% of our body is water. The percentage is the brain is closer to 90%. Undoubtedly, water is important in our physical way of being in the world. Our bodies are alkaline by design.  Acid is produced by the stomach to aid in digestion: however, other than the stomach, no body part should be overly acidic.  

Water is the most essential nutrient involved in every function of the trillion of cells in the body. Because it is so important, I became a licensed distributor of Enagic water, a method of preparing water for optimum wellness that was developed in Japan. Click to learn more or hit reply on this email to talk about the benefits of alkaline water as it relates to your personal health and well-being.
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Though I’m a proponent for good quality water, you do not have to purchase fancy enriched water to benefit from its nurturance. Simple tap water prepared with intention and sipped with a slice of fresh lime is a great place to start each morning and continue throughout the day. ​

Yesterday, I took time for a brief walk in nature. The crunch of frozen earth crunched under my feet, indistinguishable from the crunch of autumn leaves. 

Women who follow the Medicine Woman Way honor and cultivate a primary relationship with the natural circles of mother Gaia. Through her, we are part of the cosmic flow of the universe and we are aligned with her companion on the journey, the Moon. Here on Earth, to honor her steadfastness, everything that flows moves to the rhythm of the moon.

And it dances. 

The moon influences our bodies and our emotions. 


Water dances along shorelines. It shimmies up storms. Women’s cycles form circle dances of the “Flower of Creation.” The Moon plays swing with our moods, rhumba with underground currents. 

The moon influences our behaviors and emotions.

We are uplifted by her light, or lost in her shadow. Like Salome with her myriad scarves, she reveals and conceals, dancing with the Sun and the Earth at the same time - but not for their pleasure, but her own. 

Wise women of any age have a primary relation to natural cycles and cosmic flow, which aligns them with the moon. Like the moon, we ultimately emerge whole unto ourselves. We see the range of life’s potential embodied and expressed through us. The moon waxes and wanes in our mirrored image, fallow or pregnant, waxing or waning.

As the Lunar Eye of Heaven, the moon draws Medicine Women together 13 times in each year to honor the natural cycles of life, death, and rebirth in an ancient pattern of ritual and ceremony.

A good free resource for working with lunar cycles comes from the Introduction to “The Lunar Calendar Daily Journal." The understandings reflected are important to working with the Moon in a meaningful way. I encourage you to review these:

Free Download: https://www.lunarplanner.com/LunarCalendar/LPIntro.pdf.
Sample pages: https://www.lunarplanner.com/LunarCalendar2019/LP190106-j.pdf. 

I believe the current pages are updated weekly at the website for free, or you can subscribe to have those delivered to your inbox.

As a Medicine Woman, working with the lunar energies and cycles makes it possible to manifest in concert with the natural rhythms of Earth, Moon and Sun. This manifestation potential can be supercharged when honoring the Solar and Lunar, Masculine and Feminine touch-points on the Wheel of the Year.

In a few days, you’ll receive information about another resource: an offer for the first edition of The Medicine Woman Wheel of the Year, an e-book that reflects on the importance of working within these solar-lunar touch points.

With our feet on the Earth, our soles and soul are connected. When we lift our face to the Sun (sol, son) and all it offers, we invite clarity and the ability to receive. But when we reach out to touch the moon, we dance in and within creation. 

I see the moon, the moon sees me.
Goddess bless the moon, and Goddess bless me.

And you.
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​As we enter this time of Winter Solstice & Rebirth, we are reminded that our inner Goddess Venus. is beginning her approximate 18 ½ month journey into the underworld. Then, she will return with her energies of Libra and knowledge of balanced equal partnership. Her astrological journey offers us an opportunity to be in equal partnership with ourselves, our relations, and with humanity.

But this awareness of equal partnership and right relationship with our World doesn’t happen somewhere “out there.” It begins here. It begins now. It begins with our relationship to ourselves and our true hearts.
Recently, here in Atlanta, my son and I attended one of Elton John's last concerts. This event was a 67th birthday gift from my son, Will. Previously, I had never seen Elton John in concert - and we had floor seats - so it was awesome!  

Elton performed against a backdrop of images chosen to represent images of his music and life. He spoke into his life experience as he proceeded from one song to another. Now that he is 71, and in the Autumn of his life, he is choosing to make a change. In the years to come, he will spend more time with his family and work to address issues of poverty in the World.

As a young man, he was skinny and shy, but still a music prodigy full of the awesome creativity that is so loved today. He shared messages of the inner Soul that can only come from the knowing Heart.  Then, as his musical talents progressed, he worked with a musical partner who could write lyrics. Elton would streamline those lyrics into musical accompaniments that bring balance to the Soul.  Not surprisingly, much of his music is about relationship with one's heart and soul moving through life itself.  

He struggled with his relationship with himself as he navigated his way through stardom and the conflict that fame brings.  At one point, he recounted that he had lost all his dignity to drugs and alcohol and forgotten Gratitude for life itself.
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The best thing, he said, was to come to Atlanta for rehab. This choice led him to understand who he really was, and to share his tremendous wealth to help eradicate the worldwide AIDs epidemic. Hundreds of millions have been donated for this cause with total love from his heart.  Through his relationship with himself, he sought truth from within of who he really is, made choices to be that person, and shared this exceptionality with the world – not only through his music, but through donations to help uplift humanity without judgment or exception. 

For decades, Elton John’s music and energy have poured out Love and Gratitude from his Heart to all of us in the electric atmosphere that is beyond description. On this special night with my son, I felt graced to have been present for an unforgettable musical experience. For me, the evening exemplified what it meant to dwell in Universal Love and Light in the present moment in time & space. 

This Solstice, may each of us celebrate the creative outward expression of self-knowledge that the Sun's energy generates in each of us, whether male or female. As we celebrate the rebirth of the Sun/Son, let us also reverently celebrate the balance of Power for Humanity as a Whole.  As this new cycle begins, may each day allowing us to heal the wounds of separation, fear, and dominance, as we, too, learn to dwell in Light and Love, in this time and space.

Peace and Love
Susan