An upside down or “shadow” card often infers a time to look within more so than without, and to do the work of internal process versus any external application. It’s the more subtle realms as opposed to the obvious which takes preoccupation.
Spring is a favorite time of year among many foodies, the scarcity of winter is over and the bounty of fresh fruit and veggies is on the horizon. This difference of seasons is far more glaring now that I have transplanted from San Francisco to NYC.
Words heave, tease and rumble,
running beneath furrows of my skin,
under folds and cracks and pores,
arcing through bone, lining my vacant eye with shadow
like crystalline shorelines, metamorphosed
from emptiness into being.
The space between us
breathes like flame swept on a wind
to lick, lightly caressing its tongue
on the coarse, damp fabric of existence,
Today we will celebrate and walk through the new Golden Door that opens for us whenever we need renewal, allowing one cycle to end and a new cycle to begin.
Here is the continuation of the highlights from our pow-wow with Hari Kaur Khalsa, a distinguished Kundalini Yoga teacher and author from New York City.
In this excerpt, Hari shares with us the four cycles of a woman’s life according to her teachings, and how the energy of spring relates and is reflected in each of them.
Today I found a new reason to love mushroom hunting. I should have thought of it before, but that's ok, because an unexpected discovery of an obvious truth seems particularly potent. They are pleasant surprises.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
