by Anne Peek | Feb 20, 2023 | artistic expression, balance, beauty, cranky, creativity, earth, grumpy, harmony, imagination, life-giving, listening, nature, possibilities, rejuvenation, seasons, self-care, senses, Uncategorized, vision
I’m cranky today. Snow on either side of our driveway is piled about crotch-high, the remains of numerous snowfalls since the beginning of the year. This winter in the Twin Cities has already been one of the snowiest of all time. Yet the weather service predicts...
by Anne Peek | Aug 5, 2022 | affinity, aging, artistic expression, beauty, body wisdom, connection, creativity, earth, expansion, harmony, heart, intuition, joy, life-giving, listening, magic, nature, play, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, senses, spirit, Uncategorized, wonder
A year ago, after a couple trips to Lake Superior, I posted how I had begun there a regular practice of creating earth altars—how energizing it was to create them, why and how I created them (as an intuitive co-creation with the life around me and anchored by an...
by Anne Peek | Nov 1, 2021 | affinity, archetypes, autumn, beauty, childhood, connection, death, earth, expansion, Halloween, harmony, heart, intuition, joy, life-giving, magic, memoir, nature, possibilities, senses, soul, spirit, stories, surprise, transformation, Uncategorized, wildness, wonder
Tomorrow is November 2, the culmination of an auspicious period for honoring the dead. It is also my dad’s 101st birthday. So I’m going to tell you a story about my dad, a kind of ghost story because it took place at his death. On May 8, 2008 I got a call at 2 am...
by Anne Peek | May 10, 2021 | artistic expression, balance, beauty, body wisdom, connection, creativity, expansion, fool, growth, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, joy, life-giving, light, listening, modern life, nature, pandemic, play, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-reflection, solitude, spirit, surprise, tarot, Uncategorized, vision
Last May, when we were three months into the pandemic, I did a reading to see what advice the tarot had for us at that time. I reread that blog post today, and was surprised to find that it still feels relevant and true today. (You can read that post here.) Yet I was...
by Anne Peek | Mar 11, 2021 | affinity, artistic expression, body wisdom, connection, creativity, earth, harmony, imagination, joy, life-giving, nature, possibilities, rejuvenation, senses, spirit, writing
“Sweet spot” popped up in my reading several times last week. Bothered by a feeling that the expression had become weak from overuse, I spent a few minutes pondering what “sweet spot” meant to me. Here is the result. Sweet Spot The place to scratch, to...
by Anne Peek | Dec 14, 2020 | affinity, artistic expression, balance, beauty, connection, darkness, earth, harmony, life-giving, magic, nature, possibilities, seasons, self-care, self-reflection, silence, soul, spirit, transformation, Uncategorized, winter solstice, wonder
Winter Solstice is tugging at me this year, perhaps because so much of this long year has been about pause, and full of death and the unknown. I yearn for new life. Yet I know that new life takes time to develop, timing that is not in my control. (A warm spring does...