by Anne Peek | Aug 16, 2023 | affinity, artistic expression, beauty, body wisdom, connection, creativity, earth, gardens, heart, hope, imagination, intuition, joy, life-giving, nature, play, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, self-care, senses, spirit, the feminine, Uncategorized, wonder
I’m still living this jumble of a summer, but taking time to pop in to share some of my recent earth offerings. May they nourish you as much as they have nourished me. This one was made the weekend of my birthday, in gratitude for life and family. The following day I...
by Anne Peek | Jun 14, 2023 | affinity, amusement, artistic expression, balance, beauty, communication, connection, darkness, expansion, freedom, friendship, growth, harmony, heart, hope, imagination, joy, laughter, life-giving, listening, memoir, modern life, mystery, play, possibilities, rejuvenation, Sacred Eccentricity, self-care, self-reflection, spirit, stories, surprise, the feminine, transformation, trickster, Uncategorized, women
Why I Became a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant Just As I Began my Legal Career Because it was the 1980 State Fair and the pleasant woman in the grandstand offered a free facial. Because I was 27 and had never had a facial. Because I was 27, had never worn makeup, and...
by Anne Peek | Aug 27, 2022 | affinity, animals, archetypes, artistic expression, childhood, communication, connection, creativity, earth, expansion, intuition, messages, nature, possibilities, self-reflection, senses, shadow, soul, spirit, stories, surprise, the feminine, transformation, Uncategorized, vision, wildness, wonder
Snakes appear often in my art, and have for years. Snake also emerged as my animal/symbol for 2022. Is there a message here? Over millennia, earth-honoring cultures around the globe have carved snakes on rock art and painted them on pottery. Because of their ability...
by Anne Peek | Jun 28, 2022 | agenda, anger, archetypes, balance, body wisdom, breath, communication, conflict, connection, cranky, creativity, darkness, earth, expansion, hope, imagination, intuition, life-giving, listening, messages, modern life, noise, overwhelm, possibilities, practice, rejuvenation, resistance, self-care, self-reflection, shadow, soul, spirit, tarot, the feminine, transformation, Uncategorized, values, vision, vulnerability, women
I’m angry. You know why. I bet you’re angry too. Plenty of reasons in the news, and more every day. Hard NOT to be angry about something these days. My anger is deep. Feels centuries old. I think it IS centuries old. At times my fury creates hostile, venomous...
by Anne Peek | Oct 6, 2021 | animals, artistic expression, body wisdom, cats, communication, connection, cranky, creativity, earth, expansion, freedom, growth, heart, imagination, intuition, life-giving, listening, messages, nature, possibilities, self-reflection, spirit, subpersonalities, the feminine, transformation, wildness, women
I think some older, fiercer being is emerging in me. I’m not sure what She will have me do in the coming months, but I want to tell you the story in case someone like her is emerging in you too. While She has been muttering to me for nearly a year, Her voice has most...
by Anne Peek | Jan 12, 2021 | affinity, agenda, balance, body wisdom, breath, communication, conflict, connection, creativity, darkness, expansion, growth, heart, hope, intuition, life-giving, listening, messages, modern life, pandemic, possibilities, rejuvenation, self-care, self-reflection, shadow, spirit, tarot, the feminine, transformation, Uncategorized, vision
National events distracted me today from my usual blog subject matter. So I sought guidance from the tarot. Specifically, I wanted to hear from the Tarot of the Crone, because the Crone’s voice feels ancient, female, earthy– a no-nonsense truth-teller. And from...
“There is a place where words are born of silence,
