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Your interpretations of yourself interacting with your realm create your thoughts. Your thoughts fuel your emotions. Your emotions become your words and your actions. Your actions create your realm. You see clearly then the creative power you hold. You are magic. Whether new to the integration path or a seasoned player, it is always beneficial to practice balancing emotional waters. The image I give you is a cattail, representing the alchemical elements of water, earth, air,

1) Humor. Wisdom can be the embrace of an experience as silly or funny, inconsequential, or insignificant. “What would my cosmic, playful inner child say?” Or, “What would my inner Crone/Wise Woman (or man) say?” 2) 369 Surrender (Passive energetics (3) to discharge the Active force (6) and access the third force (9); the third force or the 9 is also the Reconciling force) Listen to the song “In a Sky Full of Stars” (Coldplay): “I don’t care, go on and tear me apart…I

“Real Gold Does Not Fear the Furnace.”-Chinese Proverb Fire tests gold, purifies it, and makes it brighter. You are gold, and alchemy is consciousness itself. Metaphors are alchemy. We can observe children and what they say and do through a metaphorical lens to help us connect with our own inner child and the truth of ourselves as powerful creators. Children remember, and when we listen, we can hear them reminding us. They are alchemists, just as we were and are, organicall

Corporal punishment and the view “children should be seen and not heard” were once cultural standards of accepted parenting. There is progress, as these notions are very much up for debate today. On one side of the debate is connected parenting, backed by research that shines a light on the profoundly harmful effects of the old parenting paradigm. On the other side of the debate are wounded adults who identify with programmed ideas of what “respect” looks like: vertical relat