Amid the changes… in Canada, it is the time of Beltane. To our friends in the Southern Hemisphere, it is Samhain. Each hemisphere is in Mother Nature’s cycle of change. In the North we are celebrating the height of spring and the welcoming of summer. Samhain is the time of acknowledging you are moving inwards and towards the longest nite of the year.

But these cross days are like nothing I have ever experienced. Where I live we are ending our Shelter in Place order. I have been very fortunate to have kept my job and have had little disruption to my life. On the outside. On the inside, I have had good days and bad days. I have been sensitive to the energy around me all of my life, and I have become quite resilient through time. I don’t quite feel so resilient right now. I go through waves of sadness, fatigue, frustration, depression, and anger. We have had protests in our City to open up our economy. I have to admit I have been staying off social media. Not because I am not interested in staying in touch with friends, I feel the life sucked out of me when I read the mountains of misinformation, paranoid musings, and conspiracy theories. [Read more…]