On this potent day of the New Moon in Leo🦁: how we can align with what is meant for us.
On this potent day of the New Moon in Leo🦁: How we can align with what is meant for us
Failure as an invitation to recalibrate: Self-discovery and awareness is there at every corner.
Failure as an invitation to recalibrate: self-discovery and awareness is there at every corner
Unleash your inner child: Why play is the best way to learn
Unleash your inner child: Why play is the best way to learn
Musings on language, growth and and the uncertainty that comes with a new cycle (rebirth).
I like to look up words in the dictionary to make sure that they are worth keeping or tossing out for a more precise word. It’s the communicator, the writer, and the witch in me…
Honoring my creative lineage: Earth. Soil. Soul. Seed
The older I get, the more I feel this tangible connection to land and all her children. I stand today with the knowing that I belong here, that I am a child of the Earth.
And the more I feel connected to this land, the more I feel a sadness and severing from the land where I was born…
Honoring my creative lineage: Berehynia
Berehynia (also Bohynia) is the Ancient Mother Goddess who is believed to be source of life and death in Ukrainian mythology.
She is celebrated as the life giving mother, the creator of heaven and all living things, and the mistress of heavenly water (rain), upon which the world relies for fertility and fruitfulness. On the other hand, she was thought to rule destiny.
Honoring my creative lineage: Maria Prymachenko
I first came to know Maria’s brilliant artwork when news broke out that many of her paintings were deliberately destroyed by russian missiles during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 while hanging at the Ivankiv Historical and Local History Museum. She has since become an honorary ancestor who is continually a source of inspiration for me in the ways her art embodies a Ukrainian creative spirit.
Honoring my creative lineage: The elements
Thank you, Water, for cleansing me and returning me back to the flow of my rivers, the waves of my ocean, the calm of my tears; for reminding me that there is always time to slow down, take a deep breath and tune in…
Honoring my creative lineage: Beloved Luna (Moon)
My ancient ancestors learned to measure time based on the changes in nature and months based on the moon. The moon has always been an important guide and reminder that time is passing and to do the best we can with the time we have…
Honoring my creative lineage: Beloved plant allies
My ancestral roots are tied up with plants. Like the mycelium networks that speak and offer nourishment to trees, I stand taller with the support of the beloved green ones…
Honoring my creative lineage: An Ode to the land of my bones
I write this love letter to the land where I took my first breath, the breath that connects me back to the many generations of ancestors whose hands worked the earth, growing, singing, laughing and dreaming. This is a homage to the land of my people, where our story begins…
Honoring my creative lineage: Baba Xima
Baba Xima was my paternal great-grandmother. It was a long journey to get from our apartment in Kyiv to the Skorinets village in the Chernigiv Oblast where generations of my father’s family originated...
Honoring my creative lineage: Auntie Alyona
Alyona was my favorite auntie not family side. Her chest would bounce when she laughed; her firey joy filled the entire room…
Honoring my creative lineage: Babushka Lida
My paternal grandmother was a feisty one. If she wanted something done one way, you couldn’t change her mind. She had a laser focus and an unbending will….
Honoring my creative lineage: pra-Babushka Leza
I never met my maternal great-grandmother Babushka Leza. I only really know about her life from the stories that are shared among family members who knew her….
Honoring my creative lineage: Papa Valera.
My father, or as I lovingly referred to him as papa, was an incredible storyteller; he wasn’t an overtly talkative man but he had an exceptional gift for…
Honoring my creative lineage: Babushka Valia.
This month, I will write a series of vignettes honoring my creative lineage, which includes the people and forces that have shaped me, prayed for me and dreamed me into being, so that I may walk…
You are on the right path because that's the path you are on.
For so long, I would question and doubt myself. Am I doing the right thing? Am I moving in the right direction…
"I feel the most beautiful": words that shift from the inside out.
I was scrolling through IG the other day and I came across a video with a woman sitting on a stool being interviewed. Her words flowed out like a song, like an anthem to a self-love revolution. "I feel the most beautiful when I remember that my body is not a thing to be looked at but a moment to enjoy".
The stories I am ready to release: a daily practice of letting go and stepping into my wholeness.
Solar Return Ascendant in Scorpio. That's what my astrologer and teacher, Mal Mathurin, told me when I reached out to her. Honestly, it had been a hard year, maybe two or three but it took her looking at my chart to really land. "This is a time of death for you and with death comes grief and release…