The physical or emotional pain that you are feeling, or the type of life struggle that you keep coming back to, can indicate the chakra level where you got stuck or where some trauma occurred. So here they are, these chakras: lined up along your spine and into your skull from your perineum to just above your head. They overlie your body parts and organ systems and they relate to them. The chakras are also associated with different ages and stages of life-development, and thou

The chakra system is one particular map showing the possibilities of exploration, not necessarily what is the next right step for your particular path. As in, here you are with multiple possible pathways to figuring out what's underneath your pain - the emotions that you haven't been able to process, for instance - but there isn't one pathway that works cookie-cutter-like for everyone. My take on the chakra system is that it’s useful as a tool to point to the thing that is go

Many people are choosing to eat gluten free or entirely grain-free. That’s the current “magic bullet”. “My guts hurt. It must be the food that I am eating.” And it may genuinely be true, at least in part, but I also think we get stuffed full of the life experiences that we haven’t had a chance to slow down and digest. We get too full. Nothing more can come in. So we begin to have this drive to release: less clutter, different food, not this partner… Some of these are useful i

“Releasing” something or the effects of someone from your life without having processed it (at least a little) can do the opposite of what we want it to. From a Wiccan magical standpoint, releasing usually results in a bounce-back: the thing that you “release” actually comes up more and more strongly so that you can see it. If you declare out into the world that you are “done with abusive relationships,” or “done with anger,” the unprocessed parts of your experience that bind

Your kind attention to yourself, your consciousness and your presence in your own life are enough to shift some kinds of stuck stuff. Sometimes you need outside help because whatever you are struggling with is so deeply embedded that you cannot will yourself out of it. When it’s hard to look at, whatever it is, we have a tendency to go to sleep on it, as in, to lapse back into unconsciousness around it. Some life issues or experiences are so hard to digest that we have to kee