My path has taken me through many portals...
| Though I have been on a spiritual path all of my life, I think the real turning point was in 1980. At 38 years old, raising two wonderful daughters, I was working as a concierge and giving much of my time in my children’s schools. As my children grew, I realized I was missing something in my life that was just for me, something that would nourish my soul. |
 Photo by Bill Apton |
I began to study in the field of alternative health. After several years of school, I graduated a Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Transpersonal NLP Practitioner, Massage Therapist, and Certified Reiki Practitioner.
This path led me to continued spiritual search and study with Shamans, Cross-Cultural Anthropologists, Native-Americans, Wiccans, Metaphysicians, and for a time, I lived in a Buddhist temple.
The Divine Feminine entered into my consciousness. I traveled the world in search of the Goddess. I learned that many cultures including India, Asia, South and Central America, Egypt, Greece, and Indigenous people everywhere live immersed with the qualities of Divine Female Deities.
I wasn’t raised with this knowledge, nor (I’ve found) are most Judeo-Christian Americans.
I fell in love with HER and came to know her as a part of me. I felt my soul fill up with compassion and love.
My hypnotherapy practice thrived as I brought in the healing energy and unconditional love of the Divine Mother.
I began to celebrate Earth-based religions (or Paganism). I had found that we are all connected to each other and to the sacred through everything that is alive.
I led groups of women into nature to re-connect with the web of life and themselves; to honor the change of seasons taking place on Mother Earth and in their own lives.
This led to my becoming an Ordained Priestess in the Temple of Isis. I began to lead a yearlong Priestess Apprenticeship in 1998, honoring the eight holidays of the Pagan calendar. The initiates learn how to create sacred space, perform rituals, and celebrate the Holy Days. Each year, these Priestesses are being ordained and doing their work in the world filled with the love of the Goddess.
Being so connected to Mother Nature and living with her cycles, I felt the need to move from Marin County to a place deeper in nature. I founded “Lilith”, a Spiritual Retreat in the redwoods in West Sonoma County, CA. It has become a Temple to the Goddess, including an organic fruit orchard and vegetable gardens, and flowers dancing everywhere.
Every day I thank the Goddess for leading me here. With each step I take on this wonderful land that I steward, I am deeply connected to Mother Earth and all her sacredness. I have returned. I have stepped back in time; into an old pair of shoes and I am walking the path I was meant to walk. I am blessed.