Turning the Wheel ~ Photographic Reflections on a Year of Pandemic Ritual
Holy Days at Heartward Sanctuary We are dancers in an ancient, cyclical, life-generating choreography of earth and sun. Our bodies are an expression of the earth dancing her praise for her beloved. For many of us, the past eighteen months have been full of profound...
Adapt or Die: Dancing with COVID
Photo: Fall Equinox Open-Air Ceremony at Heartward Sanctuary 9/20/22 “Ritual dances provide a religious experience that seems more satisfying and convincing than any other...It is with their muscles that humans most easily obtain knowledge of the divine.” ~Aldous...
End Times Beginning: A Meditation on Apocalypse
1. The Mainstreaming of Apocalypse Six months ago, the “end times” were the province of largely-fringe religious groups. Now the phrase seems to be on everybody’s lips, and not altogether ironically. The litany has become all too familiar: pandemic, unchecked police...
Permaculture and Learning to Listen to the Land
As of May, we’ve become stewards of 36 acres of traditional Shakori-Saponi lands in Silk Hope, NC (Haw River watershed). Having a home base for Heartward Sanctuary is a huge blessing, and blessings don’t often come without growing pains: we face a whole new set of...
Slipping into Sacred Time
By Jonathan Hadas Edwards & Julia Hartsell In our last article we argued that humankind is entering a chrysalis in which the old is melting down and from which the new will ultimately be born. This initiation is necessary from the butterfly’s point of view, but...
What if the Virus is the Medicine?
By Jonathan Hadas Edwards & Julia Hartsell The emerging pandemic is already a watershed of the early 21st century: things won’t ever be the same. Yet for all that the havoc that the virus is wreaking, directly and indirectly, it may also be part of the bitter...