Author: cathytowle

  • Owning Wisdom and Power in Spiritualist Traditions.

    This is not my usual post, as I don’t often talk about the shamanic side of Mediumship, mostly because it is misunderstood and misinterpreted by a predominately white european view of Mediumship. And yet, spiritualist traditions have a beautiful trajectory throughout the world, and a very strong root in the black, latin and indigenous communities.  Last week I…

  • Loving Ourselves in the Midst of Tremendous Change

    Love. This is where I want to start. Just saying that word makes a shift. Love, love, love. It opens doors. It can move mountains. It can change our hearts. I don’t know about you, but I have been heartbroken over the past year. Each new division, violent act, revelation, and disconnected directive from our…

  • Spirituality vs. the Politics of Confusion

    An Aquarius Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse political, spiritual rant…sort of! Last moth I participated in the HLPF (High Level Political Forum) at the UN. The HLPF is a way for civil society, us regular people in NGO’s, to get involved with contributing to policy that gets taken up formally by the international community at the UN.…

  • Uncovering Your Path to Love

    VDay Reading Special Offer! “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” -Rumi Aw, here we are again, celebrating the holiday of love. I enthusiastically support any excuse to be reminded of it!! To help you be steeped in…

  • Full Moon/Eclipse in Leo: The Return of the Feminine

    The Full Snow Moon/Eclipse in Leo + Comet 45P/ Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova February 10, 2017 at 7:32 p.m. EDT Comet 45P/ Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova This is one of my favorite times of the year, the Snow moon, and with a fresh blanket of snow in my neck of the woods in Brooklyn. I think it’s the first real snow I…

  • 4 Ways to Improve Inner Guidance

    We were all born with intuitive gifts, but over the years, as our logical brains developed, most of us turned off this crucial “in the gut” connection. Our feeling, sensing selves sublimated to our more rational thinking, proof oriented nerd selves. Which isn’t bad, we need those skills to be in the world around us…

  • Spiritual Tools for Troubled Times

    Four Ways to Help Yourself Stay Sane In order to remain responsive to the change all around us, and to support our friends and families, here are a few suggestions to rally our strength for the coming months. 1. Get lots of sleep. So here’s the truth, our worry changes nothing. It only harms us.…

  • Blessings of the Solstice

    Here comes the darkness! And with it, an opportunity to start anew. Making friends with the darkness allows its power to infuse us with its grace. We are directed inside. Fear melts. Calm ensues. We rest, as the sun seems to sit still in the darkness. This is a sacred process, the spiritual death of…

  • Healing our fractured hearts, a shamanic look at violent acts

    My heart is breaking once again as we mourn the violent deaths of regular people in Nice, France, enjoying their lives, killed by a thug wanting to make his mark. I am faced with the same question that comes up every time this happens: Who can commit such an act of cruelty and hatred of…

  • Kids and Ghosts, What to Do.

    The subject came up recently on a parents list serve about kids seeing ghosts. It’s hard in a public forum like that, where people might not be wanting to hear about esoteric information, to comment fully. So I am going to undertake the subject here a little bit. I began seeing spirits at the tender…