Lori Wallace

These are the two questions to contemplate from August's story of Vasalisa: When have you tended a question and found that something eventually came to meet you—in words, an action, an encounter, serendipity, the natural world, or simply a knowing? Or, when you find yourself striving to make something happen, what does that feel like in your body? What becomes harder to hear, notice, or receive? You don't need to resolve anything here. Simply notice what changes when, instead of forcing an...

The Emerald Tent Dear Friends, Tomorrow afternoon, we gather—and we do so on the crest of an unusually powerful full moon. Did you feel the pull? The moon was not only eclipsing, she was red and "bloody." This week we experienced the glacier collapse in Nepal, the passing of Dolly Parton, and the blurring of time for many. I heard people all day on Thursday confusing with Wednesday and Friday. The moon has her pull on our world and our psyches, and it growing. The Emerald Tent is...

I invite you to enter this story as either Psyche/Soul or Eros/Love, and share in your Moth Book. #1: Psyche's journey was not about avoiding life's trials, but allowing them to deepen the wisdom of her soul. Where has life asked your soul to trust, surrender, or endure—and what have those moments quietly taught you? #2: Eros didn't hide because he lacked love. He hid because he wasn't yet ready to be vulnerable. In what ways might your heart still hide rather than risk being fully seen? What...