Greetings from the stonetalker!
Welcome to my alter-ego.
I think I knew from an early age I was different. Goodness knows I never really fit in anywhere! I'm too English to be American and too American to be English; I'm too white to be red and too red to be white; I'm too Christian to be Pagan and too Pagan to be Christian. It's taken me nearly half a century to learn that its' all okay, I'm fine just as I am. I'm still a 'work in progress,' and that is okay, too.
My perpetual curiosity about who I was - who any of us were - what made us tick, and why we were all here, took me to study many different cultures and disciplines. I have spent time with Druid elders, Cherokee medicine men and women, Lenni Lenape chiefs, Buddhist teachers, and Wiccan High Priestesses. My faith is as much of an enigma as I am, and I can now accept that. It works for me and that is all that matters.
I suppose I draw most of my earthwalk from Nature and her bounty, and time honored traditions. When I was given the name 'the stonetalker' I immediately resonated with it, for rocks speak to me, each with their own personality and message. By opening into the world of what the stones had to say to me, I realized that everything speaks, everything sings, everything dances. We just get too wrapped up in our modern world to see it, and I think that is sad.
Where did all this curiosity and learning bring me? Right to where I am, and I don't think that is a bad place to be! As a stonetalker, I work with the energies of stones from the common pebble to the wonderful gemstones, bringing messages from their kingdom into our reality, in the hopes that peace and balance may be found. Through talking with the stones, I learned to speak with herbs and flowers in much the same way. Everything will teach us if we just listen.
A few years ago I started studying the Tarot. Actually, if the truth be known, I studied the Tarot and astrology and a bit of numerology (as well as some alternative therapies like reflexology, noesitherapy, and aromatherapy massage) in the 1990's, but because I did not 'see' what my teacher told me I ought to be 'seeing,' I gave it up as a bad job. A very gifted friend of mine, Karen Gold, taught me a few years ago that while the traditional correspondences of the Tarot were important, it was what the cards meant to me that made the reading. Sadly, Karen died in 2009, but her legacy lives on through what she taught me, and the Tarot card collection which she left me.
Now, I am the Dean of Faculty at the Grey School, where I write and teach classes on metaphysical topics. I am a professional intuitive for a multinational company, a member of the American Tarot Association, and a certified professional reader by the TCBA.
When I reflect over where my life has taken me, I am sometimes surprised to find that I landed here, but then, who am I to argue with the will of the Divine! Here is not a bad place to be... welcome to my world.
I think I knew from an early age I was different. Goodness knows I never really fit in anywhere! I'm too English to be American and too American to be English; I'm too white to be red and too red to be white; I'm too Christian to be Pagan and too Pagan to be Christian. It's taken me nearly half a century to learn that its' all okay, I'm fine just as I am. I'm still a 'work in progress,' and that is okay, too.
My perpetual curiosity about who I was - who any of us were - what made us tick, and why we were all here, took me to study many different cultures and disciplines. I have spent time with Druid elders, Cherokee medicine men and women, Lenni Lenape chiefs, Buddhist teachers, and Wiccan High Priestesses. My faith is as much of an enigma as I am, and I can now accept that. It works for me and that is all that matters.
I suppose I draw most of my earthwalk from Nature and her bounty, and time honored traditions. When I was given the name 'the stonetalker' I immediately resonated with it, for rocks speak to me, each with their own personality and message. By opening into the world of what the stones had to say to me, I realized that everything speaks, everything sings, everything dances. We just get too wrapped up in our modern world to see it, and I think that is sad.
Where did all this curiosity and learning bring me? Right to where I am, and I don't think that is a bad place to be! As a stonetalker, I work with the energies of stones from the common pebble to the wonderful gemstones, bringing messages from their kingdom into our reality, in the hopes that peace and balance may be found. Through talking with the stones, I learned to speak with herbs and flowers in much the same way. Everything will teach us if we just listen.
A few years ago I started studying the Tarot. Actually, if the truth be known, I studied the Tarot and astrology and a bit of numerology (as well as some alternative therapies like reflexology, noesitherapy, and aromatherapy massage) in the 1990's, but because I did not 'see' what my teacher told me I ought to be 'seeing,' I gave it up as a bad job. A very gifted friend of mine, Karen Gold, taught me a few years ago that while the traditional correspondences of the Tarot were important, it was what the cards meant to me that made the reading. Sadly, Karen died in 2009, but her legacy lives on through what she taught me, and the Tarot card collection which she left me.
Now, I am the Dean of Faculty at the Grey School, where I write and teach classes on metaphysical topics. I am a professional intuitive for a multinational company, a member of the American Tarot Association, and a certified professional reader by the TCBA.
When I reflect over where my life has taken me, I am sometimes surprised to find that I landed here, but then, who am I to argue with the will of the Divine! Here is not a bad place to be... welcome to my world.
"But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowl of the air, and they shall teach thee. Or speak to the Earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee." Job 12:7,8