Blog by Valerie – hope you enjoy another book chapter!
Initiations are rites of passage ceremonies marking existential life transitions. An important one across Indigenous and Western cultures is the …
Tag Archives: cosmology
Trauma & Healing
Blog by Valerie Cloud Clearer
As some of you know, I have been writing a book (or it’s being written through/with me may be more accurate language ), so I …
Faith, hope & trust
Blog by Valerie
Talking with a few people this week, it seems timely to share my perspective on these concepts and how I work with their energies. Though there can …
Our Primal Nature
Blog by Valerie
Right now it’s easy to feel survival fears, to observe deeply ingrained panic behaviours and to hear people talk about ‘these strange times.’ I understand the sentiment, …
Alienation & Judgment
Blog by Valerie
I was perhaps one of Earth’s most alienated of beings, and by that I mean that I did not sense belonging here. My cultural context was such …
Healing Whiteness Trauma
Blog by Valerie
…“The first step in liquidating a people…is to erase its memory…Before long a nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world
Thanks-Giving at Solstice
Blog by Valerie
A few months ago somewhere in the outback around Broken Hill, I experienced a spiritual lightning strike inside. Something in me died, an old dream (maybe …
On Climate Change
Blog by Lukas
Dear Greta,
I admire your fire and passion, and your courage to take on so much of the world’s attention. Whether this attention be loving, ambivalent, …
Power, Force & Corruption
Blog by Valerie
Building on some previous posts about power objects and healing unjust power dynamics, I realised it would be wise to define power and related terms. Energy is …
Altars, Shrines & Power Objects
Blog by Valerie
I am delighted to hear from people having success working with ancestral altars and have been asked to write more generally about altar and shrine practices. I will …