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October 4, 2019

Meditation with Evangeline Soul Purpose

October 4, 2019
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evangelinehemrick

EvangelineHemrick.com
Intuitive Coach 🪶 Energy Healing Mentor🌀Death Doula Teacher 🪽Author of Amazon Bestseller: True Calling 📘

I have a thing for odd little staircases… and the I have a thing for odd little staircases… and the minds that dream them up. 😉

Jule Körner, you fascinating human.

I once officiated a wedding in the Folly’s theatre room on April Fools’ Day. Of course I did. ;)

Every time I wander through Körner’s Folly, I find another detail that makes me pause, smile, and wonder what was moving through his imagination.

To me, Jule was the original steampunk before there was a name for it. His home feels like an esoteric masterpiece, where art, sacred geometry, theatre and a wonderfully unconventional imagination all get to live together.

I feel a deep kinship with that kind of creator.

And now that we’ve built our own home on what was once Kerner family farmland, my connection to this place feels even more woven into my life. Land, home, imagination, ancestry… threads that keep finding each other. 🧬 

Some places feel familiar in ways I can’t quite explain. This home, and the person who dreamed it into being, feel connected to me across timelines.

So where better to gather for a celebration of memory, love, and the mysteries between worlds?

On November 1, we’re returning to the Folly for what we’ve decided will be our little annual Día de los Muertos tradition. 🌹

Last year, we gathered to watch The Last Ecstatic Days. This year, my friend Christine Rucker will share a private screening of her film Sisterhoodship before it heads to film festivals.

Two heart-centered projects. One special night.🌹

The Rose Center and Christine’s film come together in a celebration of community with cacao, rose petal tea, ceremony, remembrance, and stories that bring us closer.

For those joining us: make a little more of your afternoon and tour the Folly before the house closes at 4. Give yourself time to notice the curious corners and follow your own fascination before our gathering begins.

And yes, a little steampunk-inspired attire would feel right at home. 🎩✨

I have a feeling Jule would appreciate what we’re dreaming up. #steampunkstyle #independentfilm #deathdoulacollective #diademuertos☠️ #kernersville
FLOURISH. 🌸 That’s what came through my hands aft FLOURISH. 🌸

That’s what came through my hands after the music moved through my body.

At Many Women, Many Stories, I experienced Chakradance™ with the beautiful Heather E. Ayers (on FB). I was meeting her for the first time but she felt like someone I have always known. 

And there was a sixteen-year full circle moment tucked inside that room! 

In 2010, I co-taught “A Sensory Journey Through the Chakras,” weaving movement, sound, color, gemstones and essential oils into guided #chakrameditation 

As dance became part of our exploration, I thought, “Chakra dance! What a wonderful name.”
A little Google search revealed an existing modality and certification program based in Australia. I respected the name, set it aside and continued creating in my own way.

Sixteen years later, I finally got to experience it.
The music composed for the journey through each chakra was brilliant. Heather held us so beautifully. With my eyes covered, I felt that familiar freedom I love in ecstatic and trance dance: less attention on how I look, more room to feel the music in my body. 

Afterward, we were given colored chalk and paper to let the experience take shape.

Flowers. Spirals, Reaching, Growing. 🌀🌱

And here’s a teaching I hadn’t expected:
Where might my judgments about business be getting in the way of the flourishing I say I want?

As healing arts practitioners, we can pour ourselves into our gifts while feeling resistance toward naming them, building a “business” around them or claiming what we’ve created as our own intellectual property. It’s definitely a balancing act. 

Experiencing this lovingly developed practice softened something in me. I could feel the care, creativity and work behind it AND appreciate the structure that helped it reach this room, this facilitator, this moment. The trademark had held the integrity! 

Our gifts deserve thoughtful tending. So do the people who bring them into the world.

Thank you, Heather @youaredivinelife for creating such a beautiful space to move, remember and receive.

Go experience ChakraDance!
And perhaps ask yourself:

What am I ready to give permission to FLOURISH? 🌿
10/10 carried the energy of collaboration, aligned 10/10 carried the energy of collaboration, aligned community, and heart-centered leadership. 

After an entire career of speaking at health fairs, expos & symposiums, I thought I was finished with conferences. I just don’t feel the pull to do that anymore.

But 10/10 felt different. About 50 women gathered at the historic Brookstown Inn in Winston-Salem for the @manywomenmanystoriestriad conference: Innovators, Trailblazers & Matriarchs in full effect! 

Beautiful #storytellers brought out the #medicinewoman wisdom in each participant. It was such a powerful & sweet experience. 

Hearing these women’s stories of triumph over adversity, finding their way, and bringing new ideas into the world made my heart hopeful. 

And then there was my little assignment: condense teaching Human Design into 45 minutes. 😂

My prayer before speaking was simple: God, distill this down to only the words that matter. Help me ignite playful curiosity. Let this be a fun & expansive doorway into the sacred mathematics of the universe.🪐🚪

I once heard someone say, “Numbers are the language of God”. That resonates deeply because I love studying rhythms & cycles of the planets & nature. 

The I Ching, Mayan calendars, Medicine wheels, Yuga cycles, Human Design, and Gene Keys come from different traditions, but they are similar structures used to measure naturally occurring cycles in our cosmos. 

My hope was that everyone would leave feeling the beauty of their own piece of the puzzle and have more compassion for people whose intuitive gifts work differently.

We all have something to bring. 🧩

This gathering reminded me that I have so much more to share about the evolving approaches to Human Design, especially during what I experience as the crumbling of an old world and the emergence of a new one.

I’m planning a FREE Q&A session about the alternative 13-planet approach I’ve been studying: What happens when an additional planetary influence is included in the bodygraph chart, and what that might mean for us individually & collectively.

Bring your questions and your playful curiosity. You don’t need to know anything about #humandesign to join on Friday, 11/13 at 4pm, EST. 💗
I still have stories to tell you about Scotland. 😉 I still have stories to tell you about Scotland. 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

These stories keep asking to be woven together because I feel something in #storymedicine that belongs to all of us: the ancient remembering, the #ancestralhealing & being drawn to places we feel called to before we understand why.

 I haven’t even told you about Peebles yet! 

The Queen Mom’s ancestry research led us to this little town in Scotland. That name already held meaning for me: our Serpent Mound retreat groups had stayed together in Peebles, Ohio twice last year. Now here we were, following my mother’s ancestral thread to Peebles, Scotland.

Getting there took us well out of our way. At one point, my brother asked Mom, “Are you sure it’s worth going this far just to see this little town?”

Oh, it was worth it. 🥹

We found Neidpath Castle overlooking the River Tweed. We ate wonderful food and met beautiful people at the Neidpath Inn. 

And around Neidpath Castle, the plants spoke to me more than anywhere on our Scotland journey. Rowan was blooming everywhere and Wild Rose Hips & elderberry adorned the castle. 

Best part of all? We got to witness our mother arrive in a place she had first discovered through names & records. And now there she was, connecting to the sacred ground, feeling it all! 🧬

There’s something so tender about witnessing someone you love follow a thread through generations and finally drop into all the stories that location holds for her lineage. 🧵

Then came another unexpected turn for us. 

I shared a little “hello from Peebles” message with the beautiful souls who joined me for our 2 Serpent Mound retreats. 

And now… it looks like a Scotland pilgrimage/reunion is forming! 

From Peebles, Ohio, to Peebles, Scotland! A new retreat with those who have already shared sacred ground & ceremony together.

I’m still taking that part in and processing the magnitude of it. 

Mom wanted to see where her ancestors lived so we took the long drive. Peebles is already calling us back. 

What thread is calling you to follow it, even if you don’t yet know where it leads? 🧶

Stay playful and curious without expectations. You jus
What if learning your Human Design could open up a What if learning your Human Design could open up a whole new way of working with your clients? ✨

I’m teaching about this at the Many Women, Many Stories conference on October 9th & 10th. 

I’ll be introducing my own unique approach to Human Design: a revolutionary system that reaches beyond the traditional 12-planet template and explores what this work can look like through the Age of Aquarius lens.

My signature method brings intuition, energy work and lived experience into the learning process, so you can begin to feel how your design expresses itself in everyday life.

If you’re a coach, consultant or energy healing practitioner, come explore how this perspective could enrich your sessions and help your clients recognize and trust their own intuitive gifts.

And if you’re simply curious about your own energy blueprint, that is perfect! 💛

Registration is open through October 8. Come with playful curiosity. I’d love to share this part of my work with you!

#ManyWomenManyStories #WisdomThroughStories #humandesign #trustyourintuition #intuitivedevelopment
Before the Scotland trip. I asked Mom to braid my Before the Scotland trip. I asked Mom to braid my hair again like she did when I was a girl. 

When I was young, Mom would braid my clean, wet hair before bed. Then I would wake up, loosen the braids and have easy waves for school, no styling necessary. 

At first, it was a practical request for the trip. We were traveling quickly, waking early and fitting lifetimes of experience into every day. Braiding my wet hair at night meant one less thing to manage in the morning.
But then something else happened, something incredibly sweet and special. 

There I was, a grown woman sitting in front of my mother on the floor while her familiar hands braided my hair exactly as they had when I was a child.
This became one of the sweetest nightly rituals of our pilgrimage. 

Across many cultures and eras, hair has carried special meaning: identity, ancestry, belonging, status, devotion and spiritual protection. Braiding has also been a communal act of hands weaving hair while stories & teachings are shared with love, passing from one generation to another.🥹

And then I noticed something totally unexpected! 
I slept differently with my hair braided.

My rest felt deeper. My energy felt more contained. It made me wonder about the old teachings that regard hair as an energetic antenna and whether gathering the hair before sleep creates a kind of energetic boundary while we travel through dreams?!

So what if hair braiding brings the energy back toward the body? What if our ancestors knew it was so much more? 

What if three strands woven together create a gentle message of coherence for body, mind and spirit… past, present and future… mother, daughter & ancestors?

What if my mom was doing more than braiding my hair? 
What if she was helping me contain my energy during time in the astral plane? 
Do you experience your hair as part of your energetic sensitivity?
Have you ever noticed a difference in your sleep, dreams or nervous system when your hair is braided, covered or gently bound at night?

And did someone you love ever braid your hair? 
I would love to hear about the #ancestralwisdom & memories living in your strands. 🧬🪢
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WHEN THE STONES CALL YOU BACK SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WHEN THE STONES CALL YOU BACK 🌀🪨

Clava Cairns is an ancient ceremonial site outside Inverness, where cairns and standing stones have remained part of the landscape for 4,000 years or more. 

This is the ancient sacred site often associated with Craigh na Dun, the fictional stone circle in Outlander, but these are not movie props. 
These are the real deal ancient stones! 

The moment I entered that space, I felt my voice lower and a hush of respect wash over me, just like I was entering a temple, the exact same way I always feel at Serpent Mound.

These gorgeous stones are record keepers, holding the imprint of the land, the elements and the generations of human beings who have gathered around them. They have witnessed prayers, grief, ceremony, death & devotion for thousands of years. 

There is knowledge here that cannot be learned by reading a plaque.

There is wisdom here that is transferred directly: stone to body, land to nervous system, presence to presence. And the same goes for the ancient elder trees who live here, too. 

Standing among the stones at Clava Cairns felt like entering a living library older than language.🧬

And now, the stones are calling us back! 

When I shared my experience with the groups who traveled with me on two retreats to Serpent Mound in Ohio, they simply said:
“Take us there.”

And just like that, an entire Scotland #sacredsites pilgrimage/retreat began forming.

I had no intention of leading a group to Scotland next year. But then again, I didn’t originally intend to lead two retreats to Serpent Mound either.

Sometimes these experiences aren’t created through planning.
Retreats & workshops create themselves when the timing is right.
The land calls and the people who are meant to go hear it. 
Then, a container begins forming around that collective energy.🌀

So next year, I will return to #clavacairns with a group of people who already understand that ancient earthworks and stones are not remnants of a dead past.

These are living places of relationship & they are still speaking, still teaching, very much alive. 
And when we become quiet enough, humble enough and present…
we can still learn from them.
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WATER MAGIC & FAIRY CHASING O SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WATER MAGIC & FAIRY CHASING ON THE ISLE OF SKYE 🧚‍♀️💦

On the Isle of Skye, beneath the historic Old Sligachan Bridge, runs a river with an irresistible fairy legend.

The story says that if you kneel beside the river and submerge your face in its freezing water, the local faeries may bless you with eternal beauty and youth. 

Well, obviously, I had to do it. 😂

So I knelt at the edge of the Sligachan River and let the waters of Skye have their way with me.
As we journeyed to the Fairy Pools later, Mom had a realization that may have been even more magical than the fairy legend itself.

She looked at those crystalline pools flowing down from the mountains and suddenly exclaimed:
“I have my own fairy pools in North Carolina!”
And she does.

The mountain river running beside her home tumbles over ancient stones, gathers in clear little pools and carries living medicine through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Travel can be a form of energy cultivation. It can awaken us, expand our consciousness and return fragmented parts of ourselves to us.

But travel can also become a distraction if we are always searching somewhere else for the beauty, healing or enchantment we have not yet learned to recognize where we already live.

Sometimes a faraway land activates something ancient within us.
And sometimes the greatest gift of a pilgrimage is that it teaches us how well-resourced we already are. 

I was activated with charged land, pure air and places where the natural world is still honored as alive. I came home with a renewed commitment to the waters of North Carolina. It’s an honor to listen to my own bodies of water & work with them, becoming a better steward of the land beneath my feet at home. 

The magic is in Scotland, 
The magic is in North Carolina. 
The enchantment of nature is wherever you live on this gorgeous planet. Our job is to enhance beauty & magic wherever we are. 

Perhaps we travel to sacred places not because the sacred is absent from our own lives, but because sometimes we need another landscape to teach us about what we already have. 

#WaterStewardship #SacredWater #WaterIsLife #NatureAsMedicine #isleofskye
EQUINOX: A RETURN TO BALANCE 🌗 Today, the light a EQUINOX: A RETURN TO BALANCE 🌗

Today, the light and darkness meet one another in balance. ☯️

And maybe there’s nothing we need to do about that-no elaborate ritual, no pressure to create a profound experience or make the day mean something.

Perhaps we simply need to breathe into the balance that nature is giving us. ⚖️

We live in a culture that celebrates action and forward motion. But nature never asks the earth to remain in perpetual bloom or production. 

There is a time to grow, 
A time to harvest, 
A time to release, 
And a time to rest, just like King Solomon said. 

For years, I wondered why I could teach people about the importance of equinoxes and solstices and when the next one arrived, so many had already forgotten.

Then I realized:
We have been living in a kind of cultural exile from nature.

Many of us were never taught to notice the changing light or the intelligence within the cycles of the earth. We learned to organize our lives by clocks, fake calendars and forced productivity, not nature’s rhythms.

But the seasons move through us whether we acknowledge them or not.
The light & darkness affects us, 
The planets affect us, 
The cycles & seasons all have an influence, belief system not required.
And that is something beautiful we all share.

Whatever our background or beliefs, we live beneath the same sky, held by the same earth and moving through the same cycles of light and darkness.

The good news is that I believe we are finding our way out of separation into connection with nature. 

We are remembering how to watch the sky & listen to the land.
We’re reclaiming how to honor our bodies when they ask for movement and when they ask for rest.
We are re-establishing how to work with nature’s rhythms instead of struggling against them.

When we return to nature, we come home to ourselves. 

So today, you don’t need to accomplish anything for the equinox.
Just pause & take a breath.

Notice where you have been giving more than receiving.
Where action needs to be balanced with rest.
Where you might welcome both the light and the dark without forcing or trying. The gift of the #equinox is yours for the taking. 

#autumnequinox 🌗 #happyequinox
🍂 WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SCOTLAND S 🍂 WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SCOTLAND STORY TIME…

…for two vimportant occasions that happen on the same day: 
The Autumn Equinox and the birthday of my beloved Steve! 

The Equinox is one of the sacred balancing moments of the year-a moment when light and darkness meet as equals before the wheel of the seasons turns once again. ☯️

And then there is Steve, technically a Virgo, but born right on the cusp between Virgo and Libra, which makes perfect sense to anyone who knows him well. He carries the hardworking, practical, organized nature of Virgo but also the Libra love of beauty, harmony, partnership. ⚖️

I whisked the big guy away away for a little rest and restoration at Grandover Spa before he celebrates 63! 🥳 It was such a great reset & recharge for both of us. 

By the way I have absolutely no idea why there is an enormous picture of Pilot Mountain beside the spa pool…🤣

…but if you can’t take the man to Pilot Mountain, bring Pilot Mountain to the man in the hot tub. 

Happy birthday to the one I love and happy #autumnequinox to everyone in the northern hemisphere. May we honor both the light and the darkness, the productive work and the rest, the giving and the receiving. 

Scotland story medicine will resume shortly. 😉
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY THREE Isle of Skye 🧜‍♀️ a SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY THREE
Isle of Skye 🧜‍♀️ and Isle of Raasay 🌊

“Pull the car over right now! Pull the car over!”

My dad thought something was wrong, so he stopped immediately. But nothing was wrong. Mom had read about Skye long before she ever visited Scotland. On their first arrival, she simply had to get out and dance as soon as her feet touched the ground.

So, of course, Mom, Angie and I had to do that again! 💃🏻

We breathed the salty air, ate wonderful food and took in waterscapes almost too gorgeous to be true.

Then Skye gave us another gift: the accommodations we wanted were fully booked.

Thinking beyond our original plan led us to the magical Isle of Raasay. Another apparent inconvenience was rearranging the journey on our behalf.

We took the ferry over and there were dolphins.
Dolphins! In Scotland! 🐬

We stayed at the Isle of Raasay Distillery. Beautiful accommodations, extraordinary food and a behind-the-scenes tour. What a class act. 

Now, true confession…
I want to be in the cool, fancy whisky club. 🥃 I’m just not friends with whisky! 😂
I tried the tastings. I really tried. 
But my body gave me a very clear, intuitive NO.

I may not love the finished potion, but I loved witnessing the alchemy.

Barley, water, yeast, copper vats, oak barrels = magic! 🧪

Those enormous copper stills! You all know I’m straight up obsessed with copper, right?!? The care given to the ingredients and the island’s structured water all spoke to the water-stewardship lessons unfolding throughout this pilgrimage.

I didn’t need to enjoy the whisky to appreciate the artistry & alchemy. 

👑 Skye gave us my mother’s dance.
🐑 Raasay gave us dolphins, sheep, plant medicine and copper vessels. 

Another fully booked “no” guided us somewhere we didn’t know we needed to be.

Sometimes the unexpected island is the surprise waiting for you all along. ✨

#IsleOfSkye #IsleOfRaasay #ScotlandPilgrimage #WaterStewardship #SacredTravel
My parents loved Glencoe so much that they came ho My parents loved Glencoe so much that they came home to North Carolina and named their farm after it. 

We spent our first two nights in the Highlands at the Isles of Glencoe. Two nights at @islesofglencoe were not nearly enough but then again, nowhere we stayed was long enough.

When we entered our hotel room and opened the door, the water was directly accessible outside our room. 

And standing there to welcome us were a blue heron and a white crane! Whaaaat?!? 

I found a little spot on a hiking trail and began practicing #qigong moving through blue heron and white crane inspired movements with the actual birds right there with me for reference. 

It felt like Scotland was speaking a language my body already knew.

That moment opened an unexpected opportunity for me. I already knew this would be an ancestral pilgrimage. I knew I would be listening to the land. What I hadn’t understood was how much this journey would teach me about the consciousness of water. 

Everywhere we stayed, we found ourselves in direct relationship with a sacred body of💧water: each loch, river or pool had its own codes, intelligence and healing power. 

The water at Glencoe was the first to speak. The sacred water wasn’t simply gorgeous scenery. It was my teacher.

Scotland’s water felt powerful, spiritually charged and deeply communicative. The living crystal codes 💠 awakened something in me that I’m still learning about now that I’m home.

There is so much more I want to share about what the waters of Scotland taught me. Those teachings will probably become their own podcast episodes later. 

For now, I simply want to honor the place where the doorway first opened and the two winged allies were there to welcome us.

Glencoe, I understand why my parents love you and now so do I. 🪽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
My new flower friend is Fireweed, btw. 

#GlencoeScotland #ScotlandPilgrimage #WaterStewardship SacredWater
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY TWO Harry Potter Jacobite SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY TWO
Harry Potter Jacobite Steam Train 🚂 

I thought this day would be about riding the Harry Potter steam train but it became so much more. 

For months, I checked and checked for first-class tickets on the Jacobite, but they remained completely sold out. Mom had dreamed of experiencing it this way, and I had quietly held onto the hope that somehow we might be able to upgrade our tickets for the full effect: tea, shortbread and all! 🫖

On the morning of our journey, I walked up to the guard on the platform and asked one more time if we could upgrade our tickets. 

And guess what? 🪄
There were exactly two first-class seats available.

Angie and Trevor immediately said, “Take them. Put Queen Mom in first class. We’ll be perfectly happy with the view from back here.”

And just like that, we got to surprise her. 🥹

The experience was more beautiful than I could have imagined. The carriages were so “steampunk” style, which I absolutely love. The sound and rhythm of the working steam engine, the mountains and lochs unfolding beyond our windows, and crowds of people gathered along the hillsides just to watch the train pass & wave to us. It was so fun! 

But beneath the Harry Potter magic lives an even older story. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This route carries you through Glenfinnan, where Prince Charlie raised his standard in 1745 and the Highland clans gathered for the final Jacobite Rising. We weren’t simply traveling through a landscape where Harry Potter was filmed. She was moving through the history of Scotland and the ancestral land that had been calling her home.

We passed the eight locks of Neptune’s Staircase,💧traveled from Fort William to the seaside village of Mallaig, shared a beautiful meal by the water, and then climbed aboard for the journey back where we started. 

The Jacobite/Harry Potter train was one of the experiences Mom wanted the most and at the very last moment, two seats were waiting for us. 🧙

Sometimes sold out simply means trust your intuition and ask one more time. 😉

#HarryPotterScotland #ScotlandPilgrimage #TrustYourIntuition 
#steampunkstyle 
#AncestralSites
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE, CONTINUED My parents SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE, CONTINUED
My parents brought “hippie cows” to NC! 

After Scotland welcomed Mom home with a full rainbow over Loch Lomond, we stopped for our first little cup of coffee at a dairy farm. Even through we saw so many Starbucks on the trip, I was only interested the real deal family farms and local coffee shops. 

And there they were, like a reunion with old friends: Scottish Highland cattle! ❤️
Those shaggy, long-haired creatures people in NC used to call our “hippie cows” or “teddy bear cows” inspired my veganism for much of my life. 

Seeing those adorable cows again opened an unexpected doorway into our family history and into a much larger story I haven’t told yet.

My dad began as a poor janitor cleaning floors at night. At 27, he invented the first commercially available propane-powered floor machine. His invention became an extraordinary American success story. 

He was named North Carolina Small Businessman of the Year, appeared in Inc. magazine, and built one of the country’s fastest-growing privately held companies.

He and Mom had fallen in love with Scotland, so they created Glencoe Highland Farms along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Sparta, North Carolina. Dad found a way to bring Scottish Highland cattle into our mountains, where practically no one had ever seen anything like them.

I have good reason to believe they may have been among the very first Highland cattle in North Carolina, possibly even the first, and I’m now following the old records to discover exactly where Dad found them and how he got them there.

More than three decades later after falling in love with those sweet gentle souls, there they were again on our first day in Scotland. 🐮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The mural at the end of this reel is the creation of @lacywilsonart 
My family member just “happened” to be hiking out west and discovered this mural in the middle of nowhere. I find the artist’s last name to be a beautiful synchronicity. ❤️
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE The Rainbow at Loch L SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE
The Rainbow at Loch Lomond 🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I’m home from the most incredible trip of my life, and I’ve decided to share each day with you, one sacred site and precious moment at a time. 

This pilgrimage was a gift from our mother to Trevor, his wife Angie and me. She said giving us this trip was her dream come true. 

During the first part of our journey, we returned Mom to places where she and Dad had made beautiful memories together when he was alive, places my brother Trevor and I had never experienced with them. We got to walk into those memories with her, hear the stories again and witness the sweetness of who they had been together.

Then, during the second part of our trip, we carried her into new experiences, new places she had always dreamed of seeing. 

It was a trip of memory and discovery.

This adventure was both a completion and a beginning that will take a long time to process & integrate. 

Our very first stop, fresh off the plane, was the water of Loch Lomond.

We walked down to the water’s edge beneath a gorgeous Scottish sky. There was no rainbow when we arrived and then, almost instantly, it appeared.

A complete rainbow presented to us, its entire arc stretching across the sky and touching the landscape on both sides.

It felt as though Scotland herself had been waiting for my mother.

Welcome home, Linda.

We stood there at the edge of that ancient water, witnessing a blessing we could never have arranged, scheduled or manufactured.

The land knew she had returned.

And that was how our pilgrimage began.

I cry every time I think about it.

We didn’t know then that every single day would somehow become even more magical, but Scotland had already given us her promise. 🌈
You were never meant to search for your intuition. You were never meant to search for your intuition.
You were born with it.

The magic you’re looking for isn’t somewhere outside of you. It lives in your awareness, your imagination, your choices, your words, and the way you create meaning from every moment.

You are not here to escape reality.
You are here to participate in creating it.

Your thoughts shape your stories.
Your attention shapes your experience.
Your intention shapes the way you move through the world.

The real magic is remembering who you have always been. ✨

Want to discover your own creative power and create your personal manifesto?

Comment “MANIFESTO” below and I’ll send you the link to grab your copy.

#PersonalManifesto #CreativePower #InnerWisdom #TrustYourIntuition #SelfDiscovery
Your intuition doesn’t grow by controlling nature. Your intuition doesn’t grow by controlling nature.
It grows by learning to listen.

For so long, we’ve been taught to ask:

“What can nature give me?”
“What can I gain?”
“How can I use this?”

But a deeper relationship begins with a different question:

“Who are you?”

When we slow down and truly listen, everything begins to shift.
Flowers become teachers. Trees become elders. Nature becomes a mirror for our own wisdom.

Intuition isn’t something you force.
It’s something you remember.

✨ You were born for this.

Get your copy of The Manifesto and begin your journey into right relationship, presence, and deeper connection.

Comment “MANIFESTO” and I’ll send you the details.

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What if Human Design didn’t have to be so… complic What if Human Design didn’t have to be so… complicated? 

If you’ve ever opened your chart, seen all the lines, numbers, gates, channels, arrows and colors, and thought…

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS?! 😂
You’re not alone. 

Come sit with me at Many Women, Many Stories, October 9–10 and I’ll show you how to use your own treasure map.🤓

I’ll be teaching Human Design through a more 5D, Age of Aquarius, Divine Feminine approach. It will be less memorizing a complex system, more learning to recognize and trust the unique intelligence already living inside you.

Your #humandesign bodygraph contains clues to your intuitive superpowers: the complex ways your body, senses and perception receive information before your logical mind can explain it.

Human Design is an extraordinary map for recognizing those gifts, but the map was never meant to become more important than the territory.

YOU are the territory, the ecosystem. 

At the conference, I’ll help you begin identifying your Cognitive Superpower—the way your system is designed to perceive, receive and recognize information. 🗝️

Rather than you becoming dependent on your chart, I’m going to teach you how to use the chart to become more dependent on YOU and your signals: Your body. Your perception. Your inner knowing.

This is the deeper conversation behind my Intuition Manifesto and my signature Intuition Blueprint sessions: using Human Design not to let another authority tell you who you are, but to help you remember how to recognize & trust yourself.

If Human Design has fascinated but overwhelmed you in the past. or you’re ready to understand the intuitive gifts that have been operating inside you all along, come learn with me.

I cannot WAIT to open this conversation together! The lineup of speakers & presentations at this conference is brilliant. ✨

Register through the link on the Many Women, Many Stories page. I’d love to see you there! @manywomenmanystoriestriad
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I have a thing for odd little staircases… and the I have a thing for odd little staircases… and the minds that dream them up. 😉

Jule Körner, you fascinating human.

I once officiated a wedding in the Folly’s theatre room on April Fools’ Day. Of course I did. ;)

Every time I wander through Körner’s Folly, I find another detail that makes me pause, smile, and wonder what was moving through his imagination.

To me, Jule was the original steampunk before there was a name for it. His home feels like an esoteric masterpiece, where art, sacred geometry, theatre and a wonderfully unconventional imagination all get to live together.

I feel a deep kinship with that kind of creator.

And now that we’ve built our own home on what was once Kerner family farmland, my connection to this place feels even more woven into my life. Land, home, imagination, ancestry… threads that keep finding each other. 🧬 

Some places feel familiar in ways I can’t quite explain. This home, and the person who dreamed it into being, feel connected to me across timelines.

So where better to gather for a celebration of memory, love, and the mysteries between worlds?

On November 1, we’re returning to the Folly for what we’ve decided will be our little annual Día de los Muertos tradition. 🌹

Last year, we gathered to watch The Last Ecstatic Days. This year, my friend Christine Rucker will share a private screening of her film Sisterhoodship before it heads to film festivals.

Two heart-centered projects. One special night.🌹

The Rose Center and Christine’s film come together in a celebration of community with cacao, rose petal tea, ceremony, remembrance, and stories that bring us closer.

For those joining us: make a little more of your afternoon and tour the Folly before the house closes at 4. Give yourself time to notice the curious corners and follow your own fascination before our gathering begins.

And yes, a little steampunk-inspired attire would feel right at home. 🎩✨

I have a feeling Jule would appreciate what we’re dreaming up. #steampunkstyle #independentfilm #deathdoulacollective #diademuertos☠️ #kernersville
FLOURISH. 🌸 That’s what came through my hands aft FLOURISH. 🌸

That’s what came through my hands after the music moved through my body.

At Many Women, Many Stories, I experienced Chakradance™ with the beautiful Heather E. Ayers (on FB). I was meeting her for the first time but she felt like someone I have always known. 

And there was a sixteen-year full circle moment tucked inside that room! 

In 2010, I co-taught “A Sensory Journey Through the Chakras,” weaving movement, sound, color, gemstones and essential oils into guided #chakrameditation 

As dance became part of our exploration, I thought, “Chakra dance! What a wonderful name.”
A little Google search revealed an existing modality and certification program based in Australia. I respected the name, set it aside and continued creating in my own way.

Sixteen years later, I finally got to experience it.
The music composed for the journey through each chakra was brilliant. Heather held us so beautifully. With my eyes covered, I felt that familiar freedom I love in ecstatic and trance dance: less attention on how I look, more room to feel the music in my body. 

Afterward, we were given colored chalk and paper to let the experience take shape.

Flowers. Spirals, Reaching, Growing. 🌀🌱

And here’s a teaching I hadn’t expected:
Where might my judgments about business be getting in the way of the flourishing I say I want?

As healing arts practitioners, we can pour ourselves into our gifts while feeling resistance toward naming them, building a “business” around them or claiming what we’ve created as our own intellectual property. It’s definitely a balancing act. 

Experiencing this lovingly developed practice softened something in me. I could feel the care, creativity and work behind it AND appreciate the structure that helped it reach this room, this facilitator, this moment. The trademark had held the integrity! 

Our gifts deserve thoughtful tending. So do the people who bring them into the world.

Thank you, Heather @youaredivinelife for creating such a beautiful space to move, remember and receive.

Go experience ChakraDance!
And perhaps ask yourself:

What am I ready to give permission to FLOURISH? 🌿
10/10 carried the energy of collaboration, aligned 10/10 carried the energy of collaboration, aligned community, and heart-centered leadership. 

After an entire career of speaking at health fairs, expos & symposiums, I thought I was finished with conferences. I just don’t feel the pull to do that anymore.

But 10/10 felt different. About 50 women gathered at the historic Brookstown Inn in Winston-Salem for the @manywomenmanystoriestriad conference: Innovators, Trailblazers & Matriarchs in full effect! 

Beautiful #storytellers brought out the #medicinewoman wisdom in each participant. It was such a powerful & sweet experience. 

Hearing these women’s stories of triumph over adversity, finding their way, and bringing new ideas into the world made my heart hopeful. 

And then there was my little assignment: condense teaching Human Design into 45 minutes. 😂

My prayer before speaking was simple: God, distill this down to only the words that matter. Help me ignite playful curiosity. Let this be a fun & expansive doorway into the sacred mathematics of the universe.🪐🚪

I once heard someone say, “Numbers are the language of God”. That resonates deeply because I love studying rhythms & cycles of the planets & nature. 

The I Ching, Mayan calendars, Medicine wheels, Yuga cycles, Human Design, and Gene Keys come from different traditions, but they are similar structures used to measure naturally occurring cycles in our cosmos. 

My hope was that everyone would leave feeling the beauty of their own piece of the puzzle and have more compassion for people whose intuitive gifts work differently.

We all have something to bring. 🧩

This gathering reminded me that I have so much more to share about the evolving approaches to Human Design, especially during what I experience as the crumbling of an old world and the emergence of a new one.

I’m planning a FREE Q&A session about the alternative 13-planet approach I’ve been studying: What happens when an additional planetary influence is included in the bodygraph chart, and what that might mean for us individually & collectively.

Bring your questions and your playful curiosity. You don’t need to know anything about #humandesign to join on Friday, 11/13 at 4pm, EST. 💗
I still have stories to tell you about Scotland. 😉 I still have stories to tell you about Scotland. 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

These stories keep asking to be woven together because I feel something in #storymedicine that belongs to all of us: the ancient remembering, the #ancestralhealing & being drawn to places we feel called to before we understand why.

 I haven’t even told you about Peebles yet! 

The Queen Mom’s ancestry research led us to this little town in Scotland. That name already held meaning for me: our Serpent Mound retreat groups had stayed together in Peebles, Ohio twice last year. Now here we were, following my mother’s ancestral thread to Peebles, Scotland.

Getting there took us well out of our way. At one point, my brother asked Mom, “Are you sure it’s worth going this far just to see this little town?”

Oh, it was worth it. 🥹

We found Neidpath Castle overlooking the River Tweed. We ate wonderful food and met beautiful people at the Neidpath Inn. 

And around Neidpath Castle, the plants spoke to me more than anywhere on our Scotland journey. Rowan was blooming everywhere and Wild Rose Hips & elderberry adorned the castle. 

Best part of all? We got to witness our mother arrive in a place she had first discovered through names & records. And now there she was, connecting to the sacred ground, feeling it all! 🧬

There’s something so tender about witnessing someone you love follow a thread through generations and finally drop into all the stories that location holds for her lineage. 🧵

Then came another unexpected turn for us. 

I shared a little “hello from Peebles” message with the beautiful souls who joined me for our 2 Serpent Mound retreats. 

And now… it looks like a Scotland pilgrimage/reunion is forming! 

From Peebles, Ohio, to Peebles, Scotland! A new retreat with those who have already shared sacred ground & ceremony together.

I’m still taking that part in and processing the magnitude of it. 

Mom wanted to see where her ancestors lived so we took the long drive. Peebles is already calling us back. 

What thread is calling you to follow it, even if you don’t yet know where it leads? 🧶

Stay playful and curious without expectations. You jus
What if learning your Human Design could open up a What if learning your Human Design could open up a whole new way of working with your clients? ✨

I’m teaching about this at the Many Women, Many Stories conference on October 9th & 10th. 

I’ll be introducing my own unique approach to Human Design: a revolutionary system that reaches beyond the traditional 12-planet template and explores what this work can look like through the Age of Aquarius lens.

My signature method brings intuition, energy work and lived experience into the learning process, so you can begin to feel how your design expresses itself in everyday life.

If you’re a coach, consultant or energy healing practitioner, come explore how this perspective could enrich your sessions and help your clients recognize and trust their own intuitive gifts.

And if you’re simply curious about your own energy blueprint, that is perfect! 💛

Registration is open through October 8. Come with playful curiosity. I’d love to share this part of my work with you!

#ManyWomenManyStories #WisdomThroughStories #humandesign #trustyourintuition #intuitivedevelopment
Before the Scotland trip. I asked Mom to braid my Before the Scotland trip. I asked Mom to braid my hair again like she did when I was a girl. 

When I was young, Mom would braid my clean, wet hair before bed. Then I would wake up, loosen the braids and have easy waves for school, no styling necessary. 

At first, it was a practical request for the trip. We were traveling quickly, waking early and fitting lifetimes of experience into every day. Braiding my wet hair at night meant one less thing to manage in the morning.
But then something else happened, something incredibly sweet and special. 

There I was, a grown woman sitting in front of my mother on the floor while her familiar hands braided my hair exactly as they had when I was a child.
This became one of the sweetest nightly rituals of our pilgrimage. 

Across many cultures and eras, hair has carried special meaning: identity, ancestry, belonging, status, devotion and spiritual protection. Braiding has also been a communal act of hands weaving hair while stories & teachings are shared with love, passing from one generation to another.🥹

And then I noticed something totally unexpected! 
I slept differently with my hair braided.

My rest felt deeper. My energy felt more contained. It made me wonder about the old teachings that regard hair as an energetic antenna and whether gathering the hair before sleep creates a kind of energetic boundary while we travel through dreams?!

So what if hair braiding brings the energy back toward the body? What if our ancestors knew it was so much more? 

What if three strands woven together create a gentle message of coherence for body, mind and spirit… past, present and future… mother, daughter & ancestors?

What if my mom was doing more than braiding my hair? 
What if she was helping me contain my energy during time in the astral plane? 
Do you experience your hair as part of your energetic sensitivity?
Have you ever noticed a difference in your sleep, dreams or nervous system when your hair is braided, covered or gently bound at night?

And did someone you love ever braid your hair? 
I would love to hear about the #ancestralwisdom & memories living in your strands. 🧬🪢
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WHEN THE STONES CALL YOU BACK SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WHEN THE STONES CALL YOU BACK 🌀🪨

Clava Cairns is an ancient ceremonial site outside Inverness, where cairns and standing stones have remained part of the landscape for 4,000 years or more. 

This is the ancient sacred site often associated with Craigh na Dun, the fictional stone circle in Outlander, but these are not movie props. 
These are the real deal ancient stones! 

The moment I entered that space, I felt my voice lower and a hush of respect wash over me, just like I was entering a temple, the exact same way I always feel at Serpent Mound.

These gorgeous stones are record keepers, holding the imprint of the land, the elements and the generations of human beings who have gathered around them. They have witnessed prayers, grief, ceremony, death & devotion for thousands of years. 

There is knowledge here that cannot be learned by reading a plaque.

There is wisdom here that is transferred directly: stone to body, land to nervous system, presence to presence. And the same goes for the ancient elder trees who live here, too. 

Standing among the stones at Clava Cairns felt like entering a living library older than language.🧬

And now, the stones are calling us back! 

When I shared my experience with the groups who traveled with me on two retreats to Serpent Mound in Ohio, they simply said:
“Take us there.”

And just like that, an entire Scotland #sacredsites pilgrimage/retreat began forming.

I had no intention of leading a group to Scotland next year. But then again, I didn’t originally intend to lead two retreats to Serpent Mound either.

Sometimes these experiences aren’t created through planning.
Retreats & workshops create themselves when the timing is right.
The land calls and the people who are meant to go hear it. 
Then, a container begins forming around that collective energy.🌀

So next year, I will return to #clavacairns with a group of people who already understand that ancient earthworks and stones are not remnants of a dead past.

These are living places of relationship & they are still speaking, still teaching, very much alive. 
And when we become quiet enough, humble enough and present…
we can still learn from them.
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WATER MAGIC & FAIRY CHASING O SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WATER MAGIC & FAIRY CHASING ON THE ISLE OF SKYE 🧚‍♀️💦

On the Isle of Skye, beneath the historic Old Sligachan Bridge, runs a river with an irresistible fairy legend.

The story says that if you kneel beside the river and submerge your face in its freezing water, the local faeries may bless you with eternal beauty and youth. 

Well, obviously, I had to do it. 😂

So I knelt at the edge of the Sligachan River and let the waters of Skye have their way with me.
As we journeyed to the Fairy Pools later, Mom had a realization that may have been even more magical than the fairy legend itself.

She looked at those crystalline pools flowing down from the mountains and suddenly exclaimed:
“I have my own fairy pools in North Carolina!”
And she does.

The mountain river running beside her home tumbles over ancient stones, gathers in clear little pools and carries living medicine through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Travel can be a form of energy cultivation. It can awaken us, expand our consciousness and return fragmented parts of ourselves to us.

But travel can also become a distraction if we are always searching somewhere else for the beauty, healing or enchantment we have not yet learned to recognize where we already live.

Sometimes a faraway land activates something ancient within us.
And sometimes the greatest gift of a pilgrimage is that it teaches us how well-resourced we already are. 

I was activated with charged land, pure air and places where the natural world is still honored as alive. I came home with a renewed commitment to the waters of North Carolina. It’s an honor to listen to my own bodies of water & work with them, becoming a better steward of the land beneath my feet at home. 

The magic is in Scotland, 
The magic is in North Carolina. 
The enchantment of nature is wherever you live on this gorgeous planet. Our job is to enhance beauty & magic wherever we are. 

Perhaps we travel to sacred places not because the sacred is absent from our own lives, but because sometimes we need another landscape to teach us about what we already have. 

#WaterStewardship #SacredWater #WaterIsLife #NatureAsMedicine #isleofskye
EQUINOX: A RETURN TO BALANCE 🌗 Today, the light a EQUINOX: A RETURN TO BALANCE 🌗

Today, the light and darkness meet one another in balance. ☯️

And maybe there’s nothing we need to do about that-no elaborate ritual, no pressure to create a profound experience or make the day mean something.

Perhaps we simply need to breathe into the balance that nature is giving us. ⚖️

We live in a culture that celebrates action and forward motion. But nature never asks the earth to remain in perpetual bloom or production. 

There is a time to grow, 
A time to harvest, 
A time to release, 
And a time to rest, just like King Solomon said. 

For years, I wondered why I could teach people about the importance of equinoxes and solstices and when the next one arrived, so many had already forgotten.

Then I realized:
We have been living in a kind of cultural exile from nature.

Many of us were never taught to notice the changing light or the intelligence within the cycles of the earth. We learned to organize our lives by clocks, fake calendars and forced productivity, not nature’s rhythms.

But the seasons move through us whether we acknowledge them or not.
The light & darkness affects us, 
The planets affect us, 
The cycles & seasons all have an influence, belief system not required.
And that is something beautiful we all share.

Whatever our background or beliefs, we live beneath the same sky, held by the same earth and moving through the same cycles of light and darkness.

The good news is that I believe we are finding our way out of separation into connection with nature. 

We are remembering how to watch the sky & listen to the land.
We’re reclaiming how to honor our bodies when they ask for movement and when they ask for rest.
We are re-establishing how to work with nature’s rhythms instead of struggling against them.

When we return to nature, we come home to ourselves. 

So today, you don’t need to accomplish anything for the equinox.
Just pause & take a breath.

Notice where you have been giving more than receiving.
Where action needs to be balanced with rest.
Where you might welcome both the light and the dark without forcing or trying. The gift of the #equinox is yours for the taking. 

#autumnequinox 🌗 #happyequinox
🍂 WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SCOTLAND S 🍂 WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SCOTLAND STORY TIME…

…for two vimportant occasions that happen on the same day: 
The Autumn Equinox and the birthday of my beloved Steve! 

The Equinox is one of the sacred balancing moments of the year-a moment when light and darkness meet as equals before the wheel of the seasons turns once again. ☯️

And then there is Steve, technically a Virgo, but born right on the cusp between Virgo and Libra, which makes perfect sense to anyone who knows him well. He carries the hardworking, practical, organized nature of Virgo but also the Libra love of beauty, harmony, partnership. ⚖️

I whisked the big guy away away for a little rest and restoration at Grandover Spa before he celebrates 63! 🥳 It was such a great reset & recharge for both of us. 

By the way I have absolutely no idea why there is an enormous picture of Pilot Mountain beside the spa pool…🤣

…but if you can’t take the man to Pilot Mountain, bring Pilot Mountain to the man in the hot tub. 

Happy birthday to the one I love and happy #autumnequinox to everyone in the northern hemisphere. May we honor both the light and the darkness, the productive work and the rest, the giving and the receiving. 

Scotland story medicine will resume shortly. 😉
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY THREE Isle of Skye 🧜‍♀️ a SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY THREE
Isle of Skye 🧜‍♀️ and Isle of Raasay 🌊

“Pull the car over right now! Pull the car over!”

My dad thought something was wrong, so he stopped immediately. But nothing was wrong. Mom had read about Skye long before she ever visited Scotland. On their first arrival, she simply had to get out and dance as soon as her feet touched the ground.

So, of course, Mom, Angie and I had to do that again! 💃🏻

We breathed the salty air, ate wonderful food and took in waterscapes almost too gorgeous to be true.

Then Skye gave us another gift: the accommodations we wanted were fully booked.

Thinking beyond our original plan led us to the magical Isle of Raasay. Another apparent inconvenience was rearranging the journey on our behalf.

We took the ferry over and there were dolphins.
Dolphins! In Scotland! 🐬

We stayed at the Isle of Raasay Distillery. Beautiful accommodations, extraordinary food and a behind-the-scenes tour. What a class act. 

Now, true confession…
I want to be in the cool, fancy whisky club. 🥃 I’m just not friends with whisky! 😂
I tried the tastings. I really tried. 
But my body gave me a very clear, intuitive NO.

I may not love the finished potion, but I loved witnessing the alchemy.

Barley, water, yeast, copper vats, oak barrels = magic! 🧪

Those enormous copper stills! You all know I’m straight up obsessed with copper, right?!? The care given to the ingredients and the island’s structured water all spoke to the water-stewardship lessons unfolding throughout this pilgrimage.

I didn’t need to enjoy the whisky to appreciate the artistry & alchemy. 

👑 Skye gave us my mother’s dance.
🐑 Raasay gave us dolphins, sheep, plant medicine and copper vessels. 

Another fully booked “no” guided us somewhere we didn’t know we needed to be.

Sometimes the unexpected island is the surprise waiting for you all along. ✨

#IsleOfSkye #IsleOfRaasay #ScotlandPilgrimage #WaterStewardship #SacredTravel
My parents loved Glencoe so much that they came ho My parents loved Glencoe so much that they came home to North Carolina and named their farm after it. 

We spent our first two nights in the Highlands at the Isles of Glencoe. Two nights at @islesofglencoe were not nearly enough but then again, nowhere we stayed was long enough.

When we entered our hotel room and opened the door, the water was directly accessible outside our room. 

And standing there to welcome us were a blue heron and a white crane! Whaaaat?!? 

I found a little spot on a hiking trail and began practicing #qigong moving through blue heron and white crane inspired movements with the actual birds right there with me for reference. 

It felt like Scotland was speaking a language my body already knew.

That moment opened an unexpected opportunity for me. I already knew this would be an ancestral pilgrimage. I knew I would be listening to the land. What I hadn’t understood was how much this journey would teach me about the consciousness of water. 

Everywhere we stayed, we found ourselves in direct relationship with a sacred body of💧water: each loch, river or pool had its own codes, intelligence and healing power. 

The water at Glencoe was the first to speak. The sacred water wasn’t simply gorgeous scenery. It was my teacher.

Scotland’s water felt powerful, spiritually charged and deeply communicative. The living crystal codes 💠 awakened something in me that I’m still learning about now that I’m home.

There is so much more I want to share about what the waters of Scotland taught me. Those teachings will probably become their own podcast episodes later. 

For now, I simply want to honor the place where the doorway first opened and the two winged allies were there to welcome us.

Glencoe, I understand why my parents love you and now so do I. 🪽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
My new flower friend is Fireweed, btw. 

#GlencoeScotland #ScotlandPilgrimage #WaterStewardship SacredWater
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY TWO Harry Potter Jacobite SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY TWO
Harry Potter Jacobite Steam Train 🚂 

I thought this day would be about riding the Harry Potter steam train but it became so much more. 

For months, I checked and checked for first-class tickets on the Jacobite, but they remained completely sold out. Mom had dreamed of experiencing it this way, and I had quietly held onto the hope that somehow we might be able to upgrade our tickets for the full effect: tea, shortbread and all! 🫖

On the morning of our journey, I walked up to the guard on the platform and asked one more time if we could upgrade our tickets. 

And guess what? 🪄
There were exactly two first-class seats available.

Angie and Trevor immediately said, “Take them. Put Queen Mom in first class. We’ll be perfectly happy with the view from back here.”

And just like that, we got to surprise her. 🥹

The experience was more beautiful than I could have imagined. The carriages were so “steampunk” style, which I absolutely love. The sound and rhythm of the working steam engine, the mountains and lochs unfolding beyond our windows, and crowds of people gathered along the hillsides just to watch the train pass & wave to us. It was so fun! 

But beneath the Harry Potter magic lives an even older story. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This route carries you through Glenfinnan, where Prince Charlie raised his standard in 1745 and the Highland clans gathered for the final Jacobite Rising. We weren’t simply traveling through a landscape where Harry Potter was filmed. She was moving through the history of Scotland and the ancestral land that had been calling her home.

We passed the eight locks of Neptune’s Staircase,💧traveled from Fort William to the seaside village of Mallaig, shared a beautiful meal by the water, and then climbed aboard for the journey back where we started. 

The Jacobite/Harry Potter train was one of the experiences Mom wanted the most and at the very last moment, two seats were waiting for us. 🧙

Sometimes sold out simply means trust your intuition and ask one more time. 😉

#HarryPotterScotland #ScotlandPilgrimage #TrustYourIntuition 
#steampunkstyle 
#AncestralSites
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE, CONTINUED My parents SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE, CONTINUED
My parents brought “hippie cows” to NC! 

After Scotland welcomed Mom home with a full rainbow over Loch Lomond, we stopped for our first little cup of coffee at a dairy farm. Even through we saw so many Starbucks on the trip, I was only interested the real deal family farms and local coffee shops. 

And there they were, like a reunion with old friends: Scottish Highland cattle! ❤️
Those shaggy, long-haired creatures people in NC used to call our “hippie cows” or “teddy bear cows” inspired my veganism for much of my life. 

Seeing those adorable cows again opened an unexpected doorway into our family history and into a much larger story I haven’t told yet.

My dad began as a poor janitor cleaning floors at night. At 27, he invented the first commercially available propane-powered floor machine. His invention became an extraordinary American success story. 

He was named North Carolina Small Businessman of the Year, appeared in Inc. magazine, and built one of the country’s fastest-growing privately held companies.

He and Mom had fallen in love with Scotland, so they created Glencoe Highland Farms along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Sparta, North Carolina. Dad found a way to bring Scottish Highland cattle into our mountains, where practically no one had ever seen anything like them.

I have good reason to believe they may have been among the very first Highland cattle in North Carolina, possibly even the first, and I’m now following the old records to discover exactly where Dad found them and how he got them there.

More than three decades later after falling in love with those sweet gentle souls, there they were again on our first day in Scotland. 🐮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The mural at the end of this reel is the creation of @lacywilsonart 
My family member just “happened” to be hiking out west and discovered this mural in the middle of nowhere. I find the artist’s last name to be a beautiful synchronicity. ❤️
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE The Rainbow at Loch L SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE
The Rainbow at Loch Lomond 🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I’m home from the most incredible trip of my life, and I’ve decided to share each day with you, one sacred site and precious moment at a time. 

This pilgrimage was a gift from our mother to Trevor, his wife Angie and me. She said giving us this trip was her dream come true. 

During the first part of our journey, we returned Mom to places where she and Dad had made beautiful memories together when he was alive, places my brother Trevor and I had never experienced with them. We got to walk into those memories with her, hear the stories again and witness the sweetness of who they had been together.

Then, during the second part of our trip, we carried her into new experiences, new places she had always dreamed of seeing. 

It was a trip of memory and discovery.

This adventure was both a completion and a beginning that will take a long time to process & integrate. 

Our very first stop, fresh off the plane, was the water of Loch Lomond.

We walked down to the water’s edge beneath a gorgeous Scottish sky. There was no rainbow when we arrived and then, almost instantly, it appeared.

A complete rainbow presented to us, its entire arc stretching across the sky and touching the landscape on both sides.

It felt as though Scotland herself had been waiting for my mother.

Welcome home, Linda.

We stood there at the edge of that ancient water, witnessing a blessing we could never have arranged, scheduled or manufactured.

The land knew she had returned.

And that was how our pilgrimage began.

I cry every time I think about it.

We didn’t know then that every single day would somehow become even more magical, but Scotland had already given us her promise. 🌈
You were never meant to search for your intuition. You were never meant to search for your intuition.
You were born with it.

The magic you’re looking for isn’t somewhere outside of you. It lives in your awareness, your imagination, your choices, your words, and the way you create meaning from every moment.

You are not here to escape reality.
You are here to participate in creating it.

Your thoughts shape your stories.
Your attention shapes your experience.
Your intention shapes the way you move through the world.

The real magic is remembering who you have always been. ✨

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Comment “MANIFESTO” below and I’ll send you the link to grab your copy.

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Your intuition doesn’t grow by controlling nature. Your intuition doesn’t grow by controlling nature.
It grows by learning to listen.

For so long, we’ve been taught to ask:

“What can nature give me?”
“What can I gain?”
“How can I use this?”

But a deeper relationship begins with a different question:

“Who are you?”

When we slow down and truly listen, everything begins to shift.
Flowers become teachers. Trees become elders. Nature becomes a mirror for our own wisdom.

Intuition isn’t something you force.
It’s something you remember.

✨ You were born for this.

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What if Human Design didn’t have to be so… complic What if Human Design didn’t have to be so… complicated? 

If you’ve ever opened your chart, seen all the lines, numbers, gates, channels, arrows and colors, and thought…

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS?! 😂
You’re not alone. 

Come sit with me at Many Women, Many Stories, October 9–10 and I’ll show you how to use your own treasure map.🤓

I’ll be teaching Human Design through a more 5D, Age of Aquarius, Divine Feminine approach. It will be less memorizing a complex system, more learning to recognize and trust the unique intelligence already living inside you.

Your #humandesign bodygraph contains clues to your intuitive superpowers: the complex ways your body, senses and perception receive information before your logical mind can explain it.

Human Design is an extraordinary map for recognizing those gifts, but the map was never meant to become more important than the territory.

YOU are the territory, the ecosystem. 

At the conference, I’ll help you begin identifying your Cognitive Superpower—the way your system is designed to perceive, receive and recognize information. 🗝️

Rather than you becoming dependent on your chart, I’m going to teach you how to use the chart to become more dependent on YOU and your signals: Your body. Your perception. Your inner knowing.

This is the deeper conversation behind my Intuition Manifesto and my signature Intuition Blueprint sessions: using Human Design not to let another authority tell you who you are, but to help you remember how to recognize & trust yourself.

If Human Design has fascinated but overwhelmed you in the past. or you’re ready to understand the intuitive gifts that have been operating inside you all along, come learn with me.

I cannot WAIT to open this conversation together! The lineup of speakers & presentations at this conference is brilliant. ✨

Register through the link on the Many Women, Many Stories page. I’d love to see you there! @manywomenmanystoriestriad
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I have a thing for odd little staircases… and the I have a thing for odd little staircases… and the minds that dream them up. 😉

Jule Körner, you fascinating human.

I once officiated a wedding in the Folly’s theatre room on April Fools’ Day. Of course I did. ;)

Every time I wander through Körner’s Folly, I find another detail that makes me pause, smile, and wonder what was moving through his imagination.

To me, Jule was the original steampunk before there was a name for it. His home feels like an esoteric masterpiece, where art, sacred geometry, theatre and a wonderfully unconventional imagination all get to live together.

I feel a deep kinship with that kind of creator.

And now that we’ve built our own home on what was once Kerner family farmland, my connection to this place feels even more woven into my life. Land, home, imagination, ancestry… threads that keep finding each other. 🧬 

Some places feel familiar in ways I can’t quite explain. This home, and the person who dreamed it into being, feel connected to me across timelines.

So where better to gather for a celebration of memory, love, and the mysteries between worlds?

On November 1, we’re returning to the Folly for what we’ve decided will be our little annual Día de los Muertos tradition. 🌹

Last year, we gathered to watch The Last Ecstatic Days. This year, my friend Christine Rucker will share a private screening of her film Sisterhoodship before it heads to film festivals.

Two heart-centered projects. One special night.🌹

The Rose Center and Christine’s film come together in a celebration of community with cacao, rose petal tea, ceremony, remembrance, and stories that bring us closer.

For those joining us: make a little more of your afternoon and tour the Folly before the house closes at 4. Give yourself time to notice the curious corners and follow your own fascination before our gathering begins.

And yes, a little steampunk-inspired attire would feel right at home. 🎩✨

I have a feeling Jule would appreciate what we’re dreaming up. #steampunkstyle #independentfilm #deathdoulacollective #diademuertos☠️ #kernersville
FLOURISH. 🌸 That’s what came through my hands aft FLOURISH. 🌸

That’s what came through my hands after the music moved through my body.

At Many Women, Many Stories, I experienced Chakradance™ with the beautiful Heather E. Ayers (on FB). I was meeting her for the first time but she felt like someone I have always known. 

And there was a sixteen-year full circle moment tucked inside that room! 

In 2010, I co-taught “A Sensory Journey Through the Chakras,” weaving movement, sound, color, gemstones and essential oils into guided #chakrameditation 

As dance became part of our exploration, I thought, “Chakra dance! What a wonderful name.”
A little Google search revealed an existing modality and certification program based in Australia. I respected the name, set it aside and continued creating in my own way.

Sixteen years later, I finally got to experience it.
The music composed for the journey through each chakra was brilliant. Heather held us so beautifully. With my eyes covered, I felt that familiar freedom I love in ecstatic and trance dance: less attention on how I look, more room to feel the music in my body. 

Afterward, we were given colored chalk and paper to let the experience take shape.

Flowers. Spirals, Reaching, Growing. 🌀🌱

And here’s a teaching I hadn’t expected:
Where might my judgments about business be getting in the way of the flourishing I say I want?

As healing arts practitioners, we can pour ourselves into our gifts while feeling resistance toward naming them, building a “business” around them or claiming what we’ve created as our own intellectual property. It’s definitely a balancing act. 

Experiencing this lovingly developed practice softened something in me. I could feel the care, creativity and work behind it AND appreciate the structure that helped it reach this room, this facilitator, this moment. The trademark had held the integrity! 

Our gifts deserve thoughtful tending. So do the people who bring them into the world.

Thank you, Heather @youaredivinelife for creating such a beautiful space to move, remember and receive.

Go experience ChakraDance!
And perhaps ask yourself:

What am I ready to give permission to FLOURISH? 🌿
10/10 carried the energy of collaboration, aligned 10/10 carried the energy of collaboration, aligned community, and heart-centered leadership. 

After an entire career of speaking at health fairs, expos & symposiums, I thought I was finished with conferences. I just don’t feel the pull to do that anymore.

But 10/10 felt different. About 50 women gathered at the historic Brookstown Inn in Winston-Salem for the @manywomenmanystoriestriad conference: Innovators, Trailblazers & Matriarchs in full effect! 

Beautiful #storytellers brought out the #medicinewoman wisdom in each participant. It was such a powerful & sweet experience. 

Hearing these women’s stories of triumph over adversity, finding their way, and bringing new ideas into the world made my heart hopeful. 

And then there was my little assignment: condense teaching Human Design into 45 minutes. 😂

My prayer before speaking was simple: God, distill this down to only the words that matter. Help me ignite playful curiosity. Let this be a fun & expansive doorway into the sacred mathematics of the universe.🪐🚪

I once heard someone say, “Numbers are the language of God”. That resonates deeply because I love studying rhythms & cycles of the planets & nature. 

The I Ching, Mayan calendars, Medicine wheels, Yuga cycles, Human Design, and Gene Keys come from different traditions, but they are similar structures used to measure naturally occurring cycles in our cosmos. 

My hope was that everyone would leave feeling the beauty of their own piece of the puzzle and have more compassion for people whose intuitive gifts work differently.

We all have something to bring. 🧩

This gathering reminded me that I have so much more to share about the evolving approaches to Human Design, especially during what I experience as the crumbling of an old world and the emergence of a new one.

I’m planning a FREE Q&A session about the alternative 13-planet approach I’ve been studying: What happens when an additional planetary influence is included in the bodygraph chart, and what that might mean for us individually & collectively.

Bring your questions and your playful curiosity. You don’t need to know anything about #humandesign to join on Friday, 11/13 at 4pm, EST. 💗
I still have stories to tell you about Scotland. 😉 I still have stories to tell you about Scotland. 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

These stories keep asking to be woven together because I feel something in #storymedicine that belongs to all of us: the ancient remembering, the #ancestralhealing & being drawn to places we feel called to before we understand why.

 I haven’t even told you about Peebles yet! 

The Queen Mom’s ancestry research led us to this little town in Scotland. That name already held meaning for me: our Serpent Mound retreat groups had stayed together in Peebles, Ohio twice last year. Now here we were, following my mother’s ancestral thread to Peebles, Scotland.

Getting there took us well out of our way. At one point, my brother asked Mom, “Are you sure it’s worth going this far just to see this little town?”

Oh, it was worth it. 🥹

We found Neidpath Castle overlooking the River Tweed. We ate wonderful food and met beautiful people at the Neidpath Inn. 

And around Neidpath Castle, the plants spoke to me more than anywhere on our Scotland journey. Rowan was blooming everywhere and Wild Rose Hips & elderberry adorned the castle. 

Best part of all? We got to witness our mother arrive in a place she had first discovered through names & records. And now there she was, connecting to the sacred ground, feeling it all! 🧬

There’s something so tender about witnessing someone you love follow a thread through generations and finally drop into all the stories that location holds for her lineage. 🧵

Then came another unexpected turn for us. 

I shared a little “hello from Peebles” message with the beautiful souls who joined me for our 2 Serpent Mound retreats. 

And now… it looks like a Scotland pilgrimage/reunion is forming! 

From Peebles, Ohio, to Peebles, Scotland! A new retreat with those who have already shared sacred ground & ceremony together.

I’m still taking that part in and processing the magnitude of it. 

Mom wanted to see where her ancestors lived so we took the long drive. Peebles is already calling us back. 

What thread is calling you to follow it, even if you don’t yet know where it leads? 🧶

Stay playful and curious without expectations. You jus
What if learning your Human Design could open up a What if learning your Human Design could open up a whole new way of working with your clients? ✨

I’m teaching about this at the Many Women, Many Stories conference on October 9th & 10th. 

I’ll be introducing my own unique approach to Human Design: a revolutionary system that reaches beyond the traditional 12-planet template and explores what this work can look like through the Age of Aquarius lens.

My signature method brings intuition, energy work and lived experience into the learning process, so you can begin to feel how your design expresses itself in everyday life.

If you’re a coach, consultant or energy healing practitioner, come explore how this perspective could enrich your sessions and help your clients recognize and trust their own intuitive gifts.

And if you’re simply curious about your own energy blueprint, that is perfect! 💛

Registration is open through October 8. Come with playful curiosity. I’d love to share this part of my work with you!

#ManyWomenManyStories #WisdomThroughStories #humandesign #trustyourintuition #intuitivedevelopment
Before the Scotland trip. I asked Mom to braid my Before the Scotland trip. I asked Mom to braid my hair again like she did when I was a girl. 

When I was young, Mom would braid my clean, wet hair before bed. Then I would wake up, loosen the braids and have easy waves for school, no styling necessary. 

At first, it was a practical request for the trip. We were traveling quickly, waking early and fitting lifetimes of experience into every day. Braiding my wet hair at night meant one less thing to manage in the morning.
But then something else happened, something incredibly sweet and special. 

There I was, a grown woman sitting in front of my mother on the floor while her familiar hands braided my hair exactly as they had when I was a child.
This became one of the sweetest nightly rituals of our pilgrimage. 

Across many cultures and eras, hair has carried special meaning: identity, ancestry, belonging, status, devotion and spiritual protection. Braiding has also been a communal act of hands weaving hair while stories & teachings are shared with love, passing from one generation to another.🥹

And then I noticed something totally unexpected! 
I slept differently with my hair braided.

My rest felt deeper. My energy felt more contained. It made me wonder about the old teachings that regard hair as an energetic antenna and whether gathering the hair before sleep creates a kind of energetic boundary while we travel through dreams?!

So what if hair braiding brings the energy back toward the body? What if our ancestors knew it was so much more? 

What if three strands woven together create a gentle message of coherence for body, mind and spirit… past, present and future… mother, daughter & ancestors?

What if my mom was doing more than braiding my hair? 
What if she was helping me contain my energy during time in the astral plane? 
Do you experience your hair as part of your energetic sensitivity?
Have you ever noticed a difference in your sleep, dreams or nervous system when your hair is braided, covered or gently bound at night?

And did someone you love ever braid your hair? 
I would love to hear about the #ancestralwisdom & memories living in your strands. 🧬🪢
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WHEN THE STONES CALL YOU BACK SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WHEN THE STONES CALL YOU BACK 🌀🪨

Clava Cairns is an ancient ceremonial site outside Inverness, where cairns and standing stones have remained part of the landscape for 4,000 years or more. 

This is the ancient sacred site often associated with Craigh na Dun, the fictional stone circle in Outlander, but these are not movie props. 
These are the real deal ancient stones! 

The moment I entered that space, I felt my voice lower and a hush of respect wash over me, just like I was entering a temple, the exact same way I always feel at Serpent Mound.

These gorgeous stones are record keepers, holding the imprint of the land, the elements and the generations of human beings who have gathered around them. They have witnessed prayers, grief, ceremony, death & devotion for thousands of years. 

There is knowledge here that cannot be learned by reading a plaque.

There is wisdom here that is transferred directly: stone to body, land to nervous system, presence to presence. And the same goes for the ancient elder trees who live here, too. 

Standing among the stones at Clava Cairns felt like entering a living library older than language.🧬

And now, the stones are calling us back! 

When I shared my experience with the groups who traveled with me on two retreats to Serpent Mound in Ohio, they simply said:
“Take us there.”

And just like that, an entire Scotland #sacredsites pilgrimage/retreat began forming.

I had no intention of leading a group to Scotland next year. But then again, I didn’t originally intend to lead two retreats to Serpent Mound either.

Sometimes these experiences aren’t created through planning.
Retreats & workshops create themselves when the timing is right.
The land calls and the people who are meant to go hear it. 
Then, a container begins forming around that collective energy.🌀

So next year, I will return to #clavacairns with a group of people who already understand that ancient earthworks and stones are not remnants of a dead past.

These are living places of relationship & they are still speaking, still teaching, very much alive. 
And when we become quiet enough, humble enough and present…
we can still learn from them.
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WATER MAGIC & FAIRY CHASING O SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: WATER MAGIC & FAIRY CHASING ON THE ISLE OF SKYE 🧚‍♀️💦

On the Isle of Skye, beneath the historic Old Sligachan Bridge, runs a river with an irresistible fairy legend.

The story says that if you kneel beside the river and submerge your face in its freezing water, the local faeries may bless you with eternal beauty and youth. 

Well, obviously, I had to do it. 😂

So I knelt at the edge of the Sligachan River and let the waters of Skye have their way with me.
As we journeyed to the Fairy Pools later, Mom had a realization that may have been even more magical than the fairy legend itself.

She looked at those crystalline pools flowing down from the mountains and suddenly exclaimed:
“I have my own fairy pools in North Carolina!”
And she does.

The mountain river running beside her home tumbles over ancient stones, gathers in clear little pools and carries living medicine through the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Travel can be a form of energy cultivation. It can awaken us, expand our consciousness and return fragmented parts of ourselves to us.

But travel can also become a distraction if we are always searching somewhere else for the beauty, healing or enchantment we have not yet learned to recognize where we already live.

Sometimes a faraway land activates something ancient within us.
And sometimes the greatest gift of a pilgrimage is that it teaches us how well-resourced we already are. 

I was activated with charged land, pure air and places where the natural world is still honored as alive. I came home with a renewed commitment to the waters of North Carolina. It’s an honor to listen to my own bodies of water & work with them, becoming a better steward of the land beneath my feet at home. 

The magic is in Scotland, 
The magic is in North Carolina. 
The enchantment of nature is wherever you live on this gorgeous planet. Our job is to enhance beauty & magic wherever we are. 

Perhaps we travel to sacred places not because the sacred is absent from our own lives, but because sometimes we need another landscape to teach us about what we already have. 

#WaterStewardship #SacredWater #WaterIsLife #NatureAsMedicine #isleofskye
EQUINOX: A RETURN TO BALANCE 🌗 Today, the light a EQUINOX: A RETURN TO BALANCE 🌗

Today, the light and darkness meet one another in balance. ☯️

And maybe there’s nothing we need to do about that-no elaborate ritual, no pressure to create a profound experience or make the day mean something.

Perhaps we simply need to breathe into the balance that nature is giving us. ⚖️

We live in a culture that celebrates action and forward motion. But nature never asks the earth to remain in perpetual bloom or production. 

There is a time to grow, 
A time to harvest, 
A time to release, 
And a time to rest, just like King Solomon said. 

For years, I wondered why I could teach people about the importance of equinoxes and solstices and when the next one arrived, so many had already forgotten.

Then I realized:
We have been living in a kind of cultural exile from nature.

Many of us were never taught to notice the changing light or the intelligence within the cycles of the earth. We learned to organize our lives by clocks, fake calendars and forced productivity, not nature’s rhythms.

But the seasons move through us whether we acknowledge them or not.
The light & darkness affects us, 
The planets affect us, 
The cycles & seasons all have an influence, belief system not required.
And that is something beautiful we all share.

Whatever our background or beliefs, we live beneath the same sky, held by the same earth and moving through the same cycles of light and darkness.

The good news is that I believe we are finding our way out of separation into connection with nature. 

We are remembering how to watch the sky & listen to the land.
We’re reclaiming how to honor our bodies when they ask for movement and when they ask for rest.
We are re-establishing how to work with nature’s rhythms instead of struggling against them.

When we return to nature, we come home to ourselves. 

So today, you don’t need to accomplish anything for the equinox.
Just pause & take a breath.

Notice where you have been giving more than receiving.
Where action needs to be balanced with rest.
Where you might welcome both the light and the dark without forcing or trying. The gift of the #equinox is yours for the taking. 

#autumnequinox 🌗 #happyequinox
🍂 WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SCOTLAND S 🍂 WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SCOTLAND STORY TIME…

…for two vimportant occasions that happen on the same day: 
The Autumn Equinox and the birthday of my beloved Steve! 

The Equinox is one of the sacred balancing moments of the year-a moment when light and darkness meet as equals before the wheel of the seasons turns once again. ☯️

And then there is Steve, technically a Virgo, but born right on the cusp between Virgo and Libra, which makes perfect sense to anyone who knows him well. He carries the hardworking, practical, organized nature of Virgo but also the Libra love of beauty, harmony, partnership. ⚖️

I whisked the big guy away away for a little rest and restoration at Grandover Spa before he celebrates 63! 🥳 It was such a great reset & recharge for both of us. 

By the way I have absolutely no idea why there is an enormous picture of Pilot Mountain beside the spa pool…🤣

…but if you can’t take the man to Pilot Mountain, bring Pilot Mountain to the man in the hot tub. 

Happy birthday to the one I love and happy #autumnequinox to everyone in the northern hemisphere. May we honor both the light and the darkness, the productive work and the rest, the giving and the receiving. 

Scotland story medicine will resume shortly. 😉
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY THREE Isle of Skye 🧜‍♀️ a SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY THREE
Isle of Skye 🧜‍♀️ and Isle of Raasay 🌊

“Pull the car over right now! Pull the car over!”

My dad thought something was wrong, so he stopped immediately. But nothing was wrong. Mom had read about Skye long before she ever visited Scotland. On their first arrival, she simply had to get out and dance as soon as her feet touched the ground.

So, of course, Mom, Angie and I had to do that again! 💃🏻

We breathed the salty air, ate wonderful food and took in waterscapes almost too gorgeous to be true.

Then Skye gave us another gift: the accommodations we wanted were fully booked.

Thinking beyond our original plan led us to the magical Isle of Raasay. Another apparent inconvenience was rearranging the journey on our behalf.

We took the ferry over and there were dolphins.
Dolphins! In Scotland! 🐬

We stayed at the Isle of Raasay Distillery. Beautiful accommodations, extraordinary food and a behind-the-scenes tour. What a class act. 

Now, true confession…
I want to be in the cool, fancy whisky club. 🥃 I’m just not friends with whisky! 😂
I tried the tastings. I really tried. 
But my body gave me a very clear, intuitive NO.

I may not love the finished potion, but I loved witnessing the alchemy.

Barley, water, yeast, copper vats, oak barrels = magic! 🧪

Those enormous copper stills! You all know I’m straight up obsessed with copper, right?!? The care given to the ingredients and the island’s structured water all spoke to the water-stewardship lessons unfolding throughout this pilgrimage.

I didn’t need to enjoy the whisky to appreciate the artistry & alchemy. 

👑 Skye gave us my mother’s dance.
🐑 Raasay gave us dolphins, sheep, plant medicine and copper vessels. 

Another fully booked “no” guided us somewhere we didn’t know we needed to be.

Sometimes the unexpected island is the surprise waiting for you all along. ✨

#IsleOfSkye #IsleOfRaasay #ScotlandPilgrimage #WaterStewardship #SacredTravel
My parents loved Glencoe so much that they came ho My parents loved Glencoe so much that they came home to North Carolina and named their farm after it. 

We spent our first two nights in the Highlands at the Isles of Glencoe. Two nights at @islesofglencoe were not nearly enough but then again, nowhere we stayed was long enough.

When we entered our hotel room and opened the door, the water was directly accessible outside our room. 

And standing there to welcome us were a blue heron and a white crane! Whaaaat?!? 

I found a little spot on a hiking trail and began practicing #qigong moving through blue heron and white crane inspired movements with the actual birds right there with me for reference. 

It felt like Scotland was speaking a language my body already knew.

That moment opened an unexpected opportunity for me. I already knew this would be an ancestral pilgrimage. I knew I would be listening to the land. What I hadn’t understood was how much this journey would teach me about the consciousness of water. 

Everywhere we stayed, we found ourselves in direct relationship with a sacred body of💧water: each loch, river or pool had its own codes, intelligence and healing power. 

The water at Glencoe was the first to speak. The sacred water wasn’t simply gorgeous scenery. It was my teacher.

Scotland’s water felt powerful, spiritually charged and deeply communicative. The living crystal codes 💠 awakened something in me that I’m still learning about now that I’m home.

There is so much more I want to share about what the waters of Scotland taught me. Those teachings will probably become their own podcast episodes later. 

For now, I simply want to honor the place where the doorway first opened and the two winged allies were there to welcome us.

Glencoe, I understand why my parents love you and now so do I. 🪽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
My new flower friend is Fireweed, btw. 

#GlencoeScotland #ScotlandPilgrimage #WaterStewardship SacredWater
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY TWO Harry Potter Jacobite SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY TWO
Harry Potter Jacobite Steam Train 🚂 

I thought this day would be about riding the Harry Potter steam train but it became so much more. 

For months, I checked and checked for first-class tickets on the Jacobite, but they remained completely sold out. Mom had dreamed of experiencing it this way, and I had quietly held onto the hope that somehow we might be able to upgrade our tickets for the full effect: tea, shortbread and all! 🫖

On the morning of our journey, I walked up to the guard on the platform and asked one more time if we could upgrade our tickets. 

And guess what? 🪄
There were exactly two first-class seats available.

Angie and Trevor immediately said, “Take them. Put Queen Mom in first class. We’ll be perfectly happy with the view from back here.”

And just like that, we got to surprise her. 🥹

The experience was more beautiful than I could have imagined. The carriages were so “steampunk” style, which I absolutely love. The sound and rhythm of the working steam engine, the mountains and lochs unfolding beyond our windows, and crowds of people gathered along the hillsides just to watch the train pass & wave to us. It was so fun! 

But beneath the Harry Potter magic lives an even older story. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This route carries you through Glenfinnan, where Prince Charlie raised his standard in 1745 and the Highland clans gathered for the final Jacobite Rising. We weren’t simply traveling through a landscape where Harry Potter was filmed. She was moving through the history of Scotland and the ancestral land that had been calling her home.

We passed the eight locks of Neptune’s Staircase,💧traveled from Fort William to the seaside village of Mallaig, shared a beautiful meal by the water, and then climbed aboard for the journey back where we started. 

The Jacobite/Harry Potter train was one of the experiences Mom wanted the most and at the very last moment, two seats were waiting for us. 🧙

Sometimes sold out simply means trust your intuition and ask one more time. 😉

#HarryPotterScotland #ScotlandPilgrimage #TrustYourIntuition 
#steampunkstyle 
#AncestralSites
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE, CONTINUED My parents SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE, CONTINUED
My parents brought “hippie cows” to NC! 

After Scotland welcomed Mom home with a full rainbow over Loch Lomond, we stopped for our first little cup of coffee at a dairy farm. Even through we saw so many Starbucks on the trip, I was only interested the real deal family farms and local coffee shops. 

And there they were, like a reunion with old friends: Scottish Highland cattle! ❤️
Those shaggy, long-haired creatures people in NC used to call our “hippie cows” or “teddy bear cows” inspired my veganism for much of my life. 

Seeing those adorable cows again opened an unexpected doorway into our family history and into a much larger story I haven’t told yet.

My dad began as a poor janitor cleaning floors at night. At 27, he invented the first commercially available propane-powered floor machine. His invention became an extraordinary American success story. 

He was named North Carolina Small Businessman of the Year, appeared in Inc. magazine, and built one of the country’s fastest-growing privately held companies.

He and Mom had fallen in love with Scotland, so they created Glencoe Highland Farms along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Sparta, North Carolina. Dad found a way to bring Scottish Highland cattle into our mountains, where practically no one had ever seen anything like them.

I have good reason to believe they may have been among the very first Highland cattle in North Carolina, possibly even the first, and I’m now following the old records to discover exactly where Dad found them and how he got them there.

More than three decades later after falling in love with those sweet gentle souls, there they were again on our first day in Scotland. 🐮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The mural at the end of this reel is the creation of @lacywilsonart 
My family member just “happened” to be hiking out west and discovered this mural in the middle of nowhere. I find the artist’s last name to be a beautiful synchronicity. ❤️
SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE The Rainbow at Loch L SCOTLAND PILGRIMAGE: DAY ONE
The Rainbow at Loch Lomond 🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I’m home from the most incredible trip of my life, and I’ve decided to share each day with you, one sacred site and precious moment at a time. 

This pilgrimage was a gift from our mother to Trevor, his wife Angie and me. She said giving us this trip was her dream come true. 

During the first part of our journey, we returned Mom to places where she and Dad had made beautiful memories together when he was alive, places my brother Trevor and I had never experienced with them. We got to walk into those memories with her, hear the stories again and witness the sweetness of who they had been together.

Then, during the second part of our trip, we carried her into new experiences, new places she had always dreamed of seeing. 

It was a trip of memory and discovery.

This adventure was both a completion and a beginning that will take a long time to process & integrate. 

Our very first stop, fresh off the plane, was the water of Loch Lomond.

We walked down to the water’s edge beneath a gorgeous Scottish sky. There was no rainbow when we arrived and then, almost instantly, it appeared.

A complete rainbow presented to us, its entire arc stretching across the sky and touching the landscape on both sides.

It felt as though Scotland herself had been waiting for my mother.

Welcome home, Linda.

We stood there at the edge of that ancient water, witnessing a blessing we could never have arranged, scheduled or manufactured.

The land knew she had returned.

And that was how our pilgrimage began.

I cry every time I think about it.

We didn’t know then that every single day would somehow become even more magical, but Scotland had already given us her promise. 🌈
You were never meant to search for your intuition. You were never meant to search for your intuition.
You were born with it.

The magic you’re looking for isn’t somewhere outside of you. It lives in your awareness, your imagination, your choices, your words, and the way you create meaning from every moment.

You are not here to escape reality.
You are here to participate in creating it.

Your thoughts shape your stories.
Your attention shapes your experience.
Your intention shapes the way you move through the world.

The real magic is remembering who you have always been. ✨

Want to discover your own creative power and create your personal manifesto?

Comment “MANIFESTO” below and I’ll send you the link to grab your copy.

#PersonalManifesto #CreativePower #InnerWisdom #TrustYourIntuition #SelfDiscovery
Your intuition doesn’t grow by controlling nature. Your intuition doesn’t grow by controlling nature.
It grows by learning to listen.

For so long, we’ve been taught to ask:

“What can nature give me?”
“What can I gain?”
“How can I use this?”

But a deeper relationship begins with a different question:

“Who are you?”

When we slow down and truly listen, everything begins to shift.
Flowers become teachers. Trees become elders. Nature becomes a mirror for our own wisdom.

Intuition isn’t something you force.
It’s something you remember.

✨ You were born for this.

Get your copy of The Manifesto and begin your journey into right relationship, presence, and deeper connection.

Comment “MANIFESTO” and I’ll send you the details.

#Intuition #NatureConnection #SpiritualGrowth #MindfulLiving #InnerWisdom
What if Human Design didn’t have to be so… complic What if Human Design didn’t have to be so… complicated? 

If you’ve ever opened your chart, seen all the lines, numbers, gates, channels, arrows and colors, and thought…

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THIS?! 😂
You’re not alone. 

Come sit with me at Many Women, Many Stories, October 9–10 and I’ll show you how to use your own treasure map.🤓

I’ll be teaching Human Design through a more 5D, Age of Aquarius, Divine Feminine approach. It will be less memorizing a complex system, more learning to recognize and trust the unique intelligence already living inside you.

Your #humandesign bodygraph contains clues to your intuitive superpowers: the complex ways your body, senses and perception receive information before your logical mind can explain it.

Human Design is an extraordinary map for recognizing those gifts, but the map was never meant to become more important than the territory.

YOU are the territory, the ecosystem. 

At the conference, I’ll help you begin identifying your Cognitive Superpower—the way your system is designed to perceive, receive and recognize information. 🗝️

Rather than you becoming dependent on your chart, I’m going to teach you how to use the chart to become more dependent on YOU and your signals: Your body. Your perception. Your inner knowing.

This is the deeper conversation behind my Intuition Manifesto and my signature Intuition Blueprint sessions: using Human Design not to let another authority tell you who you are, but to help you remember how to recognize & trust yourself.

If Human Design has fascinated but overwhelmed you in the past. or you’re ready to understand the intuitive gifts that have been operating inside you all along, come learn with me.

I cannot WAIT to open this conversation together! The lineup of speakers & presentations at this conference is brilliant. ✨

Register through the link on the Many Women, Many Stories page. I’d love to see you there! @manywomenmanystoriestriad
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