Two feasts coming up. April 5: What's holy about our mistakes? April 19: six years of gathering, and The root-work that sustains us. Sundays 4pm ET. All are welcome: click to get the link … bring a friend. #SpiritualFeast #EarthBasedSpirituality #PaganCommunity forms.gle/qf8k11AkSbqw...

3 student spirit tenders, free companioning, April ’26–Feb ’27 Lisa for LGBTQ+ folks & activists. Tracy for UUs & complex-family navigators. Gail, who traveled from Baptist to Pagan and UU, for working professionals & moms tending their inner flame. Meet them #SpiritualDirection #SpiritTending

Doctor for your body. Therapist for your history. But who do you call when the question is about meaning? That's what a spiritual companion is for … right now you can try it free with #CherryHillSeminary students. #SpiritualDirection #Paganism abeltaine.blogspot.com/2026/03/is-y...

Four student spirit tenders. Free companioning April '26–Feb '27 through Cherry Hill Seminary. One of them might be who you've been looking for. Meet them + book a free intro chat → abeltaine.blogspot.com/2026/02/four... #SpiritualDirection #SpiritTending #PaganSpirituality

Your spirituality doesn't fit the usual containers, and you deserve companioning that doesn't either. Free spirit tending with trained students from Cherry Hill Seminary. Meet them, book a quick hello, see who feels right. #SpiritualDirection #SpiritTending abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/01/emba...

Two days left to apply. 4 spots remain in our March cohort - spiritual direction training for earth-based, pagan & multi-religious communities. Is this your calling? 🌙 #SpiritTending #CherryHillSeminary #SpiritTending #SacredListening #SpiritualCompanion abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/01/cher...

“Some of the most spiritually enriching experiences I've ever had occurred outside of institutional religion. This course was one of those experiences." Apply now: earth-based spiritual direction training. Feb 15 deadline. abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/01/cher... #SpiritualDirection #EarthBased

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First lessons endure: Why Am I Talking? 🌙 Our March cohort learns to witness sacred unfolding, not fix it. 24-month spiritual direction certification for #earthbased & #Pagan communities. 6 spots left. Apply by Feb 15 abeltaine.blogspot.com/2026/02/from... #SpiritualDirection

Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

My Slovak grandmother's legacy: ginger cookies, warm hugs, and traditions she was embarrassed to share. In her 70s, she went back to Slovakia. It's never too late to find your way home to what your people knew. 🕯️ #Gromnica #AncestralHealing #witchsky

Relationships change us. A MAGA podcaster is calling out Trump's DHS. Is it because he's now a father? That's the work spiritual companions tend. We need relationship building skills in justice spaces, not just church basements and offices. 🌙✨ #SpiritualDirection #JusticeWork #SpiritTending

There's something happening here What it is ain't exactly clear There's a man with a gun over there A-telling me I got to beware I think it's time we stop Children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down

We need to pay attention to what is true. And…

Authoritarianism thrives on brittle spirits. This helps. Become flexible, grounded, unshakable. This isn’t self-care fluff, it’s infrastructure for resistance. Training skilled companions for earth-based communities. March cohort forming. #SpiritualDirection #WitchesOfSky #SacredResistance

Just saw it noted that 100% of the world’s Ozempic supply comes from Denmark, as does a somewhat smaller percentage of the world’s insulin. Almost as if it’s really quite a small world!

When you're seeking a guide for the journey, it helps to know the terrain. Spiritual companioning, coaching, therapy, mentorship—they each offer something different. Here's how to find your fit. 🌙✨ #SpiritualCompanioning #Guidance #InnerWork medium.com/@abeltaine/f...

January in my course is discernment month: when we learn which divination tools honor lineages & which cause harm. tarot? complicated. sortilege? accessible. if you’re discerning your next step, try some new practices. deadline to join the course-2/15 💫 #divination #spiritualdirection #witchsky

Having the best conversations with people answering the call to train as spiritual directors. If people come to you with spiritual questions, let's talk! Is this training right for you? 2-year program. Earth-centered, trauma-aware, fiercely inclusive. Info: abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/01/cher...

In another act of depraved immorality Trumps military attacked a capital city, kidnapped the president & wife. This act of war was not approved by Congress. deep concern for the people of Puerto Rico who are the likely locus of Venezuelan retaliation.

New year with Janus The two-faced god Janus teaches us: look back to remember your strength, face forward with love and commitment. We don't build resilience alone. 🔥✨ Your spiritual practice IS your resistance practice. #witchsky #CollectiveResilience #JanusMagic

#oneofthetwo #mask I mask because I care about other people. I mask because I am immunocompromised, and I don’t want flu or other diseases. I mask because long COVID sucks. I mask because I want to safely visit friends and family who are undergoing cancer treatment. Why do you mask?

On the longest night, we gather at the hearth. 🔥 A #WinterSolstice grounding meditation for tending the communal fire—the warmth we create together that carries us through the dark. For your #solstice circles, personal practice, or quiet ritual tonight. #PaganSpirituality #meditation #witchsky

Deep Listening: While You WAIT Words shape the sacred space of spiritual direction. so does silence. In W.A.I.T.: Why Am I Talking, I explored how intentional restraint helps companions create spaciousness for Spirit. This post is the other side of that practice: what happens while you wait.

Explore consent-based ethics in spiritual direction: trust, accountability, and power named as sacred practices of care and integrity. medium.com/@abeltaine/e...

Every year for the past decade or so, I’ve posted a prayer of grief for Trans Day of Remembrance. This year? I just feel sad, tired, and angry. I want the scapegoating, hatred, and violence to stop…. #TDOR

I'm excited (and ridiculously proud): NOW accepting applications to the next cohort of the 2-year Spiritual Direction certification program through Cherry Hill Seminary. Thought about becoming a spiritual companion? curious what that means for Pagan and earth-centered communities? Let’s talk.

It's Samhain! This is an offering of a fantastic story by Stephen Posch: The story of the First Jack-o-Lantern. youtu.be/GndxOD6SvGo

A guide for spiritual companions on attending to death, dying, and grief with compassion, ritual, and presence. medium.com/@abeltaine/a...

A guided meditation inviting you to rest in the lineage of care—connecting through breath, body, and ancestral love flowing down to you. medium.com/@abeltaine/g...

How engineered fear fuels authoritarianism and why spiritual direction as liberation work, not just comfort, builds the resilience needed to resist. medium.com/@abeltaine/a...

New York just showed us what we can do. (Watch for inspiration, context, and guidelines on how do do this in your city.) youtu.be/u5TNLCpx-t8?...

A guided meditation on fierce love and inner strength. Connect with your protective wisdom and connect to an animal presence that supports your journey. medium.com/@abeltaine/a... guided meditation, fierce love, inner strength, grounding, self-compassion, protective wisdom, mindfulness, bear wisdom

This work to protect the vote is so important! Regaining control of our country is necessary, but retaining control equally necessary.

On bear goddesses, manufactured fear, and why spiritual practice is revolutionary resistance. A homily offering fierce love as a third way. medium.com/@abeltaine/f...

Experience a guided Nautilus Labyrinth meditation—spiraling inward and outward through breath, presence, and spiritual reflection. medium.com/@abeltaine/n...

You're Not Alone: Some of Us Never Joined the Cult I see the heartbreak. The devastation of watching family swept into MAGA hate. We're still here.

Tired of hype & hustle? Here's a list of heart-centered, anti-capitalist biz coaches for healers & helpers 💗 Rooted in justice, consent, & care. medium.com/@abeltaine/h...

Fall Equinox: Abundance, Gratitude, and Giving in Times of Trouble, the Earth pauses. This turning point in the year invites us to do the same: to pause, reflect, and ask ourselves what we've gathered and what we're ready to give. With guided meditation.

on point. and filled with relentless optimism based on real info. She follows indivisible’s briefings, and is in Portland Oregon. m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

Started writing about all the terrifying news, then stopped. We've recited that list 1000x already. For my fellow healers/caregivers feeling dysregulated: stop perseverating. Turn toward what sustains you. Ask for help when you need it. The world needs you whole, not empty. 💙

Gen. John F. Kelly (retired Marine four-star general, former White House Chief of Staff under Trump) In interviews with The New York Times, Kelly said Trump “meets the definition of a fascist” and “prefers the dictator approach to government.”

Gen. Mark Milley (retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) In Bob Woodward’s book War, Milley is quoted saying that Donald Trump is “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person to this country.”

A private message from 2016 attributed to JD Vance said: “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. That quote was leaked later (in 2022) by a former Yale roommate(s).

Boycott ABC/Disney+ & subsidiaries until they stop silencing dissent. Defend the Constitution, protect free speech, and resist censorship! Hate speech prosecution belongs in the courts, free expression isn’t up for debate in the USA! #FreeSpeech #NoCensorship #BoycottDisneyABC

Boycotts work

You GO League of Women Voters!

Quick question: where do you go when your SOUL needs guidance? We have therapists for minds, advisors for money — but when justice work burns you out and the calling remains, where do you turn? Sacred questions need sacred space. abeltaine.blogspot.com/2025/09/wher...

NO to gun violence. NO to harming others. NO to fomenting violence toward others.