by Lynn Jericho | Feb 18, 2015 | Wisdom of Selfhood
Lent comes every year. But Lent is not the same every year. Nor is Lent the same for everyone. Lent gives us certain universal questions and a season to work with the questions. Can I do without? Can I vanquish temptation? Each Lent we have the opportunity to work...
by Lynn Jericho | Feb 2, 2015 | Images of Self, Sense of Self
We are at a time of year that draws our attention to love. This is the time that focuses on Valentine’s Day. It is actually “Saint Valentines’s Day”, but the Saint has been dropped for the sake of pleasure and profit. So I am going to attempt to nudge some of the...
by Lynn Jericho | Dec 21, 2014 | Inner Festivals, Inner Year |
In the next few hours we will experience the Solstice in the outer world. In the calendar of the soul we can imagine surrendering to the three days of soul stillness and emptiness that fall between the release of the old inner year and the beginning of the new inner...
by Lynn Jericho | Dec 8, 2014 | Inner Festivals, New Spiritual Practices
Feast Days are present in all sacred traditions. A Feast Day is a day in the year dedicated to the celebration of a particular person, event, quality, thought, feeling or activity. It is a feast for the soul, an opportunity to raise, deepen and broaden consciousness....
by Lynn Jericho | Oct 11, 2014 | Sense of Self, Understanding Your Soul |
Freedom in Naming I read these two phrases, ambiguous loss and frozen grief, in a recent article in the AARP magazine and felt a part of my soul had found a name. I speak and write often about the importance of naming. All our feelings need a name. If we can’t...
by Lynn Jericho | Sep 29, 2014 | Inner Festivals, Substack |
It was September, 1986 that I was introduced to the festival of Michaelmas. I had enrolled my daughter in the first class of the fledgling Waldorf School of Princeton and at the end of the first month of school there was a Saturday gathering around a dragon and a...
by Lynn Jericho | Sep 14, 2014 | Sense of Self, Understanding Your Soul |
Getting Somewhere in Good Time I am going somewhere and I’m excited. And I am finally wise enough to know I will get there in good time. “Good time” is not “on time.” “Good time” indicates the process and the journey were successful. “On time” is an expectation and...
by Lynn Jericho | Aug 13, 2014 | Sense of Self |
Time for myself. It just took me a couple of seconds to type those three little words for a great big thought, a huge longing, and a very complex set of possibilities. What do I want “time for myself” for? What is the longing for and what are the possibilities...
by Lynn Jericho | Jul 23, 2014 | Understanding Your Soul
Your Cultivators Certain “others” have come into my life with a set of gardening tools. They are the gardeners of my life. Our relationships live in the fiery activity of cultivation. They have a hoe that breaks up the stuck and hard soil of the past. ...
by Lynn Jericho | Jul 12, 2014 | New Spiritual Practices, Understanding Your Soul
I have always referred to inner equanimity, thinking of equanimity as an inner quality of being or state of consciousness. Composed, balanced, smooth, vital, and elegant, but a recent comment on the webinar I gave on July 2 has evolved my sense of equanimity. The...
