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Grandmother Corn is an Ancient Onewho shares the medicine ofplentyenoughnesslush nourishmentabundance Everyone’s included in the bountiful sharingnobody’s left out of the beauty and richnesswalls …
Grandmother Corn is …
Grandmother Corn is an Ancient Onewho shares the medicine ofplentyenoughnesslush nourishmentabundance Everyone’s included in the bountiful sharingnobody’s left out of the beauty and richnesswalls don’t separate the haves from have-notsthere is nothing you have to do to deserve the gifts In her languagewords do not existto evaluate who’s worthyof love, generosity, and respect In her ancestral knowingsthere is no translationfor never-enoughness In her eyesthe web of lifeis not chopped apartinto deserving/undeservingsuperior/inferiorbeautiful/unbeautifulspecial/unspecialgood/badbetter tha…
JoAnne Dodgson
July 1, 2024 Solstice is a particular alignment between our earth and sun, a cosmic happening that shapes unique seasonal shifts in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. For centuries, humans have been honoring S…
Solstice is a partic…
Solstice is a particular alignment between our earth and sun, a cosmic happening that shapes unique seasonal shifts in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. For centuries, humans have been honoring Solstice in remarkable ways in diverse cultures and lands. In a recent ceremonial gathering, the spirits shared a vivid teaching about the Solstice that is currently unfolding. While Moving into summer and winter seasons, we are also Moving through thresholds of a much more expansive cycle of change. A new era for humanity and our earth is being birthed, leaving behind the imbalances and re-creatin…
JoAnne Dodgson
June 19, 2024 I’m Moving home. It’s a big leap ~ from here to there, bridging endings with beginnings, and reorienting my inner landscape in relationship with the physical world. My quests for home, to find my …
I’m Moving home. I…
I’m Moving home. It’s a big leap ~ from here to there, bridging endings with beginnings, and reorienting my inner landscape in relationship with the physical world. My quests for home, to find my people, to live my passions and purposes, have led to many shifts through the years. There have been grand adventures, great challenges, and a whole bunch of twists and turns and circling back around in the spiraling path of my life. I’ve had to move through some Grief to keep Moving with these current changes. Curiosity fills me now about why this particular place is calling me home – and way…
JoAnne Dodgson
May 30, 2024 
A flowing river of Elk leapt over a barbed wire fence. Awed by the sight, I pulled my car to the side of the road and rolled down my window to listen and watch. The herd was made up of at least one hu…
A flowing river of E…
A flowing river of Elk leapt over a barbed wire fence. Awed by the sight, I pulled my car to the side of the road and rolled down my window to listen and watch. The herd was made up of at least one hundred elk, a multi-generational group, still adorned with thick furry winter coats. A couple other vehicles pulled over and parked. Motors were turned off. As if entering a sanctuary, we instinctively quieted. We were stopped in our tracks by the beauty of wild elk finding their way through snowy mountain lands. Once over the fence, one by one, the elk climbed up a hill and regrouped in a meadow. …
JoAnne Dodgson
April 21, 2024 Elders say the wheel of life is turning in the direction of regeneration, a birthing time to rebuild our world with love, harmony, and balance. The out of balance ways are coming undone and falling ap…
Elders say the wheel…
Elders say the wheel of life is turning in the direction of regeneration, a birthing time to rebuild our world with love, harmony, and balance. The out of balance ways are coming undone and falling apart. We are standing in a threshold between worlds. How can we move with these currents of change to re-vision, re-member, and reset balance in our world? In a recent ceremony, spirits are showing that we’ve barely touched our toes in the waters of healing. We have limited ideas about what healing and transformation are, how these processes happen, who is involved, and what the outcomes should b…
JoAnne Dodgson
April 1, 2024 In the threshold between our earth’s seasons, we gather the gifts of what is and has been while Moving with the momentum of change. Each step we take, every choice we make, each thought we think and…
In the threshold bet…
In the threshold between our earth’s seasons, we gather the gifts of what is and has been while Moving with the momentum of change. Each step we take, every choice we make, each thought we think and word that we speak, shapes what’s coming alive in our inner landscapes and the outer world. When wintertime settles into the red rock mesas of northern New Mexico, the blue skies grow still after geese and sandhill cranes fly by boisterously celebrating their migrations south. I rarely cross paths with coyotes and rabbits, though their tracks may be found in the snow, mud, and sandy soil. Th…
JoAnne Dodgson
March 1, 2024 Today I saw a butterfly her blue speckled wings glistened in the sunlight the magic of her metamorphosis danced around in the winds She flew over the sagebrush and landed on red sandy soil resting aw…
Today I saw a butter…
Today I saw a butterfly her blue speckled wings glistened in the sunlight the magic of her metamorphosis danced around in the winds She flew over the sagebrush and landed on red sandy soil resting awhile opening and closing her wings a silent rhythmic drumbeat sending wave after wave of the knowledge she holds about naturally transforming I’m following the path of Butterfly together we can join the dance of the butterflies in the passionate pursuit of becoming fully who we are here to be We too can create space for transformation sheltering dissolving dismantling what has been shaping new …
JoAnne Dodgson
January 1, 2024 
What are the gifts in this shifting of the seasons during this Solstice season? Receive guidance and healing from the spirits in Throwing the Bones Ceremony. JoAnne Dodgson, www.joannedodgson.com
What are the gifts i…
What are the gifts in this shifting of the seasons during this Solstice season? Receive guidance and healing from the spirits in Throwing the Bones Ceremony. JoAnne Dodgson, www.joannedodgson.com
JoAnne Dodgson
December 19, 2023 Solstice, Equinox, and New Moon are my cherished holidays. I’m drawn toward these transitional passages, awed by their essential part in creation, curious about the purposes and effects of such vast…
Solstice, Equinox, a…
Solstice, Equinox, and New Moon are my cherished holidays. I’m drawn toward these transitional passages, awed by their essential part in creation, curious about the purposes and effects of such vast and ancient natural cycles. The shifting of seasons, the turning of the times, opens space for transformations to come alive. I love the wonder of opening into new cycles, finding my way in the mystery and unknowns, honoring the dying away of what has been, exploring and seeding and holding potentials for the birthings of what can be. A sense of belonging, the knowingness of home, the spaciousnes…
JoAnne Dodgson
December 19, 2023 
I’m heading west on a roadtrip to visit an Elephant Sanctuary. For years, I’ve told friends I might leave everything behind and go to Africa and live with the elephants! Though I haven’t made th…
I’m heading west o…
I’m heading west on a roadtrip to visit an Elephant Sanctuary. For years, I’ve told friends I might leave everything behind and go to Africa and live with the elephants! Though I haven’t made that leap, elephants have taken up residence in my heart. I’m thrilled to have a chance to get a glimpse of these majestic animals, even if from afar. The elephants, tigers and bears living in the sanctuary have been freed from circuses and zoos. The public is only allowed to visit a handful of days each year, and just a small group of people each time. There is no direct contact with the animals…
JoAnne Dodgson
November 24, 2023 
We are in between Equinox and Solstice, a passage between seasons, a transitional space that bridges what has been with what is coming into being. There are diverse cultural traditions that mark th…
We are in between…
We are in between Equinox and Solstice, a passage between seasons, a transitional space that bridges what has been with what is coming into being. There are diverse cultural traditions that mark this transitional time with ceremonies and celebrations, recognizing the power and beauty that live in the in-betweens. In-betweens are sacred spaces filled with mystery and wonder, with questions and quests. You may feel you’re in the currents of a flowing river. What direction are you heading? Pulled off balance by turbulent waters? Floating in gentle eddying pools? In-betweens are inherent in t…
JoAnne Dodgson
November 1, 2023 
“I don’t think I can do it,” I whispered, tears stuck in my throat. Jaguar stirred, yawning and stretching. She leaned over the tree branch, glancing toward me. “Can’t do what?” she ask…
“I don’t thin…
“I don’t think I can do it,” I whispered, tears stuck in my throat. Jaguar stirred, yawning and stretching. She leaned over the tree branch, glancing toward me. “Can’t do what?” she asked. “I don’t think I can change. Again.” Weighted down by exhaustion and embarrassed by my words, I tried to explain myself. “I wish things were different. I’ve been trying. But I’m afraid. It’s hard to step out of my comfort zone.” Jaguar leapt to the ground, landing gracefully without a sound. She walked in a circle, imprinting the earth with a trail of massive paw prints surroun…
JoAnne Dodgson
October 1, 2023 
Throwing the Bones Ceremony on Super Full Moon, August 2023 JoAnne Dodgson, www.joannedodgson.com
Throwing the Bones C…
Throwing the Bones Ceremony on Super Full Moon, August 2023 JoAnne Dodgson, www.joannedodgson.com
JoAnne Dodgson
September 1, 2023 
This is the Bridge Time, according to the elders. The out of balance, unsustainable, upside down world is taking itself apart. Bridge Time is a passage between worlds. We are standing in the midst …
This is the Bridg…
This is the Bridge Time, according to the elders. The out of balance, unsustainable, upside down world is taking itself apart. Bridge Time is a passage between worlds. We are standing in the midst of flowing rivers of change. How will we get across to the other side? We are the Bridge People, according to the elders. Bridge People make pathways shaped by visions of a thriving, peaceful, equitable, heart-centered world. Bridge People take steps to reset the balance, guided by the remembering of what lives in our human hearts, our ancestral knowings, our natural ways of being. Bridge People r…
JoAnne Dodgson
August 25, 2023 Soak in the medicines and doctoring from the spirits, a clip from our Throwing the Bones Ceremony, August Full Moon Gathering…
Soak in the medicine…
Soak in the medicines and doctoring from the spirits, a clip from our Throwing the Bones Ceremony, August Full Moon Gathering…
JoAnne Dodgson
August 2, 2023 
Soak in the medicines from our Throwing of the Bones Ceremony on Full Moon in August 2023. For more information, visit: https://www.joannedodgson.com
Soak in the medicine…
Soak in the medicines from our Throwing of the Bones Ceremony on Full Moon in August 2023. For more information, visit: https://www.joannedodgson.com
JoAnne Dodgson
August 2, 2023 
Jasmine bounded ahead, tracking scented trails invisible to my human eyes and nose and ears. Fully in the adventure of her four-legged aliveness, she ignited my curiosity about the stories she was …
Jasmine bounded a…
Jasmine bounded ahead, tracking scented trails invisible to my human eyes and nose and ears. Fully in the adventure of her four-legged aliveness, she ignited my curiosity about the stories she was gathering up. She held a world of knowing about who had been by, how long ago, and our part in this weaving of webs of relationships in the land we were wandering through. From high overhead in a towering pine, Raven called out. Jasmine ran to the tree trunk, stopped abruptly, looked skyward, and barked in response to Raven’s cackles and caws. With wide-open wings, Raven swooped down toward Jasm…
JoAnne Dodgson
July 21, 2023 An elegant deer took a few tentative steps onto the two-lane highway, looking here and there, ears shifting around, gathering information, assessing how and when to make her journey to the other si…
An elegant deer t…
An elegant deer took a few tentative steps onto the two-lane highway, looking here and there, ears shifting around, gathering information, assessing how and when to make her journey to the other side. I stopped in the middle of the road and turned on the blinking hazard lights to alert other drivers. I held my breath while prayers whispered in my heart, yearnings for the deer’s safe passage. These mountain lands are Deer’s natural terrain, a place where her ancestors have resided for many generations, migrating in rhythm with the seasons. Cars, trucks, highways, pavement, engines and to…
JoAnne Dodgson
July 7, 2023 
