AUGUST 2025
Welcome to orientation! It seems the “map” of the collective is still “redrawing” beneath our feet - and the energy is scattered to say the least - so my picks for August all center around our ability to orient ourselves.
Meadow helps us find and enjoy higher and finer frequencies than those that modern daily life offers us, House helps us see the truth and beauty of what is going in inside us, You Are Here helps us know where we are and what we face in each direction, and More Than Human orients us to the truth that we have access to more natural kinship than we think.
The meditations I’m sharing this month are all full-length, longer meditations. This is because I feel we are ready to dive deeper and spend long enough in a meditation to experience maximum benefits; and because these days, it takes us a little more time at the beginning of the experience to allow all levels of ourselves arrive.
I believe once again, we are at a turning point - this time I think in the direction of something good.
Have a good month, remember - we can’t stop the waves, but we can learn to surf…
xo Jess
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"Just as many machines reset themselves to their original settings after a power outage, human beings reset themselves to something altruistic, communitarian, resourceful and imaginative after a disaster, we revert to something we already know how to do. The possibility of paradise is already within us as a default setting."
- Rebecca Solnit
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The witchery of living
is my whole conversation
with you my darlings.
All I can tell you is what I know.
Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes.
It's more than bones.
It's more than the delicate wrist with its personal pulse.
It's more than the beating of the single heart.
It's praising.
It's giving until the giving feels like receiving.
You have a life - just imagine that!
You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.
Let me ask you this.
Do you also think that beauty exists for some fabulous reason?
And if you have not been enchanted by this adventure - your life -
what would do for you?
- Mary Oliver
“In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all. We imagine a house, a rectangle of hope. A room with a single bed with a pale coverlet, a few precious books, a stamp album. Walls papered in faded floral fall away and burst as a newborn meadow speckled with sun and a stream emptying into a greater stream where a small boat awaits with two glowing oars and one blue sail.”
- Patti Smith
“There is much good. I am gardening the good. May it act like an invasive species and overtake my ecosystem. May it take a “leaf” from the burly knotweed and send up woody stalks in the barren lands of my desaturated hopes and dreams.
There is so much good.”
- Sophie Strand
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.”
- Walt Whitman