New Moon in Pisces: Love all your selves
Holy moly, what a month! To start, let me say to everyone, you’re not losing your mind and the world isn’t conspiring against you, even though right now I know it might feel like that (especially if...
View ArticleNew Moon in Aries: My best friend, Me
Transits for March 27th through April 25th 2017 Last month’s focus was on healing forgotten parts of ourselves back into wholeness. This month, we take that wealth of new knowledge and decide, from a...
View ArticleNew Moon in Taurus: I’m worth it
Transits for April 26th through May 24th 2017 While last month’s focus was all about deciding who we really are and what we actually want, this month is all about grounding those newly discovered...
View ArticlePermission … to do what?
This blog is the first in a Permission Slip series by Souldust Guide Jennifer MacNiven, where she shares her own journey of transformation. When you hear the word, permission – what does it mean for...
View ArticlePermission to Bali – I mean, believe, in myself
This blog is the second in a Permission Slip series by Souldust Guide Jennifer MacNiven, where she shares her own journey of transformation. As discussed in my last post, permission has tremendous...
View ArticleNew Moon in Leo: A time for collective badassery
Happy New Moon! And Happy Birthday Leos! Your heart, passion and zest for life is what keeps this world inspired. Thank you for always putting your full self out there, vulnerabilities and all, so...
View ArticlePermission to go… solo
Photo credit: Shutterstock This blog is the third in a Permission Slip series by Souldust Guide Jennifer MacNiven, where she shares her own journey of transformation. Here are the first and the second...
View ArticlePermission to Go with the Flow
Image credit: Shutterstock This blog is the third in a Permission Slip series by Souldust Guide Jennifer MacNiven, where she shares her own journey of transformation. Here are the first, second and...
View ArticleNew Moon: An American Chart Reading
Photo by NASA on Unsplash As I’m sure you’ve noticed, we’re now fully immersed in some massive changes. While the potential for growth and healing is incredibly vast, the way to get there is not...
View ArticleNew Moon in Virgo: You’re Already Whole
Photo via Shutterstock Happy New Moon! We made it! We’ve now come out the other side of all that intense Eclipse season energy and have lived to tell another tale. What’s next? Transits for September...
View ArticleComing to Camp
I’m an anxious person. It’s important to know that I’m also a person who says “yes.” What I mean by that is if I’m invited to an event––like, really invited, not just Facebook invited–– or to read...
View ArticleUsing Writing to Heal
Photo via Shutterstock My life changed drastically almost two years ago. At first, for the worse. Two months into my relocation to Seattle with my spouse, I received the single-line text message...
View ArticleIn the Eye of the Beholder
One photographer’s path from self critical to self love. Photo via Shutterstock Beauty is a fluid concept that means something different person to person. For me, for a long time, it was a reminder of...
View ArticleThe Path to Wedding
Photo by Ben Rosett on Unsplash I recently got married. Ten years before my wedding, I had a dream. I really owe my wedding to it. At the time, I was preparing to write my thesis for my master’s degree...
View ArticleChanging Tides
I had a dream that I was standing at my bedroom window staring out at the calm ocean. The ocean became choppy with tight little rocking waves. Those waves became larger and more spread out, and soon...
View ArticleBattling Seasonal Affective Disorder with Hygge
Photo by Haley Powers on Unsplash Growing up in Portland, Oregon, I always loved the colder, darker months. They were moody, perfect for sipping coffee and writing (admittedly bad) adolescence-inspired...
View ArticleOwning Your Choices Is Worth It
Some say that the only real currency is time. As we kick off 2018, a lot of us are wondering how to make the most of our days and seeking out inspiration in all the usual places, like the all-knowing...
View ArticleOn Being “Good Enough”
Photo by Luis Alfonso Orellana on Unsplash This past December, I made a big, bold move and left my corporate job. This came after tuning into my intuition, paying attention to signs, and seeking...
View ArticleSouldust DIY: Intuitive Collage
One of our favorite activities at Souldust involves cutting, pasting, and tuning into something quiet and true while making something unique for your journal, home, altar space, or even to burn as an...
View ArticleMaking Magic in Manzanita
Things I’ve generally felt confident in calling myself: a writer, a friend, anxious, a camp nerd, a spouse, a proud puppy parent. Things I wouldn’t have even thought to call myself before last year?...
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