by Della Ratcliffe | Apr 22, 2022 | Earth Medicine
April 22, Earth Day #InvestInOurPlanet “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates Wisdom from Grandmother Moon As Wise Women committed to an earth-based spirituality, we are striving to...
by Della Ratcliffe | Jan 28, 2021 | Earth Medicine
A sacred space for me, the pond at Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC These words from Thomas Berry, from his 1999 classic The Great Work, really resonated with me — again — today. “The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human – at the species level, with...
by Della Ratcliffe | Aug 26, 2019 | Earth Medicine
I first posted this image and this quote from scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki three years ago, with a call to each of us to balance the elements within us. “We are capable of even greater things, to rediscover our home, to find ways to live in balance with...
by Della Ratcliffe | Jan 18, 2019 | Wheel of the Year
I love how so many cultures celebrate Spring and New Year in their religious and spiritual holidays. Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and who follow the Wheel of the Year, will be celebrating Imbolc around February 1st. This holiday marked the first of three...
by Della Ratcliffe | Apr 20, 2018 | Earth Medicine
My theme for this lunar month is Love the Earth, Love your Self . . . inspired by the arrival of Spring at the Vernal Equinox, Earth Day / International Mother Earth Day on April 22nd and the coming of Bealtaine on May 1st. Together all of these honour our...
