by Kate Joyner | Jun 21, 2023 | Devotion, Elemental Eros, Eros, Longing, Love, Magic
If we are to come home to the deep truth of our hearts, then we must befriend the realm of Eros. I see Eros as the bottom-up regulator of our reality. The pesky guest, the wild god, the troubled rebel. The life force that is often denied because the truths of Eros...
by Kate Joyner | Jun 16, 2023 | Desire, Elemental Eros, Eros, Longing, Love, Magic
What would the world be without love? Rumi, Hafez, and all of these mystical poets spoke about the existential yearning for The Beloved in their great works of poetry. The human journey at its fullest is all about the quest that propels us to search for The Beloved,...
by Kate Joyner | Apr 21, 2023 | Feminine, Initiation, Longing
One of the images I repeatedly hear of when working with women is the woman in a cage. It’s quite uncanny how the image repeats itself, an obvious stirring with the collective psyche. I know this place. I lived in this place for many years. I lived the excruciation...
by Kate Joyner | Nov 15, 2022 | Desire, Embodiment, Longing, Love
To come into the fullness of our love as women we need to remember, in every cell of our beings, our rootedness within the web of creation. We need to remember our place, our belonging, just not as cognition but as a full bodied knowing. Our current world order has us...
by Kate Joyner | Jun 23, 2022 | Desire, Embodiment, Longing, Magic
Time and time again I hear women speaking their longing to find freedom of expression. I know this longing. It was also mine. This longing runs deep within the feminine soul, a longing to let loose the eternal voice we carry on the inside, releasing ourselves at long...
by Kate Joyner | Feb 28, 2022 | Love, Longing, Surrender
Last night I was at the local church listening to the choir. I found myself being unexpectedly moved by the chorus of voices emanating a kind of communion with holy. The song about Mary birthing her son, Jesus, had me weeping, along with the song about a wishing well...
