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Personal, Meaningful, and Made by Hand: Custom Rosaries & Prayer Beads
Did you know that a custom rosary usually costs about the same as the ones listed in my shop? It’s true — a custom rosary or set of prayer beads is surprisingly affordable. Over the years, I’ve refined my pricing so I can offer something personal…
The Spirit in the Sweetness: Honey as Sacred Symbol
It’s harvest time in many parts of the world. A time to savor the bounty of nature as days get a bit shorter and cooler. We begin to draw inward, slow down and prepare for winter. The call from Our Lady of Bees this season has…
Our Lady of Bees – Podcast
I feel so blessed to be the co-creator of the long-running Archetypal Tarot Podcast. Although I’ve stepped back from co-hosting and producing, I’m grateful that I can still stir the creative pot when something resonates deeply. That’s why I reached out to my dear friend and…
Our Lady of Bees devotional for Peace in the Middle East
I was raised Catholic and grew up asking for Great Mother Mary for help—because let’s be honest, if you want something done, you ask Mom! While I am no longer a practicing Catholic, my devotion to the Holy Mother is deeper than ever. I create and…
🐝 Bee Together: A Call to Community
We are living through times of great upheaval—where peril and possibility walk side by side. In the midst of this, Our Lady of the Bees calls us toward community, creativity, and joyful, sacred action.
Our Lady of the Bees: An Invitation to Community, Care & Joy
The world is so nuts and the last 6 months in the US – crazy town. I’ve felt every flavor of flight, fight, and freeze, sometimes cycling through them all in a single day. I ask myself “what can I do?” “is it enough?” over and…
Further Inspiration & Evolution
This new year I’ve felt inspired to update/uproot/upgrade many small things. It’s felt quite organic in that I’m seeing more opportunities to re-tune to what is needed and align myself closer to Her. And it’s felt quite natural and easy to do so. With that, my…
St. Francis of Assisi & the Octopus
A tale generated by modern magic. I recently dipped my toe into artificial intelligence for a work project unrelated to my priestessing. I find the idea of Ai kind of terrifying and in recent discussions most people do too. But it’s not all a Pandora’s box…
Aloha Maui Meditation & Prayer Strands
🌴 One month ago today, my beautiful island suffered major wildfires, leaving our community reeling from the losses. I created these bead strands to represent the hope, resiliency and beauty of Maui and it’s people. 100% of the profits will be donated to support the healing…
Mental Health Prayer Poetry & Bees
I love including bee symbols in my co-creations. Bees are rich in symbology and, to me, have always represented the sun and happiness. These tiny creatures are vital to our survival, keeping our ecosystem balanced. They are regarded as a positive omen in nearly all indigenous…
Ancestor Hoops: Using Beads for Ancestor Work
I am super excited to finally be able to share this!!! Many are called to ancestor work when needing guidance, support, healing, or connection. I get the sense that they want to reach us as well. Unless you come from a culture with specific practices around…
Self Compassion Meditation and Prayer Beads
The world has been extra crazy these last couple of years. How we navigate it can be expanded and made more bearable with a self compassion practice. I created these beads for just that. The beads chosen correlate to 5 ways to engage with compassion for…
Bespoke Gifts with Meaning
Custom Prayer & Meditation Strands for Everyone! If you are looking for a personalized and meaningful gift for a friend or relative, one of my prayer & meditation strands could be just the thing. This post provides some options to choose from when ordering a custom…
Free Range Rosaries Origin Story
One year ago today I sold my first Free Range Rosary on Etsy. This was my first official sale and it just so happens that the same person who purchased it, just bought another one of my creations yesterday. I’m still unclear on whether it’s freerange…
What is a Free Range Rosary?
I started making rosaries a little over a year ago. I had started praying the rosary again last year out of need, desperation really and I came to make rosaries out of a need to create love out of misery; to walk a spiral around the…
A Spiritual Practice for Guilt
We come to prayer and meditation for many reasons. Some have a daily practice, some come to prayer the way you grab the “Oh Jesus” handle in the car when things get rough. Praying for help in the clutch of difficulty is as old as old…
Summer Solstice Prayer, Play & Transformation (and new beads!)
Today is the Summer Solstice and the feeling of regeneration, new connection and a release from SO many months of isolation, worry, grief, change and a world turned on it’s ear is palpable. The pandemic is not over and the corners up ahead contain mystery. As…
Free Range Inspiration for Summer 2021
So I’m pretending to be an organized business with “seasons” just for fun. (Worth a shot right? lol😜) I’m just SO stoked to connect to Makuahine Nui (Great Mother) and co-create some new free-range rosaries, malas and chaplets this summer. Summer is almost here! More are…
What kind of _____ Catholic are you ?
Creating this site and starting a micro-business making and selling rosaries has me thinking a lot more about my Catholic upbringing. I’ve also been pleasantly surprised to find a community with many other Ex / Former / Recovering / Raised / Enter-a-word-here Catholics. Especially those that…
Why I love the symbolism of the Lotus Blossom
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated with the Lotus flower. They grow in the muck and rise up toward the sun to bloom on the surface of the water (usually, some grow in very wet earth). As a metaphor it’s something most of…
Family Trees And Rosaries
What to do with my Great Grandmother’s broken rosary? According to family lore, it was buried with her back in the 1950’s. It appeared again in my Great Aunt’s jewelry box many years later.
A Cosmic View of the Glorious Mysteries
I recently re-discovered the more than amazing Father Seán ÓLaoire. He’s my second favorite Irish former Catholic priest. (The late John O’Donohue is the first.) No longer a formal part of the Church, he is the Spiritual Director of Companions on the Journey a group based…
A Buddhist Nun and a Catholic Priest walk into …
What happens when a Buddhist Nun and a Catholic Priest get together to talk about cultivating courage in difficult times? Truth and hilarity ensue.
Honu Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle Symbolism
The name for the endemic Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle is Honu and they are one of my most beloved creatures in Hawaii. I frequently include Honu beads in my rosaries and prayer beads. I ❤️ Honu! I include some of the following notes on the symbolism…
Tree of Life Symbolism
I frequently use a Tree of Life on my rosaries and prayer beads in place of a cross or crucifix. It’s a powerful symbol packed with meaning and significance for many people & cultures. I made a rosary for a friend who is a semi-practicing Catholic…
Rebellion, Rosaries and Reclaiming the Goddess (podcast)
a surprisingly feminist practice hidden inside the patriarchy.
Hail Mary: A Cathlo-Buddhist Mashup
I wrote this prayer about 10 years ago. It’s a mashup of the Hail Mary and the Buddhist Metta (Loving kindness) mantra. I was inspired to write it in part to quell my Catholic Mom’s worries that I’d become a heathen (anything not Catholic in her…
Rosaries For Rebels: Non Churchy Ways to Use the Beads
This article is by my dear friend and podcast co-host Cyndera Quakenbush. It was originally published here on Your Tango. Check out her work with Story Through Stone. If you’re anything like me and about 23% of all Americans, you are not affiliated with any religion.…
Our Art of Heaven Hallowed Be a New Prayer
This summer I found a beautiful translation of the Our Father prayer and shared it with my Rosary Circle. We soon adopted it into our rosary practice, using it for the first Pater (Our Father) bead. This translation is from the original Aramaic and was done…
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