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Embodied Soul Tending Through Nature
Closer to Mine
My hope is that this relationship with Soul Intent Arts feels less like a collection of pages and more like a place you can return to. I want it to be a place where you can pause, find your bearings, and discover the next step in your own relationship with the living world.
Allowing Autumn
When we cheerlead the ecosystem as it does its thing, we’re more intentionally part of it, IT can be bigger. It can be more enlivened with all who participate. In this way, human-persons play a role in seasonal change.
Nineteen Years
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv0J0Lhg1Ex/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==Nineteen Years Much the way new parents refer to their babies' (I have twins; always plural 😉 age as "twelve weeks" or "twenty-four months" as a way to deeply honor the...
Compassionate Depossession
Compassionate Depossession An aspect of deathwalking is depossession, which isn't just the removal of a life force from a place that it is no longer functional (or was never functional), but seeing that it is returned to the place that it can be tended and...
You Are Where
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu9EQktr8wj/?igshid=MmU2YjMzNjRlOQ==You Are Where Not a question. A statement. A fact of being. I've always loved the Rumi quote, "Wherever you are, be the soul of that place," though I think I hear it differently than others. Where they...
35 Years an Ancestor
35 years The summer that I was 17 my great aunt, whom I was very close to, died. In an anthology chapter I wrote years ago, I described her as, "the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything." It...
Becoming Spring
In seasonal change, we cheerlead the ecosystem as it does its thing, because when we’re more intentionally part of it, IT can be bigger.
The Body Awake
Miraculously Recover or Die Last week was the 22nd anniversary of my awareness of the politics of form, and that anniversary hasn’t been without ripples. It was the anniversary of my initiation into chronic pain, autoimmune disarray, and what would become a 15-year...
The Risk of Apathy
It’s time to internalize that Apathy is depression. It’s a life force. It’s alive, and Apathy functions as a container, a holding place for feelings so big we don’t know what else to do with them.
Pluriversal Sowilo
Pluriversal SowiloRepeating History and The Broken Path In writing The Weekly Rune last week, a nuance came up in it that I wanted to explore further, though was outside the scope of the actual runecast. I will elaborate here. Please come along with me and share your...
Dying Well in Community
Rekindling that wisdom by laying out plans to meet our needs after death preserves the spirit of dying well in community, establishes ritual that we can hand down to the Descendants, and appropriately centers our wellbeing in a culture that would otherwise keep us unquiet.
Reconciliation and the Dead Time
The Dead TimeSince I began blogging at Intentional Insights in 2004, I’ve shared personal spirit encounters as a lead-in to the Dark Time. In many earth-based spiritual traditions, the progression to the darker time of the year is a seasonal observation of Shadow,...
Deathwalking Fear
I’ve had a new deathwalking class in the works since last fall. and one thing after another has stalled it. Curious that the thing stalling it now is death. As such, it’s an opportune time to talk about some of the aspects of deathwalking that should be animism 101,...
Thursday Betwixt – Modern Challenges in Ecstatic Trance (Part 3)
It's been a whilesince I wrote in the Life Betwixt series. To be honest, I've not had a lot of branewidth to do so, though the experiences I've had offroad with health crisis of the last 2-3 years have taken all of my spiritual teachings even deeper. Turns out, that...
#metoo, Animism, and Ancestral Trauma
This post contains references that may be triggering for survivors of patriarchy. During the public display of Dr. Ford's personal life, an older article (by Sharon Blackie) circulated on the rape of the well-maidens. It offers deeper insight into the Celtic story of...
Meet Kelley
S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.
Kelley Harrell is an animist, author, deathwalker, and death doula held by Tuscarora, Woccon, and Sissipihaw land. For the last 30 years, through Soul Intent Arts she’s helped others ethically build thriving spiritual paths. Her work is Nature-based, and centers soul tending through the Elder Futhark runes, animism, ancestral tending, and deathwork. She hosts the podcast, What in the Wyrd, and also writes The Weekly Rune as a celebration of the Elder Futhark in season. Work with her in the Runes for Change community or in her intensive soul tending training, The Spirited Path. Full bio.
#beyourcommunity ~ #youareecosystem
elder well, die well, ancestor well
We don't heal in isolation
but in communityGift of the Dreamtime Reader’s Companion
~S. Kelley Harrell