Circle Stories From The Heart

by Martha Lucier, Founder & Circle Member We were recently visited by a wolf at the Edge, discovering tracks next to the unity wheel, around our main house, sauna and the new Dreamer’s Hill cabin at the top of the hill.  Following the tracks peaked our curiosity about why the wolf was coming around and […]

Guest Post by Deanna Fry, Circle Member & Mentor ~ Marjorie Ursula Emma Beaver (Cedar Woman) & Deanna Fry (Blue Cedar Woman) I have loved trees and being in the forest for as long as I know.  They are part of my earliest and most poignant family memories. I remember walking beside my little brother’s stroller,

Guest Post by Karin Vanhinsberg, Retreat Attendee/Mentor & Circle Member One of my Muses,  David Whyte, seems deeply fascinated and attuned to life and our relationship to everything as journeys of endless  arrivals and departures… Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and

Guest Post by Tanya M, Retreat Attendee & Circle Member This summer, I had the privilege of taking a long drive across our expansive, beautiful country with my beloved dog. I brought my large cowhide drum with me, the one that I had purchased after my first visit to Northern Edge in 2015 and brought

Guest Post by Arlene Clark I’d like to invite you to take a moment to soften your eyes and connect deep into your heart. Imagine looking at the ground and spotting a flower just beginning to sprout forth. Feel it’s roots deep under the earth, offering stability & grounding for the delicate plant that’s emerging.

Guest Post by Karin Vanhinsberg, Retreat Attendee/Mentor & Circle Member I still have this clear vignette of a moment 20 years ago during one of my work days as a nurse at a bustling city hospital emergency department. One of the doctors is telling me why her bright red lipstick is always looking more worn

Guest Post by Maria Kornacki, Circle Member I know a young lassie. Her name is Hoppy. But when she tells people her name, they seem to hear “Happy”. “Oh! Happy,” they exclaim. “What a nice name.” This happens over and over. Hoppy is frustrated. “No, not Happy. Hoppy! Why does everyone call me Happy?” Well,

Sometimes our best teachings about how Creation works come from experiencing how things don’t work. I have been reflecting deeply on how the way of the circle works after a recent experience, where I was asked to assist in manifesting a vision then was never contacted again….such a lost opportunity. What could have happened if

Guest Post by Karin Vanhinsberg, Retreat Attendee/Mentor & Circle Member Both my Grandmothers loved Hyacinths, one for their scent and signal of Spring; and, the other for the fabulous colour. I think back to my grandmothers now and all the tools they taught me. My paternal grandmother taught me practical things like how to sew

Post by Doug Mannen, Way of the Circle Co-Facilitator ~ “One million hearts. One million hands. One Drum” Honored I was to caretake Grandmother World Drum for two sessions, Nov. 10 to 16 and Nov. 19 to 23, 2018. For the first two days She partied with the other drums that are here in my