Wow! What a year 2025 has been. It’s hard to believe it’s already coming to a close. As we look ahead to 2026, change is coming - both at Tree of Life Temple and in the world. 2025, the year of the snake, brought the transformation and massive shedding of what no longer fits. 2026, the year of the fire horse, will bring about rapid forward movement and growth into the space that was cleared in the past year. Of course, this will look different for everyone. For us, it will lo

Happy November, friends!  We’re just coming out of a beautiful ceremony we hosted over Samhain and Dia de los Muertos. This ceremony we went deep into ancestral work, releasing a lot of heaviness and distortion from our ancestral lines. Now on the other side of that, we’re asked “what do you want to create instead?” Setting down energies, beliefs, and patterns that no longer serve your highest good is necessary, but it’s also important not to get caught up in purging and shad

It’s October, and Fall is officially upon us here in Northern California. The rains have begun to fall, and the temperatures to drop. And...

As the days get shorter and Summer slowly draws to a close, the change in seasons invites us to pause and reflect on all we’ve received...

From before the time that we founded Tree of Life Temple, we knew that we were being called to serve medicine in a different way than...

Slow down and soften has been the constant message I’ve been receiving this Spring. Relax and open to receive. Easy to say, harder to do...

With the coming of Spring it is time for us to collectively rise from the depths of winter and utilize the re-birthing energy of the...

If 2024 (the year of the Dragon) was about burning away all illusion, then 2025 (the year of the Snake) is truly about transformation....

As the seasons continue to change and we begin our descent from Fall into Winter, we approach the time of the year that many cultures in...

Everything that we believe about ourselves and the world around us impacts the reality we create in this life. Therefore, how we identify...

Transformation, by definition, is to change from one form or structure into another. Ultimately, this means that through transformation,...

This month we are welcoming the fire energy of Beltane, a pagan tradition celebrating the onset of Summer and the sun fueled growing...

As we rapidly approach the Vernal (Spring) Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, we can look to the abundant blossoming of nature to remind...

We recently had our first Plant Medicine retreat of the year in Mt. Shasta, recognized by many as the root chakra of the Earth.

Greetings, Family, and Happy New Year! If your year is off to the same start mine has been, then it may seem as if January has been going...