What’s in Your Garden? I love what I do. I feel blessed and guided on a regular basis…and…I too need time and space to NOTICE, CULTIVATE and to GATHER what is waiting for me…just outside my normal every day vision. This is both a skill and a practice. Each time I offer something to …
by Shannon Simonelli 
CATCHING UP WITH MYSELF Down Time & Breathing Room I have taken the past couple of days to catch up with my life…to catch up with myself. Lately it seems I have been running from one thing to the next. Long lists of tasks…so many things to take care of, details to attend to and …
by Shannon Simonelli 
Happy Solar New Year to YOU! The Solar Year has begun anew! Solstice 2019…I find myself way more eggar to focus towards new beginnings this year than many – I do, in general, like to honor the dark, lean into resting and deep renewal. I generally feel we rush towards the light as a …
by Shannon Simonelli 
Autumn…Fall. Really the perfect word for this season and the many invitations to FALL – to let go, that this time of year naturally brings. It seems to me we are in a major cycle of death and endings. That we are all having our feet held to the fire in some way. Being required …
by Shannon Simonelli 
See Part 1 here. We tend to be binary creatures. Do we like “this” or “that”? Is “this” the safest way or is “that”? Our brains learn through binary processes, and our ego tends to process this way as well. Polarity. Are we included or excluded, cool or a dork, healthy or ill? On …
by Shannon Simonelli 
Let’s first define the Imaginal: Henry Corbin post dated Carl Jung, and coined the term Imaginal from his work as an interpreter of Islamic thought and poetry. Corbin describes the Imaginal Realm (mundus imaginalis) as holding images, stories, dream figures, embodied imagery and movements that come to us from some dimension beyond our rational intellectual …
by Shannon Simonelli 
Part 1 of 2 written for the Jung Society of Utah Active Imagination & The Transcendent Function: These are big concepts with whole books written about them. Jung and others have given us the gift of articulating them throughout their life work, explicating meaning and filling out the picture of these concepts. I like …
by Shannon Simonelli 
Whacked in the Face by Life. I fell off my bike. I have never fallen like this in my life as an active person and it has brought me face to face with my vulnerability. Literally. My face into the blacktop – feet still on the pedals, bike between my legs vulnerability. Face-to-face with my …
by Shannon Simonelli 
Habits of Being. I am a couple of weeks into having Tuesday nights without the seasonal modules. The first week or so I found myself rattling around…not quite knowing what to ‘do’ with myself, feeling I was supposed to be somewhere! Ha! What a creature of habit I am. I have been working Tuesday nights …
by Shannon Simonelli