welcome to this wellspring of love stories.
Hello, I’m Kate. I am a plant tender, a moon poet, star listener, soil devotee, and apprentice to the coyotes, clouds, songbirds, stones and the mystical human heart. I live, work, garden and wander from here in the high mountains of northern New Mexico.
The animate personality that lives in soil is one of my primary guides for understanding the hidden gifts that humans bring to this planet. Some people call these soil personalities gnomes- the name we call them is not so important, so much as our remembering of every aspect of our world as alive, conscious, and contributing something precious to the wild community of Earth.
The writings, poetry, inquiries and invitations I get to share here are part of my own unraveling and re-spinning of my relationship with the world. The more I have befriended the soil, studied the many different kinds of wind, and grown thousands upon thousands of flowers over the years, the more this one simple truth reveals itself: life on Earth is all about relationship. How we relate to the world around us in our own distinct way, and how we then allow ourselves to be moved by the world in return.
I dream of a collective ecological awakening that germinates from the human heart— where we remember how to hear and honor the voices of the other-than-human beings who share this planet with us. Where we reclaim our place in the web of kinship with everything. My dream is for us to slow down to the pace of the moon. To the thrum of moss growing. To the chant of your own heartbeat.
The heart of Gaia is a wild invisible sanctuary for exploring this mysterious love story of life on Earth. This is a place for feeling the texture of your own deepest longing. A place for remembering how to listen to the stones. A gentle place for your heart to unfold.
I plan on sending new thoughts/writings to all subscribers around once a month, but it could be more or less depending on my personal process, the state of the world, the phase of the moon, etc.
Paid Subscriptions:
The Dark Moon Letters: you will have the opportunity to receive my handmade, printed Dark Moon Letters by real mail, which are sent out quarterly at each solstice and equinox. You can read more about them here (instructions are also sent as soon as you sign up as a paid subscriber).
access to all pay-walled content, which often includes more personal shares and practices. There will be surprises like audio contemplations, recipes and love notes along the way.
offered free to the BIPOC community, just send an email to kategardinerclearlight@gmail.com
Thank you so much for being here. It is a wild and precious gift to get to share what I love with you, and to feel supported by this community.
