Sharing my story is a way of connecting to OUR stories, how we see, feel and live life in different ways at different times. When times are hard and we are brought to a place of breaking, how can the connections to journey work offer a safe place to land and discover how to bring […]
Archive | Symbolism & Poetics
Summer Solstice
Invite Summer Solstice to meet you and inspire you. Solstice: The sun stands still on this longest day, the sunrise stretches into our awareness, lavender dawn seems to shift sooner as the light begin to glow on the horizon and the light of the sun meets the edge of the moon. Although we feel midsummer stretch out in front […]
Spring Entering | A Guided Journey
Spring Equinox, in the Northern Hemisphere, moves us into the light, a threshold when night and day are held in balance and our energies turn back toward the light. The equinox is tomorrow and I am feeling the momentum of rising energy, after a time of seeking balance and restoring equilibrium. Where are you feeling along the edges… […]
Dreaming and the Creative Process
Dreaming is a powerful connective conduit to the creative process. I was exposed, early in my training, to indigenous ways of knowing and shamanic dreaming traditions within Native American, Hawaiian, Saami, and Celtic tribes which are aligned with gathering and interpreting messages, symbols and healing stories over time. Based on my own experience, and my work with others, dreaming is […]
Engaging Art as a Journey
I was invited this month to be part of a wonderful gathering of artists where we got a chance to create together and have some brilliant conversations! My creative process was influenced by some recent journeys – just having returned from my annual Goddess Retreat where we, a circle of women, explored the earthy body while connecting with sacred […]
Archetypal Energies of the Healer
Exploring the qualities and energies of the Healer as a universal archetype is like embarking on a very long sea voyage. An odyssey that moves us past the edges of our oceans, through time and space, into a flickering cosmos of moving images where life, light and darkness swirl. Like spiral galaxies gathering all of […]
Narrative Poetry and Art
This poem is an unfolding narrative that emerged spontaneously as I was working with several pieces of art that were lying around my studio space. When I am gathering and breathing into something new, it is valuable to find words that allow me to feel more deeply what I am seeking and finding. A narrative poem can be a new […]
Mythic Rivers: Creative Expression and Embodiment (Part 2)
The symbol of water invites us to listen. We listen with our water bodies and align our breath with stillness so that we can hear the call of the waters. We listen through our emotions, as feelings flow we ride the waves of stormy seas and find our way into new territories. We feel the effect […]
Mythic Rivers: The Symbolic Language of Water (Part 1)
We know our sacred waters, we dwell within them and feel them from the inside out and the outside in. The waters within our bodies touch the waters of this world, connecting form to form and flow to flow. Our tears, like dousing rods move us and help us to find our way through grief. We […]
Life Unfolds: Visioning and Visual Narrative
Your visual narrative is an unfolding story, knowing who you have been and who you are can help you to choose who you will be, as you journey. This is an active happening. Visual narrative, whether in art making, image based process, intuitive traveling or dreaming, is all visioning and not separate from experience. It is experience. Visioning is active. Story […]
Cat Caracelo, M.A. works internationally with individuals and groups, guiding and supporting others through transformative process, depth coaching and conscious life design.