Springtime in Year of the Fire Horse
Chances are something inside you is looking for a more fully emboldened and embodied way to live this precious life you have. I warmly welcome you with that intention and invite you to also consider what bounty you long to enjoy. Spring is the opportune time of year to activate and plant your intentions as seeds, directly into the fertile soil of your life. The Here and Now in which we live is where we dream, hope for, plan, take action, and experience their eventual harvest. Spring lures us out of hibernation and into purposeful action, lending its abundance of energy, vitality, and hope: all with great generosity! This year, the Fire Horse energy grants us plenty of heart centered relational kindling to fuel the way.
The famous biblical wisdom, “Faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead,” reminds us that inspired action is the key to unlocking our gifts.
My seed intentions for Cause Wellbeing (or how faith + Qi + commitment to the “gong” brings about new beginnings)
“The day will come when, after harnessing the space, the wind, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the first time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ
As Cause Wellbeing’s website is launched into its more public sphere in this spring of 2026, I share its inspired beginnings, and anticipate with you its flourish. For the last couple of years I have been quietly working with folks near and far to help light the flame that Teilhard de Chardin so aptly describes above, in hopes of igniting each healing journey into a more robust endeavor capable of producing harvest!
Very early in my young life I had visions watching the Montana skies that both inspired and shaped my own spiritual questing and work in the world. During the magical sunset hour, it was easy to dream that the clouds stretched out over our western mountains were fjords resting in the calm waters (actually skies) of brilliant golden, amber, crimson and peachy colored havens. I found great consolation from stressful family discord during those times. Both inspired and eased by nature and the heavens, I then longed to find ways to share such vital reprieve with others.
A second vision in my late teen years had to do with seeing a cloud in the same Montana skies take form into a perfectly shaped fetus, with its umbilical cord resting in the mid-day bright and spacious blue. It was a clear enough sign for me: then and there I determined I must become a mid-wife and entered into a pre-nursing program at the University of Montana. My career pathway had begun!
Life progressed over the next decade into marriage, raising children, and finding my feet in the nursing profession. One day at the bed sides of several people who were dying on hospice care, families were understandably asking “Dea, how long will this take?” Right in the midst of doing their human utmost to be present in waves of both love and grief, I realized I had indeed become a mid-wife. It was unlike how I thought it would occur, as here I was assisting people at the end-of-life, into the next unknown. To serve people during this kind of time, inevitably means recognizing the preciousness of this very moment, of love, and of being able to come together in its presence for however long we have, as imperfect as we may think we and the circumstance are.
During those years, Life had very specifically steered me to this form of sacred midwifery, and I found my calling. That initial Montana-given longing to “share reprieve,” eventually led to new beginnings and to working along side those who come calling for just such support. End-of-life midwifery, Chinese medicine, Qi Gong, and the Holy Spirit all teamed up in my heart to offer small scale individual support for those ready to plant intentions for healing in the blessed soil of their own lives.
Let’s get to work! The “gong” of Qi Gong means to become skillful at cultivating vital, life force energy. Like gardeners in Springtime eager to get started, I look forward to hearing from you.