Jennifer Watts

If you've been feeling the weight of world events lately – the political chaos, social division, environmental crisis, attacks on human rights – you might be wondering: what's the point of my personal transformation work when the world is burning? This is a fair question. And it's one I've wrestled with myself. Is focusing on my own healing and growth selfish when so much needs to change out there? But here's what I've come to understand: your personal transformation is not separate from...

The phoenix legend appears across cultures – the Egyptian Bennu bird, the Chinese Fenghuang, the Russian Firebird. But the core story remains the same: a magnificent bird builds its own funeral pyre, sets itself aflame, burns completely to ash, and rises renewed, reborn, more beautiful than before. What moves me most about this myth is that the phoenix doesn't fear the fire. It builds it. It participates willingly in its own death because it trusts completely in its rebirth. You are the...

When I first encountered images of the Hindu goddess Kali, I was terrified. She's depicted with dark blue or black skin, wild hair, a protruding tongue, wearing a garland of severed heads and a skirt of dismembered arms, dancing on the body of Shiva himself. In one hand she holds a sword dripping with blood, in another a severed head. This is not the gentle, nurturing Divine Feminine we're comfortable with in Western spirituality. This is not the soft goddess who whispers encouragement and...