This ceremony was enacted for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Alamosa, Colorado and the article appeared on the blog, "Postcards from Shamans", January 2019. The word “ceremony” in its original Latin form is “awe”. Repeated behaviors related to...
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Winter Ross
Winter Ross
Winter Ross is an eco-feminist artist, writer, environmental activist, mental health advocate and shamanic practitioner.
She studied painting at Hartford Art School and received a BFA in Communications Design and Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design. Winter was an MFA candidate in printmaking when her fabric art, a medium embraced by many second-wave artists, began to receive recognition.
A long career as a graphic designer included Rocky Mountain PBS. She has also held numerous artist-in-residence, teaching and museum positions and received grants for independent curatorial projects which highlight environmental issues or explore visionary and spiritual themes.
Winter lives in Taos, New Mexico and Crestone, Colorado. Same bioregion. Both magical.
Websites: www.ceremonialvisions.com and www.wintersweb.journoportfolio.com
Walking the Edge of Cultural Appropriation
The young man was goth-like, pale and pimply, dressed in a long black coat and lecturing to a circle of listeners at an Earth First! gathering in the western wilderness. The subject of his talk was the cultural appropriation of earth-based spiritual traditions. He had...

