Daystar Ranch

DayStar Ranch is a non profit, waiting to be put to work when a team is interested. Meantime, I am working through my friend's Foundation; Roughout Ranch Foundation to present my unique and powerful Authenticity Workshops.

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We have found it fun to add Virtues to our Horse Encounters, and the program is called Twelve Horse-Powered Virtues! Very powerful, and horses too!

Restoring the Soul of Humanity Talk given by Ms. Linda Kavelin-Popov on May 28, 2022.Bestselling author, Linda Kavelin-Popov is an international speaker on personal and global transformati...

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch. Check out what is happening now to build healthy communities, at Roughout Ranch.

Artwork by Brenna Quinlan

One way to promote this learning is what we are doing with our Horse Encounters and especially with our Authenticity Workshops. The foundation of our courses, "Conscious Connection and Encouraging Engagement" is a set of 12 sessions with a small group and the horses. Very affordable and customized to the group we have on each day. Registration is done by Roughout Ranch and soon, we can bring our sessions to other places too.

"The ancient Irish had a saying: 'You don't give a man a weapon until you've taught him how to dance.' In other words, a different kind of learning is required before someone can be truly trusted with social power and potent things like weapons. If a man does not know the wounds of his own soul, he can deny not just his own pain, but also be unmoved by the suffering of other people. More than that, he will tend to put his wound onto others. He may only be able to see the wound that secretly troubles him when he forcefully projects it into someone else, in forms of abuse or violence.

So in the old culture-making idea, in order to properly bear arms a person must first become disarmed, as in becoming vulnerable and connected to something meaningful and supportive of life. The idea of forging the temperament of young men took precedence over the idea of simply giving them weapons at a certain age. The tempering of the souls involved discovering what kind of anger each might carry and learning about the inner line where anger turned into blind rage. Becoming tempered also meant immersing in the sorrow of one's life and thereby being in touch with the grief of the world."

- Michael Meade