From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Feed Your Hungry Artist

by Beth on July 31, 2009

What we really want to do is what we’re meant to do.– Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way Beginning to cooperate with the abundance that surrounds you and wants to guide you is a critical step towards being in the creative flow. It is also one of the most toxic, fear-distorted areas in our culture, and [...]

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The Real Secret

by Beth on July 30, 2009

Emergence, by Ann Beeching ©We’Moon 2009, At the CrossroadsWhat does “prosperity” mean when we, as a civilization, are engaged in what can only be seen as a sustained effort to destroy ourselves and our habitat? That is the question I think needs to be asked.– James French, guest essayist, The Wild Hunt As we’re grappling [...]

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Extravagant Desires

by Beth on July 29, 2009

Money will come when you are doing the right thing.– Mike Phillips While we theoretically may be on board with the idea of a bountiful, generous Divinity, when it comes to our own lives, many of us squeeze ourselves into tiny boxes, hoping to just scrape by without incident. After all, that’s life, right? Yet [...]

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Immanent Abundance

by Beth on July 28, 2009

Goddess Wheel – Lammas © Wendy AndrewMoney is God in action. — Raymond Charles Barker We have been examining our core beliefs about the nature of wealth, the meaning of money and what we assume about our own personal relationship with whatever abundance is available. We have been led to believe, by the self-serving powers [...]

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The Five of PentaclesIf you are going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill It’s interesting that after last week’s Six, we now step back to the Five of Pentacles — a card that is rarely welcome, and certainly not this week, when we celebrate Lughnasadh – the first harvest. But here it is and [...]

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Sunday Poetry

by Beth on July 26, 2009

A Moment’s Indulgencefrom Gitanjaliby Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by thy side. The worksthat I have in hand I will finish afterwards. Away from the sight of thy face my heart knows no rest norrespite, and my work becomes an endless toil in a shoreless seaof toil. Today the [...]

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Saturday Video for Fun

by Beth on July 25, 2009

The sound is a bit muddy, but I hope you’ll enjoy!

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A Brief History of the Tarot

by Beth on July 24, 2009

A bit of entertainment while I am out of town. Pretty accurate, too! By the way, that last bit at the end? I’m not hard to find at all! Enjoy!

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We Interrupt This Programming

by Beth on July 23, 2009

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. — Norman MacEwan What if we were to question the basic premise we’ve all learned since (at least) grade school, that competition and survival are the driving forces in the biosphere? What if that isn’t the whole picture, [...]

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Happy Birthday, Leo!

by Beth on July 22, 2009

(Slightly belated, my apologies, dearest Leo!) Leos, so the tradition goes, are “on” 24 hours a day, showing off and behaving like the sexy superstars they often are. Of course, there really is more to Leo than this cartoonish version. Astrologer Jon Cainer notes that while it is true that Leos can be a bit [...]

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