July 2010

Wordless Wednesdays

by Beth on July 14, 2010

Thanks to your enthusiastic responses,  I’ve got a bunch of new orders to fill, so I’ll be making a fresh batch of Tarot Soul Card kits at my dining room table this morning. There are still  lots more herbies to pull out, but these wanted to be posed in a pretty picture for you!  Yes, [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week: July 12-18, 2010

by Beth on July 12, 2010

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction.  Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were [...]

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Dark of the Moon New beginnings Dark of the Moon Plant a seed tonight Dark of the Moon What we envision Will come to be by the Full Moon’s light. Nearly every month, on the New Moon, I post this little song that I learned years ago at Spiralheart Reclaiming’s Witchcamp.  Every New Moon is [...]

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The Great Turning

by Beth on July 10, 2010

A huge thanks to dear Joanna Powell Colbert for sharing this video on her own site, earlier this week. In it, the wonderful eco-philosopher Joanna Macy describes the importance of this moment in human history.  This is what I stand for in my life,  and what I know that each of you reading this is [...]

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Wordless Wednesdays

by Beth on July 7, 2010

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The Religion of Kindness

by Beth on July 6, 2010

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama Happy 75th Birthday today to His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. He was born on 6 July 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, in northeastern Tibet. When he was two, and named Lhamo Dhondup at [...]

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In summer, the song sings itself. – William Carlos Williams Once again, in this Year of the Empress, she appears as our card of the week.  And what a week this will be!  Of course, we are in the most lush season of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.  Summer is ripening, as full, fertile [...]

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Happy Birthday, America

by Beth on July 4, 2010

Power to the People!  Use It or Lose It. The Fourth of July is when America celebrates its Independence Day.  Although the Bill of Rights came after the Declaration of Independence, it is truly the essence of what our new nation was created for. Amendment I – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment [...]

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Summery Passions

by Beth on July 3, 2010

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. – Oliver Wendell Holmes We long to live passionate lives. There is a mega-industry that cranks out nothing but juicy [...]

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Welcoming July!

by Beth on July 1, 2010

The first of July is Canada Day, so to all our friends in the vast, beautiful lands to the north, Happy Birthday, Canada! But wait! There’s more! Rabbit! Rabbit! Old English folk wisdom reports that if you say, “Rabbit! Rabbit!” or “White hares!” the very first thing on the first day of the month, you [...]

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