Poetry for a Saturday in Winter

January 28, 2012

The Gardener of Eden from Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996 by James Broughton (1913-1999) I am the old dreamer who never sleeps I am timekeeper of the timeless dance I preserve the long rhythms of the earth and fertilize the rounds of desire In my evergreen arboretum I raise flowering hopes for the [...]

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Beginning a Year of Celebration

January 27, 2012

With the New Moon and the beginning of the Year of the Water Dragon, I am launching a year of celebrations, in honor of it being my fortieth anniversary with the Tarot. I bought the deck I featured on Wednesday back in 1972, and it was true love from then on. I’d had a fling [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Celebrating 40 Years: My Original 1972 Deck

January 25, 2012

 

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Tarot Card of the Week: January 23-29, 2012 – Seven of Cups

January 23, 2012

Blessings of the New Moon in Aquarius! Gung Hay Fat Choy – Happy New Year! We welcome the Year of the Water Dragon! (and Happy Birthday to my favorite Aquarian in all the world!)   I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and [...]

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Preparing for a Powerful Aquarius New Moon

January 22, 2012

How is your New Year going?  Have your good intentions slipped a little?  Wishing you could get a new start now, instead of on the tail end of holiday exhaustion?  Well, your wish is granted!  It’s New Year’s Eve, again! Tonight, in the wee hours of 2:39 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time), Jan. 23, we celebrate [...]

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Happy Birthday, Aquarius!

January 20, 2012

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sun in Aquarius Happy Birthday to all the free spirits and visionaries of this iconoclastic sign, for they are pointing the way to the turning of the Age for us all. Aquarians are true originals. They love to think outside [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week: January 16-22, 2012 – The World

January 16, 2012

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world; The heart has its beaches, its homeland and thoughts of its own. Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings; The heart has its seasons, its evenings and songs of its own. ~ Eyes of the World, by [...]

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Sunday Poetry – The Spirit Likes to Dress Up

January 15, 2012

Poem (the spirit likes to dress up) by Mary Oliver  The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes, shoulders, and all the rest at night in the black branches, in the morning in the blue branches of the world. It could float, of course, but would rather plumb rough matter. Airy [...]

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Save Our Internet. Really.

January 14, 2012

Maybe you’ve already heard about this.. Maybe you don’t think it’s that important, or people are exaggerating. But it is true.  The access to the Internet that we love and take for granted is threatened in ways absolutely unprecedented.  Your urgent action is needed. PROTECT-IP is yet another bill whose name makes it sound like [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Eagles At Our Local Jordan Lake

January 11, 2012

UPDATE only a few hours after my original post:

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