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Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.
– Italo Calvino (Journalist and writer, 1923-1985)
The ego trip of pursuing ART, with a capital A is just another trap which is bound, sooner [...]
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The Children of Nut – Part Two
© Dan Furst
From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010.
As so often happens in the world’s history and myths, the trickster who knows how to make the game playful can accomplish results that elude the mightiest warriors and the most patient negotiators.
– Dan Furst
We’re clearly playing a similar [...]
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May the Graces Bless Us with a
Joyful New Beginning!
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Take out, then take in:
Bad luck will begin.
Take in, then take out:
Good luck comes about.
Blessings of the Year of the Empress – the fertile, Great Mother energy of the Tarot. I’ll be writing much more about what this means in the coming week.
But meantime, today [...]
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Look in the mirror. This is who you are going to be working for from now on.
– Carol Bridges
With the great turning tide of the calendar year, moving into the next decade of the new millennium, this is a fortuitous time to make profound changes, turn our lives in brand new directions, and set [...]
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I am offering an encore of this post of mine from last year. I hope it will inspire you, whatever your beliefs may be, for it is a powerful spell of transformation and abundance. It has been my own tradition on Christmas Eve for many years. Enjoy! – Beth
We cannot do great things on this [...]
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PRAISE SONG
by Barbara Crooker
from Radiance
Praise the light of late November,
the thin sunlight that goes deep in the bones.
Praise the crows chattering in the oak trees;
though they are clothed in night, they do not
despair. Praise what little there’s left:
the small boats of milkweed pods, husks, hulls,
shells, the architecture of trees. Praise the meadow
of dried weeds: yarrow, [...]
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Welcome to our honored guest blogger today – acclaimed artist and author, Kris Waldherr.
I am so excited that the wonderful artist and author, Kris Waldherr, has generously offered to be my guest writer today. If you aren’t already familiar with the lush beauty of her Goddess Tarot, you need to be!
If our Raleigh-Durham Tarot Meetup [...]
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Speaking of money, prosperity and so on — can you spare twenty one entertaining minutes that could help save you money, and help save the Earth, too?
(Please be patient if it takes a few minutes to start..It’s acting a bit flaky, but [...]
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. — Kin Hubbard, American humorist (1868-1930)
Today we have another exercise as we come to the conclusion of Chapter Six: Recovering a Sense of Abundance. It’s a fill-in-the-blank exercise that invites us to examine some of our own attitudes [...]
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Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play. – Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
I love that so many of you have already made a commitment to creating a creative space where you can unleash your artist self freely. Our environment speaks to us constantly about where our priorities are, and [...]
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