Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
— Haruki Murakami
After our gifts of Grace and healing from the past couple of weeks, we are faced now with the Three of Swords. Since we so recently received it, you can read my more traditional interpretation here. But today, in part because less than ten minutes after [...]
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This encore post, is part two, from a series I wrote back in February, 2006.
Knowest thou
What solemn shores of crocus-coloured light,
Reared by the sunset in its realm of change,
Will mock the dream-lost isles that sirens ward?
–Clark Ashton Smith
Many of us are seeing the first welcome signs of Spring and one of the dearest of those [...]
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Another encore post, this time, part one of two that I wrote back in February, 2006.
Behold, this crocus is a withering flame…
– Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Barren Spring, 1870
The signs of Spring are becoming increasingly insistent and unmistakable. In my garden, purple and yellow crocuses are opening in the noon sun, before slipping back to sleep [...]
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These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat..
– Al Stewart
According to the Chinese Zodiac, today is the beginning of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Tiger. The Tiger is the third sign in the cycle of Chinese zodiac, which consists of twelve [...]
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The Children of Nut – Part One
© Dan Furst
From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010.
It’s Jump Time, as Jean Houston entitled her new book on Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change. As you know if you’re a regular reader of the UFC [And I urge you to become one! - B.], [...]
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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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Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850
Many thanks to Waverly FitzGerald, who is the source for much of today’s lore. Blessings to you, Waverly, for your faithful, invaluable service as a Priestess of [...]
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
– Alan Watts
We are now in the last week of the Year of Justice, poised before the first decade of the new millennium is gone forever and the next begins. And we are in a very magical time out of time. The Halcyon Days, [...]
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The Shortest Day
by Susan Cooper (author of The Dark is Rising)
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year [...]
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Join together beneath the mistletoe.
By the holy oak whereon it grows.
Seven Druids dance in seven time.
Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming.
Ring out these bells.
Ring out, ring Solstice bells.
Ring Solstice bells.
– Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull ©1977
The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The precise moment of the [...]
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