Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
No price is set on the lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer. — James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfall This week, we reach one of the major holidays of the year, when the Sun’s arcing path across our skies reaches its highest, or lowest point, depending on which hemisphere you [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Happy Aphrodite’s Day!Do you not see how mighty is the Goddess Aphrodite? She sows and gives that love from which all we upon this earth are born. – Empedocles ca. 490-430 BCE Instead of honoring the various Christian martyrs named St. Valentine on this date, let us celebrate what we REALLY want this day to [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Illustrious Kharites, mighty named, from Zeus descended, and Eunomia famed [Eurynome], Thalia and Aglaia fair and bright, and blest Euphrosyne, whom joys delight.– from The Hymns of Orpheus, translated by Thomas Taylor (1792) The Graces, also called the Charites (sometimes spelled Kharites), were three beautiful daughters of Zeus, the supreme God of ancient Greece. Their [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
And now ‘tis dark, and going I shall fall.’‘In night,’ quoth she, ‘desire sees best of all.’– from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare On July 27, we entered a phase in which the planet Venus went retrograde, an event that occurs only once every eighteen months, and this year in conjunction with stern Saturn’s [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
©2006 Oephebia TarotWhen you have only two pennies left in the world,buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.– Chinese proverb Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty embodies many of the qualities of the Maiden aspect of the Great Goddess. Not only does She teach us to revere our sacred [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Where you'll find a little bit of Magic every day!
Including: Goddess Sundays; the Monday Tarot Card of the Week; Wordless Wednesdays; Saturday Inspiration; a year long celebration of my 40th Anniversary as a Tarot reader; and much more!
It's a busy, possibly challenging astrological week, but The Chariot shows the way forward.
... and support Cherry Hill Pagan Seminary.
