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What shakes the eye, but the invisible?
- Theodore Roethke
In this final chapter of The Artist’s Way, as her bon voyage gift to us, Julia offers a bouquet of ideas. When we begin to understand our creativity in terms of it being a sacred conversation between our Divinity and our human selves, she emphasizes the need [...]
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This is the Eve of the Winter Solstice.
This is the great celebration of Mother Night.
As far as we know, our ancestors did not have atomic clocks or satellites to help them dissect Time to the nanosecond. Instead, they had to figure by their keen observation, by dead reckoning, by the plants and animals, by [...]
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The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see – and to see we have only to look.
– Fra Giovanni Giocondo, 1433-1515 C.E.
We are now in the deepest darkness of the year, with Winter Solstice [...]
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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you which shall be the darkness of God.
– T.S. Elliot
We here in the Northern Hemisphere are in the deepest darkness of the year, with the arrival of yesterday’s New Moon and then the Winter Solstice less than a week away. At [...]
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Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
– Kahlil Gibran
Now as we in the Northern Hemisphere stand upon the threshold of Winter, embraced by the darkest of nights, we are visited this week by the Five of Cups. This [...]
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Although technically, the New Moon doesn’t occur until tomorrow, I invite you to begin to set your intention for it today. The Scorpio New Moon is always powerful, but this is a particularly intense astrological cycle. We are in unprecedented times.
I believe we are being called to come together in this Dark Moon time, through [...]
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There was a grove, immemorially inviolate,
Hidden from the air above by interlacing branches…
There fell fountain-streams,
There gloomy images of Gods
Stood guard, jutting, human-carven in tree-trunk shape…
– from De Bello Civilis by Lucan (39-65 C.E.)
As we approach the crossroads of the Old and the New Year at Samhain, we honor the coming of the ancient Dark [...]
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Let us not forget that this is the last day of the month, and so is sacred to the great Triple Goddess, Hecate. On this day, we honor the Her as Queen of the Night and the Goddess of Witches. Hecate is a protector of women, mighty advocate for the disenfranchised, and She who guards [...]
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Another world is not only possible,she is on her way. On a quiet day,I can hear her breathing.– Arundati RoyChange is upon us, dear ones. As has been foretold for decades by astrologers, shamans, indigenous peoples, and those attuned to non-ordinary communication channels, we are now seeing the structures that we have called “security” in [...]
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Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light.
This is an unusual New Moon, in what is certainly the most unusual of times. Not only is it the first New Moon of the Western New Year, and only one week [...]
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