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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 you be blessed with good fortune as long as Lord Ganesha’s trunk,wealth and prosperity as big as His stomach,happiness as sweet as His ladoos,and may your troubles be as small as His mouse.”– Traditional Diwali blessing
Diwali (also known as Divali or Deepavali) is celebrated starting today, and continuing for five consecutive days. Diwali [...]
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Bacchusby Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bring me wine, but wine which never grewIn the belly of the grape,Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching throughUnder the Andes to the Cape,Suffer no savor of the earth to scape.
Let its grapes the morn saluteFrom a nocturnal root,Which feels the acrid juiceOf Styx and Erebus;And turns the woe of Night,By [...]
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Goddess Wheel – Lammas © Wendy AndrewMoney is God in action. — Raymond Charles Barker
We have been examining our core beliefs about the nature of wealth, the meaning of money and what we assume about our own personal relationship with whatever abundance is available.
We have been led to believe, by the self-serving powers and institutions [...]
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Lugh © Mickie MuellerAll the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise, not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.– John Adams, in a letter to Thomas JeffersonIn order to heal the relationship between [...]
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And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.– William Shakespeare
Beltane, the counterpart to Samhain, which Pagans and Witches south of the Equator are now celebrating, is one of the Greater Wiccan Sabbats and is usually celebrated on May 1st. [...]
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A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.
If an omniscient, all-powerful Dad ignores your prayers, it’s taken personally. Hear only silence long enough, and you start wondering about his power. His fairness. His very existence.
But if a world mother doesn’t [...]
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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.
— Work of the Chariot, mentored by Daniel E. Bloxsom
No doubt about it – the anger that flares up when our artist self first re-awakens can be scary. To see [...]
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God Says Yes to Meby Kaylin Haughtfrom The Palm of Your Hand © 1995
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramaticAnd she said yesI asked her if it was okay to be shortAnd she said it sure isI asked her if I could wear nail polishOr not wear nail polishAnd she said honeyShe [...]
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Sai, of the Naruto anime series, by Masashi KishimotoWe have met the enemy, and he is us.– Pogo (Walt Kelly)
We’ve been examining the ways that the people in our intimate circles thwart our efforts and good intentions to be creative. But inevitably, we must take a long, honest look at how we derail ourselves. The [...]
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