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This Moon was known by our ancestors and indigenous people as the Snow Moon and the Hunger Moon, as it comes in this most lean and wintry time of year.
This is the last Full Moon before the Solar New Year, which arrives at the Spring Equinox. Many cultures and traditions celebrate around the time of [...]
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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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Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.
– Marsha Norman (American playwright)
While it is true that the real artist’s adventure begins with our being able to admit to our inner dream, it is also true that we can almost instantly react with resistance to it.
Julia writes, “This resistance is really very [...]
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For the 3rd year, I am delighted and honored to join in the ever-growing Brigid Poetry Slam. Throughout the blogosphere, everyone is invited to post poetry in honor of blessed Brigid, Goddess of Poetry on Her holy day.
My contribution today is a beautiful selection that my sister used for an art piece she made for [...]
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Fire of dawn-light in Her hair,
Fire flows like milk from Her hands.
Fire of bright promise in Her springing step,
Fire of the flame in Her eyes.
A blessing on Your hearthfire,
On Your gift of words,
On the brightness of Your sacred body,
A blessing on Your flame.
– Cait Johnson
Blessings for this cross-quarter holiday of Imbolc (which is also Lughnassadh [...]
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There, at the foot of the tree, belonging to no man,
A silver apple falls.
There, amongst the branches, the mother sits.
Weaver of dreams against the weft of the wood,
Insight falls like gentle rain on a moon-bathed garden.
– Song to Hecate, by Alison Jones
Now we make ready for the great festival of Imbolc, sometimes called Candlemas or [...]
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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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The Goddess Who Created This Passing World
by Alice Notley
from Selected Poems (Talisman House © 1993)
The Goddess who created this passing world
Said Let there be lightbulbs & liquefaction
Life spilled out onto the street, colors whirled
Cars & the variously shod feet were born
And the past & future & I born too
Light as airmail paper away she flew
To [...]
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Oh Goddess Mother
You are the mystery of Night
Your radiant shine is the Day
Infinite realms cascade within You
Abundance is Your essence of Being
Blessings flow from You Limitlessly
Your Universe is harmony and tension in Balance
Within each of us, You are Alive.
– Abby Willowroot © 1998
Before we resume the final stretch of our year and a day with [...]
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