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Happy Diwali!

by Beth on November 5, 2010

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 [...]

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Thanksgiving to the Goddess

by Beth on October 17, 2010

While things may seem fairly routine and quiet here in the Western world on this day, there are big celebrations happening amongst millions of people in other cultures. Today is the culmination of the ten day long festival of Navaratri.  It is among the most important festivals celebrated on the India sub-continent. In Northern India, [...]

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Happy Birthday, America

by Beth on July 4, 2010

Power to the People!  Use It or Lose It. The Fourth of July is when America celebrates its Independence Day.  Although the Bill of Rights came after the Declaration of Independence, it is truly the essence of what our new nation was created for. Amendment I – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment [...]

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Glory of the Day-Star, hail! Lifter of the Light, Burnisher of the Sky. Gifts of love to earth are bringing, Summer’s shimmer, dew’s delight. Dancing be the heart within us, Open be our souls to bliss, Courage vanquish every shadow, Greet Midsummer with a kiss. – Greeting to the Summer Solstice from Celtic Devotional – [...]

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Happy Aphrodite’s Day!

by Beth on February 14, 2010

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 be about: [...]

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Happy New Year!

by Beth on January 1, 2010

May the Graces Bless Us with a Joyful New Beginning! xx 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 [...]

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The Outgoing Tide

by Beth on December 26, 2009

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 [...]

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Joy to the world The Light is born Peace on Earth, Good will to all. Goddess rest, ye merry Gentlefolk. May our hearts be merry and bright. Blessings of the Season, Love all ways, — Beth

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Happy Diwali!

by Beth on October 17, 2009

“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 [...]

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The Page of PentaclesLife is a field of unlimited possibilities.– Deepak Chopra Once again, the Tarot shares its gift of perfect timing. With the appearance of the Page of Pentacles, we can expect that there will be important news about money, land, investments, and jobs. That’s not such a surprise these days. But I am [...]

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