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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
For the third week, we get a visit from the Cups suit. But this time, we [...]
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When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be — I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into [...]
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These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat..
– Al Stewart
According to the Chinese Zodiac, today is the beginning of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Tiger. The Tiger is the third sign in the cycle of Chinese zodiac, which consists of twelve [...]
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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: the divine, the [...]
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Fame, doin’ it for the fame
‘Cause we wanna live the life
Of the rich and famous
Fame, doin’ it for the fame
‘Cause we gotta taste for champagne
And endless fortune…
– Lady GaGa
I am so glad that many of you had a light bulb moment from Sunday’s video. I kept thinking of so many of my favorite writers, [...]
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I am offering an encore of this post of mine from last year. I hope it will inspire you, whatever your beliefs may be, for it is a powerful spell of transformation and abundance. It has been my own tradition on Christmas Eve for many years. Enjoy! – Beth
We cannot do great things on this [...]
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Nine of Cups
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846–1916)
What an profound card for this week of Yuletide! I just couldn’t help but tinker a little bit with it. If you must see what the real Rider-Waite-Smith card looks like, you can go here.
Around the [...]
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Share water. Never thirst.
– Valentine Michael Smith
from Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Today is the third Sun-day of our group spell/prayer/meditation, as we prepare to welcome the rebirth of the Solstice Light! If you are just now joining us, it does not matter if you missed out on the last two Sun [...]
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I don’t want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
– Diane Ackerman
We are coming to the end of Chapter Nine, which has been about Recovering a Sense of Compassion for our [...]
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Will We Open the Heavens
By Robin Williamson
Let me be where love is born
to sail upon a scallop shell
the way no hair of a thought is disturbed
and the sight is still
as moonlight clasps each leaf
of a tree of dust
until it knows it is alive
and lives to be green
tell me will we open the heavens
and disperse ourselves [...]
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