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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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All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
– Blaise Pascal
Now, in the week of Imbolc, a time of introspection, dedication and initiation, we receive our second ever visit from the Hermit. The Hermit is a powerful card about going within oneself, and listening deeply regarding the truths [...]
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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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I Am the World
by Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866 – 1918)
I am the song, that rests upon the cloud;
I am the sun;
I am the dawn, the day, the hiding shroud,
When dusk is done.
I am the changing colours of the tree;
The flower uncurled;
I am the melancholy of the sea;
I am the world.
The other souls that, passing in [...]
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
This week, we welcome the powerful Major [...]
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The Chariot
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first.
– Harry Truman
For the first time in all these years of my posts, we are visited by The Chariot. How perfect that it appears this week, as we enter the time [...]
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The EmpressWhat could be a more perfect response to last week’s deep journeys with Death? This week we welcome the appearance of She of fertility, birthing and lushest creation.
And I really can’t think of a better way to meditate upon the Empress this week than to share this, particularly since we are, in fact, blessed [...]
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DeathDeath don’t have no mercy in this land.– Rev. Gary Davis (1896-1972)And so, this week, Death comes calling. Personally, I have spent the last three weeks sitting with Death – two deaths that have broken my heart. Of all the cards that could have spoken to us this week, it is the last I wish [...]
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Welcome to our honored guest blogger today – acclaimed artist and author, Kris Waldherr.
I am so excited that the wonderful artist and author, Kris Waldherr, has generously offered to be my guest writer today. If you aren’t already familiar with the lush beauty of her Goddess Tarot, you need to be!
If our Raleigh-Durham Tarot Meetup [...]
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The MagicianImagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.– George Bernard Shaw
A powerful message appears for us this week, and one I think will especially resonate for those of us who are working with The Artist’s Way. [...]
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