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Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly
Into the mystic.
– Van Morrison
Another Eight this week, and a rare one, too. The Eight of Cups appears for the first time in about four years, bringing with it its many mysterious implications. In her classic work, Seventy [...]
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What shakes the eye, but the invisible?
- Theodore Roethke
In this final chapter of The Artist’s Way, as her bon voyage gift to us, Julia offers a bouquet of ideas. When we begin to understand our creativity in terms of it being a sacred conversation between our Divinity and our human selves, she emphasizes the need [...]
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Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
- Erich Fromm
First, thanks for your patience while I took a much-needed break over the Imbolc period. I know that I was, in some ways, not as available to you as usual, which may have been a bit disappointing [...]
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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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Excerpted from an article by Skye Thomas, based on Butterfly, by Norie Huddle
After a caterpillar buries itself inside its cocoon, it waits to morph into a butterfly. The caterpillar does not simply shrink a bit and sprout wings. Instead, it sort of disintegrates into a puddle of ooze within the cocoon. If [...]
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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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Six of Cups
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
– William Wordsworth
It is always interesting to see what the cards are going to tell us about a week when so many of us will be stepping outside of our ordinary routines. In the [...]
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As you may know, on weekends, I post words and wisdom from others, including videos, essays, poetry, and opinions of note. Today, inspired by the exquisite blog of Cate Kerr, I offer this excerpt from the recently deceased John Daido Loori, one of the first American Zen masters. He was founder of the Zen Mountain [...]
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The Six of Cups
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
– Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974)
This is an enigmatic card, to say the least. Many Tarot scholars interpret this [...]
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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. — Albus Dumbledore (via J. K. Rowling), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Somehow, I am not surprised to see the Seven of Cups make a somewhat rare appearance this week. With his back to us, we see [...]
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