Practical Wisdom for Extraordinary Living
Sunflower Mandala © Lloyd GrotjanPanthea(an excerpt) by Oscar Wilde We are resolved into the supreme air,We are made one with what we touch and see,With our heart’s blood each crimson sun is fair,With our young lives each spring-impassioned treeFlames into green, the wildest beasts that rangeThe moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The Devil The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. – Albert Einstein How fascinating that we go straight from the Lovers last week to the Devil this week! As I mentioned last week, the two cards are intimately connected [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
It’s good to be just plain happy, it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. — Henry Miller Bliss is so many [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The Lovers – © Sharon RussellSweet days of SummerThe jasmine’s in bloom.July is dressed up and playing her tune…Seals and Crofts – Summer Breeze What is bliss? What exactly, for that matter, is pleasure? James Olds was the chemist who first located the brain’s pleasure center, while he was experimenting with rats. He dubbed it [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Let us roll all our strength, and allOur sweetness, up into one ball;And tear our pleasures with rough strifeThorough the iron gates of life.Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.from To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (1681) What perfect synchronicity! Now, in the height of the fertile, [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The LoversI am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars.You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.Even so, you have always been connected to me.Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.I [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Every word of every tongue isLove telling a story to her own ears.Every thought in every mind,She whispers a secret to her own Self.Every vision in every eye,She shows her beauty to her own sight.Every smile on every face,She reveals her own joy for herself to enjoy. -– Fakhruddin Iraqi (1213 – 1289 C.E.) When [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are — if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.– Katherine Mansfield Today’s little bit of magic is three-fold. First, I am glad to let you know that the Mercury retrograde that has possibly been playing havoc [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The Ace of Wands Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. — Henry David Thoreau We draw closer to the zenith of the Light [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Where you'll find a little bit of Magic every day!
Including: Goddess Sundays; the Monday Tarot Card of the Week; Wordless Wednesdays; Saturday Inspiration; a year long celebration of my 40th Anniversary as a Tarot reader; and much more!
It's a busy, possibly challenging astrological week, but The Chariot shows the way forward.
... and support Cherry Hill Pagan Seminary.
