by Beth on August 25, 2011
After the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~ Italian proverb Besides taking some much-needed retreat and Mercury retrograde time, I admit I have been procrastinating on our topic for August, which is the Eighth House. With so many Plutonic challenges cropping up around us every day, is it [...]
by Beth on January 17, 2010
The Children of Nut – Part Two © Dan Furst From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010. As so often happens in the world’s history and myths, the trickster who knows how to make the game playful can accomplish results that elude the mightiest warriors and the most patient negotiators. – Dan Furst We’re [...]
Emergence, by Ann Beeching ©We’Moon 2009, At the CrossroadsWhat does “prosperity” mean when we, as a civilization, are engaged in what can only be seen as a sustained effort to destroy ourselves and our habitat? That is the question I think needs to be asked.– James French, guest essayist, The Wild Hunt As we’re grappling [...]
Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light. The [Divine Source] is friendly to you and is more anxious to give you what you want than you are to get it. — from The Science of Getting Rich, by [...]
I want to sing like birds singNot worrying who hears orWhat they think.– Rumi I really love how many of you decided to color outside the lines on our last exercise, and add an eleventh question, so that it would not end by focusing on what makes us sad! Well done! As we wind down [...]
Leap of Faith © C.J. BradfordThere is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker As I mentioned yesterday, Julia poses some tough questions about our self-destructive shadow side, which we may find smack in our way at this point. She explains, [...]
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. — Eileen Caddy Welcome back. I hope you’ve been feeding your Artist Self many kinds of sensual treats, and finding a more sustainable way to fold reading into your life without it upstaging [...]
by Beth on August 22, 2008
Virgo – from the zodiac window at Chartres CathedralDo not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. — Mother Theresa, spoken like the true Virgo she was Today, the Sun enters the sign of Virgo, and so we enter into, according to some traditions, the Month of Isis, a time of the creative [...]
He saw the garden of Eden…and…came to a tall, dark tree..and told to go up…near the top of tree a beautiful woman, like the Goddess of Life…gave him a rose.– W. B. Yeats Like the Rosicrucians, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn used the rosy cross as a representative symbol. They also had a [...]
Contemplate through Me [the Divine Mind], the world and consider its beauty … See that all things are full of light. See the earth, settled in the midst of all, the great nurse who nourishes all earthly creatures, All is full of Soul, and all beings are in movement.– Corpus HermeticaWe continue our journey through [...]