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From my friend, renowned astrologer Lynn Hayes today:
This Full Moon will be a very interesting event – so interesting that it’s getting its own radio show entitled “Fire and the Full Moon.” It’s not only a powerful Moon astrologically, but it’s at perigee, meaning it’s at its closest proximity to the Earth. This [...]
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
– William Shakespeare
In this tenth chapter, we are Recovering a Sense of Self-Protection. Lo and behold – turns out that some of the most necessary self-protection we need is from ourselves!
So we are gently, but honestly examining the last stronghold of our most volatile, toxic-to-our-art habits. [...]
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The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid.
– Richard Bach
We’ve been examining how we block our creativity by using deeply rooted behaviors of self-sabotage and distraction. As soon as our artistic process starts to hum, [...]
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
– Erma Bombeck
Even as the end is almost in sight for our Artist’s Way journey, we arrive at some of the toughest final barriers to our recovery. [...]
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Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
– Marianne Williamson
The Moon reached Her fullness this morning at 2:30 am, Dec. 2nd, Eastern time (or 7:30 am UTC; or 11:30 pm last night, December 1st, if you’re in [...]
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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
– Exodus 22:18
On this day in 1985, the American House and Senate dropped the “Helms amendment,” which would have barred the IRS from granting tax-exempt status to groups that promote Witchcraft. And on this day in 1998, only eleven years ago, the Vatican finally took responsibility for the [...]
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Solitude, Outer Hebrides © Pamela BoneEmpty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty hearts can do that. — Norman Vincent Peale
Can I confess something to you? I have to admit I am having a little difficulty psyching myself up to come here and write about this, this week. Like many of you [...]
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
Welcome back, as we travel some of the darker pathways of Chapter Eight, Recovering a Sense of Strength. How have you been doing? Were you able to work with some of the challenges from last week, specifically any teachers or [...]
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We have no friends. We have no enemies. We have only teachers. — Anonymous proverb
As we begin to explore our artistic yearnings, we are going to run into challenges and difficulties. Because we are “in recovery,” our tender egos can easily want to abandon everything and send our artist self back into hiding again.
Don’t let [...]
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We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.– Susan Jeffers
We have arrived at the end of Chapter Seven and will be doing some exercises to celebrate and solidify our work here. This chapter has been about re-establishing our personal, intimate sense of [...]
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