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For the 3rd year, I am delighted and honored to join in the ever-growing Brigid Poetry Slam. Throughout the blogosphere, everyone is invited to post poetry in honor of blessed Brigid, Goddess of Poetry on Her holy day.
My contribution today is a beautiful selection that my sister used for an art piece she made for [...]
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Join together beneath the mistletoe.
By the holy oak whereon it grows.
Seven Druids dance in seven time.
Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming.
Ring out these bells.
Ring out, ring Solstice bells.
Ring Solstice bells.
– Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull ©1977
The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The precise moment of the [...]
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Dark of the Moon
New beginnings
Dark of the Moon
Plant a seed tonight
Dark of the Moon
What we envision
Will come to be
By the Full Moon’s light.
There is really only one thing that I hope you will weave into your magic spells on this New Moon. Saving life as we know it on our Earth.
Period.
Now is the time. [...]
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Let our intention be that we will shine with the Light of peace and wisdom. Let our Light awaken what is best in our human family and help us to restore truth, honor, compassion, balance, beauty, and good will among all beings. Let the Light of Peace guide our hearts and hands to act [...]
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Be really whole
And all things will come to you.
– Lao-tzu
Today, we finish up the exercises from Chapter Nine, “Recovering a Sense of Compassion.” I hope that this chapter truly has opened up some of your deepest blocks, so that compassion and love for your inner creator are unleashed to flood through your spirit.
How did you [...]
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adaptation found from original triptychShaman by Martha RuppertWhen it all seems impossible, focus on the point in front of you. Follow it like a hawk and forget everything else. — Carlos CastanedaThis week, we are finishing up Chapter Eight, Recovering a Sense of Strength. In fact, the only work left in this chapter is a [...]
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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. — Abraham Lincoln
Until not too long [...]
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Lugh © Mickie MuellerAll the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise, not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.– John Adams, in a letter to Thomas JeffersonIn order to heal the relationship between [...]
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Today is the Full Moon with the Sun in the sign of Cancer, and the Moon in Capricorn (the Full Moon is always in the sign opposite where the Sun is). And, as it happens, it is the first of [...]
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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.
How divine! Now, with the New Moon in Taurus, we can connect to a powerful upsurge of magic. Astrologer Lynn Hayes writes of this Moon, “We are flooded with new ideas and [...]
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