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Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
– René Dubos (1901-1982. Environmentalist, microbiologist and creator of the slogan, “Think Globally, Act Locally.”)
As the Winter season begins to loosen its grip, we can prepare for Springtime energy by considering the impact of our home environment on our own energetic field. Our home is a template [...]
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While waiting for the Muse (or your suggestions) to inspire my next theme (if any!), I am offering some encore posts from past years. This was from January, 2007, but much of it still feels appropriate for now, as we transition from Winter to the first stirrings of Spring.
In this time of the element [...]
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This Moon was known by our ancestors and indigenous people as the Snow Moon and the Hunger Moon, as it comes in this most lean and wintry time of year.
This is the last Full Moon before the Solar New Year, which arrives at the Spring Equinox. Many cultures and traditions celebrate around the time of [...]
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This encore post, is part two, from a series I wrote back in February, 2006.
Knowest thou
What solemn shores of crocus-coloured light,
Reared by the sunset in its realm of change,
Will mock the dream-lost isles that sirens ward?
–Clark Ashton Smith
Many of us are seeing the first welcome signs of Spring and one of the dearest of those [...]
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Another encore post, this time, part one of two that I wrote back in February, 2006.
Behold, this crocus is a withering flame…
– Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Barren Spring, 1870
The signs of Spring are becoming increasingly insistent and unmistakable. In my garden, purple and yellow crocuses are opening in the noon sun, before slipping back to sleep [...]
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Fire of dawn-light in Her hair,
Fire flows like milk from Her hands.
Fire of bright promise in Her springing step,
Fire of the flame in Her eyes.
A blessing on Your hearthfire,
On Your gift of words,
On the brightness of Your sacred body,
A blessing on Your flame.
– Cait Johnson
Blessings for this cross-quarter holiday of Imbolc (which is also Lughnassadh [...]
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The Wind Sings Welcome in Early Spring by Carl Sandburg(For Paula)
The grip of the ice is gone now.The silvers chase purple.The purples tag silver.They let out their runnersHere where summer says to the lilies:“Wish and be wistful,Circle this wind-hunted, wind-sung water.”
Come along always, come along now.You for me, kiss me, pull me by the ear.Push [...]
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Lady in Field of Lilies, Octavio OcampoFlower God, God Of The Springby Robert Louis Stevenson
Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful,Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,Here I wander in AprilCold, grey-headed; and still to myHeart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer,Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant;Spring, flower-planter in meadows,Child-conductor in [...]
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The FoolTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.– Mark Twain
We welcome The Fool this week, only a week [...]
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For he’s bewitched forever who has seen,Not with his eyes but with his vision, SpringFlow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.– Vita Sackville-WestI hereby call a recess from the books! For the next several days, I urge you to celebrate Ostara, dear friends! For this, too, honors and strengthens your Artist’s Recovery, since [...]
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