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Happy Birthday, Cancer!

by Beth on June 21, 2011

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ~ Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama (Sun in Cancer – July 6, 1935) Cancer is the sign of the Summer Solstice, the beginning of the warmest season of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It is also the [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week: June 20-26, 2011

by Beth on June 20, 2011

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ~ Cecil Beaton (photographer; stage, film and fashion designer 1904-1980) How very magical! After putting in his most recent appearance during the previous Solstice (Winter [...]

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Gratitude for the Gifts of Summer

by Beth on October 1, 2010

Blessed is the gift of the Summertime, just now departed… Hot, Sticky sweet, Humming and buzzing with life And the ripening… Summer love. Summer breezes. Summer nights. Summer vacation. Peaches.  Flip-flops.  Beaches.  Fat, red tomatoes.  Hummingbirds. What are you most grateful for when summer comes? Has summer changed for you over the years? For instance [...]

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Prayer Bead for Summer

by Beth on September 30, 2010

Blessed Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, She of Ten Thousand Names. Star Goddess. Mama Gaia. My Lady of the Green Wood. Brighid. Danu. Hecate. Minerva. Kuan Yin. Yemaya. I give thanks and praises to you this day for your presence in my life and my heart. I give thanks for your many gifts to us… [...]

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Blessings of Lughnassadh!

by Beth on August 1, 2010

Lammas Bread Blessing Bless the earth that grows the grain, Bless the water that gives us rain, Bless the wind that helps seed spread, Bless the fire that bakes our bread. – Words by Diane Baker, music by Anne Hill, Serpentine Music Lughnassadh (pronounced “LOO-nahs-ah”) or the Anglo-Saxon “Lammas,” is one of the Greater Sabbats [...]

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Blessings of Lughnassadh Eve

by Beth on July 31, 2010

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road. – Howard Nemerov, Threshold This is the eve of Lughnassadh, also called Lammas in the Christian revision of the Pagan [...]

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Wordless Wednesdays

by Beth on July 7, 2010

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