Wishing You a Merry Yule! Solstice Blessings!
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...
View ArticleTarot Card of the Week, Jan. 14-20, 2013: The Hierophant
Don’t confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself. ~Paulo Coelho Another visit from the Major Arcana this week, this time with...
View ArticleBlessings of Samhain To the Living and the Dead
I am the hallow-tide of all souls passing, I am the bright releaser of all pain, I am the quickener of the fallen seed-case, I am the glance of snow, the strike of rain. I am the hollow of the winter...
View ArticleBlessings of the New Moon in Scorpio and the Hybrid Eclipse
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. It’s a very powerful day today; so much, in fact, that...
View ArticleSunday Poetry: In the Dark of the Moon and the Year
For Light by John O’Donohue (1956-2008) from To Bless the Space Between Us Light cannot see inside things. That is what the dark is for: Minding the interior, Nurturing the draw of growth Through...
View ArticleOn the Edge of Magic and Transformation
There, at the foot of the tree, belonging to no man, A silver apple falls. There, amongst the branches, the mother sits. Weaver of dreams against the weft of the wood, Insight falls like gentle rain on...
View ArticleTarot Card of the Week: March 17-23, 2014: A Timely Encore from the High...
The history of the universe is an infinite sacred book that all men write and read and try to understand and in which they are also written. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, paraphrasing Thomas Carlyle Prepare...
View ArticleFeel the Sacred Power Rising on This Merry May Eve
Here we come a’ piping, In Springtime and in May; Green fruit a’ ripening, And Winter fled away. The Queen she sits upon the strand, Fair as lily, white as wand; Seven billows on the sea, Horses riding...
View ArticleIt’s Time for the First Candle On our Solstice Prayer Wheel
We are a Circle Within a Circle With no beginning And never ending… ~ by Deborah and Rick Hamouris As I posted last week, TONIGHT is the night that we begin joining together every Sunday evening...
View ArticleSpreading the Light
The Final Candle of the Christmas Advent Prayer Wreath Tonight at midnight, or tomorrow morning if you prefer, for those who are celebrating Christmas, it is time for you to light your final, center...
View ArticleSunday Poetry: As the Halcyon Days Wind Down and the New Year Beckons
May your voyage be long, full of adventure, with many harbors seen for the first time. Ithaka by Constantine P. Cavafy (1911) As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure,...
View ArticleThe First Candle on Our Solstice Advent Wreath
We are a Circle Within a Circle With no beginning And never ending… ~ by Deborah and Rick Hamouris Once again it’s time to begin our annual Advent candle lighting, also known as the Solstice Sun Wheel...
View ArticleDarken the Lights, Embrace the Quiet – Tonight is Mother Night
Dark shepherdess of many a golden star, Dost see me, Mother Night? From The Electra by Euripides This is the day before Winter Solstice, and the traditional celebration of Mother Night. As far as we...
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