How the Year of the Hierophant May Affect You, Part Three
It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications...
View ArticleCome All Ye People Come – Tonight We Light Our Candle One
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...
View ArticleSpark the Second Candle Tonight – We Welcome Fire’s Dancing Light
Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tonight, Dec. 4, we celebrate the second Sun Day of our Advent Solstice Sun-Wheel prayer circle. Advent simply...
View ArticleThe Aid That Is Closer Than You May Realize
If you are reading this, there is a good chance you are already well on your way with this understanding. But maybe not as far along as you’d like. Then again, maybe you have been curious, but have...
View ArticleIt’s Time for a Time Out of Time: The Halcyon Days Have Arrived
And over all, the blessed Sun, Telling of halcyon days begun. David Macbeth Moir (1798-1851) As I do each year around this time, I invite you to join me as we step into a magical Time Out of Time...
View ArticleDim the Lights This Solstice Eve, Be Still in the Embrace of Mother Night
Dark shepherdess of many a golden star, Dost see me, Mother Night? From The Electra by Euripides As I have done for many years, I am encoring my annual observance of Winter Solstice Eve. May this holy...
View ArticleSoda, Champagne, or Chablis? Let’s Toast to 2023!
Out with the old and in with the new! There’s magic on New Year’s in all that you do! Beth Rejoice, my dears! We stand at the crossroads of a new year! I suggest that you spend some time today in...
View ArticleIn Dark and Stillness of Twilight, We Welcome Now Our Mother Night
Dark shepherdess of many a golden star, Dost see me, Mother Night? From The Electra by Euripides As I have done for many years, I am encoring my annual observance of Winter Solstice Eve. May this holy...
View ArticleJoy To the World, the Light Is Born! Blessed Yule!
Brightener of Darkness, hail! Keeper of Clearness, Opener of the Depths. Gifts of plenty are arising, Winter wonders, white snows’ fall. Joyful be the heart within us, Open wide the guesting door,...
View ArticleShining Lights in the Darkest Nights
The Final Candles of the Christmas Advent Prayer Wreath Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. Hamilton Wright Mabie Today is the final Sun Day before Christmas,...
View ArticleBig Changes Knock Upon Our Door – Prepare to Welcome 2024
Out with the old and in with the new! There’s magic on New Year’s in all that you do! Beth Rejoice, my dears! We stand at the crossroads of a new year! I suggest that you spend some time today in...
View ArticleTonight We Begin: This Is Our 20th Year of the Solstice Sun Wheel Celebration
We are a Circle Within a Circle With no beginning And never ending… by Deborah and Rick Hamouris As you may know from my newsletter, the Community Notes in this week’s issue of The Wild Hunt, word of...
View ArticleTonight We Unite by Candlelight
Our Advent Countdown now unites For Christmas and Yule, linked prayers of Light. Depending on your point of view Tonight we light candles one and two. Tonight, in the threshold moments of dusk...
View ArticleThe Birth Draws Near, Its Light We See: Touch Spark to Wick for Candle Three
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore Tonight, Dec. 8, is the third night of our global Solstice Sun-Wheel Prayer Circle, if you are...
View ArticleSlow Down to a More Gentle Rhythm: The Halcyon Days are Here
Halcyon days, now wars are ending. You shall find where-e’er you sail Tritons all the while attending With a kind and gentle gale. Halcyon Days by Thomas Shadwell (1642 – 1692) Blessings of the...
View ArticleThe Final Sun Day Before Solstice: Candle Four
All the Earth waits for the chorus of our voices. All the rocks and trees shudder with the song of life. All the plants and those that live under the roots hum. Angela Magara, from Psalm 114, Earth...
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 As I have done for many years, I am encoring my annual observance of Winter Solstice Eve. May this holy...
View ArticleJoy to the World, The Light Is Born! Merry Yule!
Brightener of Darkness, hail! Keeper of Clearness, Opener of the Depths. Gifts of plenty are arising, Winter wonders, white snows’ fall. Joyful be the heart within us, Open wide the guesting door,...
View ArticleJoy to the World! The Shining Christmas Candle
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa Tis the day before Christmas, and hopefully, you are settling in where you most dearly wish to be. Whether...
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