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In Gratitude for Seamus Heaney
The prolific and beloved Irish poet, writer, and teacher, Seamus Heaney, has died. Heaney received the highest accolades for his work, including the Nobel Prize in Literature (1995), the Golden Wreath of Poetry (2001), the T. S. Eliot Prize (2006) and two Whitbread prizes (1996 and 1999). He was both the Harvard and the Oxford … Read more
The Blessings that Return: Kuan Yin
As you may remember, for most of last year, I celebrated “Goddess Sundays” here on my site. One of the Divine Ones to whom I am devoted is the Goddess Kuan Yin. You may recall I wrote about Her here. Just this week, some of those blessings were returned when I received several emails from … Read more
Happy Birthday, Beautiful Virgo!
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it. ~ Agatha Christie, September 15, 1890 (Sun and Ascendant in Virgo) The Sun enters the sign of Virgo tonight at 7:02 pm (Eastern Daylight Time), which, according to some traditions, means it’s also the Month of Isis, and a … Read more
Blessings of the Encore Aquarius Full Moon
At 9:45pm Eastern Time tonight, we are treated to an encore Full Moon occurring in the same sign as the previous Full Moon was. That’s why some people consider it to be similar to having a second Full Moon in a calendar month — in other words, a sort of astrological Blue Moon. So twice … Read more
Sunday Inspiration: A Heavy Curriculum
I saw this just the other day, from one of my most beloved teachers of my lifetime, Ram Dass. It was precisely what I needed to hear at that moment. In fact, in my morning pages, I’d finished that day’s entry with a question pity party, and several hours later that same day, this was … Read more
Wordless Wednesday: A Year of Sky
I encourage you to expand to full screen (click the symbol between “HD” and “Vimeo” after it starts playing.) Courtesy NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.