Beth Today, the Sun enters Gemini, sign of the Twins. Influenced by Mercury, who rules Gemini, the next thirty days are especially favorable for learning and studies of all kinds. This is why for many centuries Spring final exams have been held in late May and early June in Western countries. Although we are in a … Read more
Integrity (Nine of Wands) – © Voyager TarotThe death rate for people who play it safe and for people who live boldly is the same: 100 percent.–– Patti Dingh, Life is a Verb Did you work on your homework over the weekend? What sorts of affirmations did you come up with? This week, the chapter … Read more
He’s there among the scented treesby Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941) (from The Lover of God, translated by Tony Stewart and Chase Twitchell) He’s there among the scented trees,playing the notes he has taught you.Too late for embarrassment, shy doenibbling at the forest’s edge,shawled in deep blue shadows.He’s calling you. The flower of your soulis … Read more
Bodhisattva: In Mahayana Buddhism, the Bodhisattva is a person who already has a considerable degree of enlightenment and seeks to use their wisdom to help other human beings to become liberated themselves…an already wise person who uses skillful means to lead others to see the benefits of virtue and the cultivation of wisdom. (from Wikipedia) … Read more
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 Some of you may, at this point, feel like nothing much is happening. I beg to differ. Don’t bail out now! You … Read more
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.— Seneca Working our way through our kriyas, or at least the small and large shifts of how we perceive ourselves, many peripheral things will change, too. Things that seem to have no obvious … Read more
Walking Between The Worlds Painting in Gouache © MorgaineCreativity comes from awakening and directing men’s higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.— I Ching What wonderful, juicy discussions we are having! As creatives, as magical people, as awakeners and the awakening, we are all walking the … Read more
© Osho Zen Tarot The significant problems we have in the world today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. — Albert Einstein As we take the steps necessary to restore our sense of integrity, we are cultivating new ways to understand and identify our true creative self. … Read more
segment from the mosaic mural Tonantzin Renace by Colette Crutcher,16th St. near Sanchez, San Francisco, California A Love Note from Your MotherPsalm 135 – From Earth Psalms ©Angela Magara To my dear children:Give praise for the beautySay the names of birds, of trees, sons and daughters,with highest honor.Extol the lands and the seas between.Give praise … Read more
From Playing for Change – a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music: