Beth

Sunday Poetry Selection

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Ecstasyby Eric Ashford How delightful! The full flown grateful lightdelectably traced overthe unhinged tongue. The spoken declaration of blisscaressed into illumination. An ululation of the soulplucked up beyond a thoughtto be a sob of awein the throat of an angel. How lusciousthis sumptuous spanof a roaring silencewhere the void sings outas one instant. How delightfullythe … Read more

Celebrating Late Summer

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Summer means promises fulfilled, objectives gained, hopes realized. The surge of doing and achieving, of watching and enjoying is finally replaced by a sense of quiet and floating and a certain fullness and repletion, as though one cannot absorb any more.— Sigurd F. Olsen This was one of those perfect New England days in late … Read more

Happy Birthday, Virgo!

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Virgo – from the zodiac window at Chartres CathedralDo not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. — Mother Theresa, spoken like the true Virgo she was Today, the Sun enters the sign of Virgo, and so we enter into, according to some traditions, the Month of Isis, a time of the creative … Read more

Consualia

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As you have sown, so shall you reap.— Marcus Tullius CiceroAccording to Dan Furst’s Hermes World Calendar, in the Zoroastrian calendar of ancient Persia, the day before the Sun exits Leo and enters Virgo is considered the climactic moment of Solar radiance and power, and is celebrated as the first day of the New Year. … Read more

Galungan

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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson On the Indonesian island of Bali, today is one of the most important holidays of the year. Galungan commemorates the triumph of good (Dharma) over evil (Adharma). It is based on the myth of the demon king “Mayadenawa.” Mayadenawa was very cruel, … Read more

Resuming our Journey..

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… And now, home again. Yes, I am home from my amazing journey, but will not be officially “at work” until tomorrow. All I say is, “After the ecstasy.. the laundry.” I hope you all enjoyed the videos I posted on my website while I was away! “I beseech Minerva and Venus, of whom one … Read more

Barack Obama’s Tarot Profile

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With his exact time of birth in some dispute, many astrologers have had difficulty casting Barack Obama’s birth chart. This made me curious about his Tarot profile, which, happily, does not require that degree of momentary precision. Many people don’t realize it, but based on the numerology of our birthday, there are Tarot cards that … Read more

Gone Yet Not Entirely Missing…

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I am out of town on my annual retreat for the next ten days or so, and I won’t be able to update my blog pages. But — on my actual website, through a mystical, magical process, I will be updating every day, offering you some very specially selected news items. Trust me, you won‘t … Read more

One World – One Dream

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Today – an important message from my friend, Reclaiming/Feri Priestess, Oak: The slogan for this year’s Olympics is “One World, One Dream.” A perfect slogan, a perfect spell for us to invoke. The Olympics seize our imagination, in that they are a direct tie to the old Gods. The Olympics are also a coming together … Read more