In owning [our] pain, and daring to experience it, we learn that our capacity to “suffer with” is the true meaning of compassion. ~ Joanna Macy How interesting that this week’s card seems to pick right up from my post yesterday. It is understandable if we have a bit of reluctance, but this week we … Read more
Dance with pleasure, sing Life. Join the rocks and trees in chorus. Wrap your legs around the mountains And let your lips caress the river. Join with Life in this moment And Sing. ~ from Psalm 95, Earth Psalms, by Angela Magara Making its first appearance since the solar eclipse in May, 2011, this week … Read more
What do we live for, if not to make the world less difficult for each other? ~ George Eliot As we enter this delicate cusp that is the turning of the seasons, with Equinox only two weeks away, we are visited by our jolly old friend, the Nine of Cups. The Nines of the Tarot … Read more
Our pain for the world arises out of our interexistence with all life. When we hear the sounds of the Earth crying within us, we’re unblocking, not just feedback, but also the channels of felt connectedness that join us with our world. ~ Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone from Active Hope: How to Face the … Read more
The Circle is Cast. We are between the worlds . And what happens between the worlds Affects all the worlds. ~ Traditional Circle casting In this powerful week between the lunar and solar eclipses, for many a time of traveling between home and holiday destinations, and the beginning of the Yule season, The Hanged Man bids … Read more
There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Flying like wind in the dark of this New Pisces Moon, riding the prelude to the turning of the seasons, the Knight of Swords bursts onto the scene. As … Read more
Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off. ~ Mary Lou Retton, 1984 Olympic gold medal champion gymnast This week, filled with the ongoing fervor of the Olympics, and the triumphant landing of … Read more
Why can’t you harness Might so that it works for Right?… The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can’t neglect it. ~ Arthur Pendragon, The Once and Future King, by T.H. White This week of the Full Moon in Gemini that also brings us a lunar eclipse, we are visited … Read more
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. ~ Epicurus We have another strong personality this week, as, like last week, a court card comes calling. For only the second time in these eight years of pulling my weekly cards, to help us celebrate the Equinox holiday of Ostara, let us welcome … Read more
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will. ~ George Bernard Shaw How exquisite! For this divine week of the New Moon, now moving into the heart of the harvest season, we are graced by the rarely seen Magician. … Read more