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 a specially selected oasis of poetry. So I invite you … Read more
The Five of Cups To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. — Pearl S. BuckThis is a first appearance for this week’s card (since I’ve been posting my Tarot Cards of the Week the past several years). It is a card that is both mysterious and sorrowful. A figure is … Read more
Today is Midsummer Day in many of the Scandinavian and eastern European countries. In Finland, Latvia, and Estonia, for example, Midsummer Day is second only to Christmas as the biggest holiday of the year. Bonfires, feasting, parades, dancing and carousing fill the countryside. All sorts of divination and spells are common practice, and reveling outdoors … Read more
Falling breaths formed from birds clouds trees and tears. Yet we do not know the history of our mother’s dreams. The colored sounding forming dreams holding the breaths of our grandparents. It is time we begin to listen. — The History of Our Mother’s Dreams © MariJo Moore As the magic of Summer Solstice approaches, … Read more
The plum tree, dwindling, contains less of the spring;But the garden is wider, and holds more of the Moon. – Zen saying Depending on where you happen to be riding on our globe, this is the 2nd Full Moon of May. For some folks, depending on the time zone, its fullness comes June 1, which … Read more
This day was created to celebrate the unique, wonderful magic of the Tarot, promoting its use as a tool for good, and for the benefit and growth of the Spiritual Self. Purpose : 1) To promote Tarot’s use beyond any public conception of it as ‘evil’ or Satanic. 2) To promote Tarot uses in honest … Read more
To any of my friends who have been unable to get onto my website in the past 2 days, I apologize. The service I use that simplifies my URL has been disrupted. I pay “Sitelutions” to invisibly whisk my visitors to the real (but more complicated) URL address that is on my actual Internet Service … Read more
On a golden dawn in the dawn sublimeOf years ere the stars had ceased to sing,Beautiful out of the sea-deeps coldAphrodite arose—the Flower of Time—That, dear till the day of her blossoming,The old, old Sea had borne in his heart.Around her worshipping waves did partTremulous—glowing in rose and gold.And the birds broke forth into singing … Read more
Do you not see how mighty is the Goddess Aphrodite? She sows and gives that love from which all we upon this earth are born. — Empedocles ca. 490-430 BCE Homer tells us that where Aphrodite walks, flowers spring up under Her feet. When She first arrived at the assembly of the other Olympians, all … Read more
©Goddess of the New Light TarotAlthough Aphrodite is beautiful, and beloved by the Gods and Goddesses of Olympus, She is no wimp. As coach and inspirational teacher Vered Neta points out, “With a domain that included the innermost feelings of the heart and the source of human passion, Aphrodite had power unlike any other God. … Read more