This week, I am featuring a Goddess whose feast day Americans will be celebrating on Wednesday (whether they realize it or not). No one can explain Her better than one of Her most public, devoted Priestesses, Selena Fox. So today, I offer Selena’s own article, almost in its entirety — a loving homage to this … Read more
As you may know, on the last day of each month, I like to give honor to the Goddess Hecate. Hecate is a Greek Triple Goddess of magical crossroads and the three realms of Earth, Sea and Sky. She is a guardian of the household, protector of everything newly born, and the Goddess of Witches. … Read more
For today, I am just offering an excerpt that discusses the first obstacle: Resistance. More about the other two another time, perhaps. Let me know if you enjoyed this and are interested. ~ Beth Do the Work! Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way By Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art … Read more
In ancient times cats were worshiped as Gods; they have not forgotten this. ~ Terry Pratchett On this first Sunday of Summer, as our brothers and sisters in Egypt today celebrate their dramatic progress towards democracy, we welcome the glad and Summery energy of beautiful Bastet! Bastet (the name now preferred by most Egyptologists), is … Read more
I have already heard this poem several times this week, in celebration of the Solstice. I have even posted it myself, some three Summers ago. But I can think of few others more perfect for this magical time. Speaking at least for myself, its question is one I keep spiraling back to, with ever renewing … Read more
Glory of the Day-Star, hail! Lifter of the Light, Burnisher of the Sky. Gifts of love to earth are bringing, Summer’s shimmer, dew’s delight. Dancing be the heart within us, Open be our souls to bliss, Courage vanquish every shadow, Greet Midsummer with a kiss. Caitlín Matthews Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings Happy Solstice … Read more
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ~ Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama (Sun in Cancer – July 6, 1935) Happy Birthday, Cancer! Cancer is the sign of the Summer Solstice, and heralds the beginning of the warmest season of the year in the Northern … Read more
Hand in hand, with Fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place. ~ Titania, from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the last day of Spring. This is Midsummer’s Eve, the night before the sabbat of Litha (Summer Solstice). Besides Samhain and Beltane, this … Read more
I am posting this lovely article from astrologer Elisabeth Grace, regarding today’s encore Gemini New Moon. Enjoy! Another New Moon, another opportunity to reset your intentions for the next four weeks, so you can be consciously in line with planetary patterns. And when you are conscious of whatever wind is at your back, you can … Read more