Blessings of Lughnassadh!

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Lammas Bread Blessing Bless the earth that grows the grain, Bless the water that gives us rain, Bless the wind that helps seed spread, Bless the fire that bakes our bread. – Words by Diane Baker, music by Anne Hill, Serpentine Music Lughnassadh (pronounced “LOO-nahs-ah”) or the Anglo-Saxon “Lammas,” is one of the Greater Sabbats … Read more

Blessings of Lughnassadh Eve

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When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road. — Howard Nemerov, Threshold This is the eve of Lughnassadh, also called Lammas in the Christian revision of the Pagan … Read more

Happy Birthday, Leo!

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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball – Leo (Aug. 6, 1911) Today, the Sun moves into the sign of Leo. The famed Lions, so the tradition goes, are “on” 24 hours a day, showing off and behaving … Read more

Welcome to the Apocalypse

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As you know, on the weekends, I like to post poetry, wisdom and inspiration from other visionaries. Today, I offer an excerpt from a column by astrologer and bliss conspirator Rob Brezsny.  The column was published in December, 2007 and is from his book Pronoia, which offers fabulously subversive instructions for Living.  In the midst … Read more

Saturday Poetry

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THE LORDS OF SHADOW by Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp) Where the water whispers mid the shadowy rowan-trees I have heard the Hidden People like the hum of swarming bees: And when the moon has risen and the brown burn glisters grey I have seen the Green Host marching in laughing disarray. Dalua then must sure … Read more