It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. ~ Bilbo Baggins, via J.R.R. Tolkien This week, which holds the space between two powerful eclipses, kicks off a Mercury retrograde, and sees the … Read more
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~ Ralph Nader This week, Mars changes signs, the Moon conjuncts rebellious Uranus and squares transformational Pluto on the 16th, followed by a lunar eclipse in the fiery sign of Aries on Friday. Into this potentially volatile mix, we receive a visit from … Read more
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson This week, as we get fully underway into the … Read more
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ~ Albert Einstein In a week that features a New Moon, the Sun squaring Pluto on Tuesday, and opposing Uranus on Thursday, and the game of “chicken” being played out in the American government, we welcome the … Read more
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ~ André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 – 1951) French author, Nobel Prize laureate This week brings us another Swords card, and yet another Court card as well, in a year that has had many. But this is a visitor who we’ve not seen … Read more
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. ~ Abraham Lincoln In pulling this week’s card, I have to admit my heart sunk. For this most juicy week that features the Full Harvest Moon, the turning of the Wheel in our Mabon/Equinox celebrations, our own … Read more
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~ Anais Nin Back again for the third time this year, and once again at a decisive juncture, we welcome the Queen of Wands. Her last visits were on the threshold of the New Year, Dec. 31, and then, quite recently, the week of the Turning … Read more
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. ~ Henry Van Dyke With the unofficial end of Summer following Monday’s Labor Day holiday, and the New Moon on Wednesday, it promises to be an intense week. The Knight of Wands has burst onto the scene! The Wands suit, of … Read more
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred…I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character… I have a … Read more
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. ~ Kahlil Gibran During this intense week of the Full Moon, and what astrologer Elisabeth Grace calls, “the supercharged energy of expansive Jupiter about to exactly square rebel Uranus at … Read more