The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight. ~ Teddy Roosevelt This week, many of us are preparing to make our solemn vows and dedications for the ancient holiday of Imbolc. But we are also in the midst of a Mercury retrograde, creating delays and possible interference. So it is quite instructive to … Read more
Earth’s crammed with Heaven. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning After last week’s challenges, it is with some relief that in this week of the New Moon we welcome the Nine of Pentacles. The nines of the Tarot show the suit’s completion (with the tens being an overflowing into the next phase). All of the nines speak … Read more
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. ~ Mark Twain This week, we receive a visitor that hasn’t come calling for a number of years. Should we gladly welcome the Two of Swords? Or not? The twos are usually about choices, … Read more
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ~ Plato It’s one of the busiest weeks of the year, buzzing with travel, parties, gatherings with friends, and of course the big Winter holiday celebrations. There’s plenty of astrological activity, too. So maybe it’s not that … Read more
Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief? ~ William Blake As we in the Northern Hemisphere approach the threshold of Winter, with the waning Moon leading us to the darkest of nights, we are visited this week by the Five … Read more
In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning. ~ T. S. Eliot On this first day of December, which is also World AIDS Day, for better or worse, the end of the year is now in sight. And to underscore this, in the week of the final 2014 Full Moon’s illumination, … Read more
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ~ Andre Maurois This week, as millions of us travel and celebrate Thanksgiving (in the U.S.), we need to stay on our toes and pay attention to important messages. That fierce, smart, sometimes naive youth, the … Read more
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. ~ Kahlil Gibran It appears that our challenges from last week continue, and we are offered another clue for the unprecedented … Read more
As you may expect, I am very mindful when I pull my Monday Card of the Week. I always cast a circle and greet a host of Guides, Guardians, and Allies. I engage with the astrological and sacred energies of the current Time. I welcome my own personal Helpers, as well as those I feel … Read more
Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh In this week … Read more