Lugh © Mickie MuellerAll the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise, not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.— John Adams, in a letter to Thomas JeffersonIn order to heal the relationship between … Read more
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen Many of us have already run into money obstacles that threaten to hinder our creative desires. After all, we may have awakened some wild, long-lost dreams but we also live in the real world, don’t we? We may be managing to survive … Read more
The birth of the Goddess Inanna has been celebrated annually on this day since ancient times. Inanna is the Sumerian Queen of Heaven and Earth, and a deity who presides over both love and war. Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart Inanna child of the Moon God a soft bud swelling her queen’s robe cloaks the … Read more
Fast away the Old year passes, Fa-la la-la la la-la la la! Hail the New, ye lads and lasses! Fa-la la-la la la-la la la! Many thanks to the School of the Seasons for much of this lore. Blessings to you, Waverly FitzGerald, for your faithful, invaluable service to us for these many, many years, … Read more
Except during the Great Depression, women and children have never been on our nation’s streets in significant numbers. During the 1980’s, cutbacks in benefits coupled with rapidly increasing rents and a dearth of low-income housing jeopardized the stability of all people with reduced or fixed incomes. At the same time, the number of female-headed households … Read more
Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!The brooding and blissful halcyon days!— Walt Whitman Alcyone (“al-SIGH-ah-nee”) was the daughter of Aeolus, King of the Winds, and the wife of Ceyx, King of Thessaly. Alcyone and Ceyx (pronounced “SEE-ecks”) loved each other devotedly and were never willingly apart. Nevertheless, a time came when Ceyx … Read more
©Osho Zen TarotThe generous man enriches himself by giving;the miser hoards himself poor. — Dutch proverb With last night’s collapse of the American auto industry bailout (for now), and so many other factors that point to a deepening recession, we are all very jittery about what cash we do have. How, then, can we give … Read more
On winter nights, when the moon is high, wait by the track at Camelot.Though nothing catches your eye except shade and moon shadows, you may hear them ride by:Arthur and his men, hoofbeats clattering, with their horns and their hounds on their way to hunt. — Exploring King Arthur’s Britain by Denise Stobie Except for … Read more
Diana Hunting, by Hans Makart Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow and a sigh –He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear! — Rudyard Kipling The Wild Hunt has been an apparition that has been observed by countless generations, from one end of Europe to the other, and even brought over to … Read more
Then the hunters were black and large and terrifying, and their hounds were all black and broad-eyed and terrifying, and they rode on black horses and black goats… — Anonymous monk of Peterborough Abbey,from the Peterborough Chronicles,circa 1132 (translated from the early Middle English) Across Europe, the Wild Hunt appears at various times of the … Read more