Wake Up to Find Out that You Are the Eyes of the World
It’s been a difficult week for so many, with sobering challenges every time we look around. So here is a video to help us remember to witness for joy.
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Calling Upon Hecate
As you may know, on the last day of each month, I give honor to the Goddess Hecate. UPDATE, July 1: I continue this call, past Her feast day: In response to the ominous decision made by the United States Supreme Court today, and the ongoing corruption of the most fundamental principles of our democratic … Read more
Sunday Inspiration from Principal John
I subscribe to a number of blogs that offer inspiration and perspective, so that I can be in the deeper flow of wisdom that is sometimes otherwise hard to see. One of my favorites is by Greg John, who writes Principal John: Notes from the Playground. He explains: “These notes start where all leaders start. … Read more
Sunday Poetry For My Wildling Kin
The Stolen Child by William Butler Yeats Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we’ve hid our faery vats, Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the … Read more
Our Broken Hearts
Calling My Children Home – Performed by Emmylou Harris (Doyle Lawson/Charles Waller/Robert Yates) Those lives were mine to love and cherish. To guard and guide along life’s way. Oh God forbid that one should perish. That one, alas, should go astray. Back in the years with all together, Around the place we’d romp and play. … Read more
Saturday Inspiration Poetry
I thought and thought and thought about what pithy, powerful poetry I might post today for my Solar Return. But this, as it has in past years, suits me just fine. (ps: If you’d like to help me celebrate my birthday, please donate a little (or a lot) to my dearest Cherry Hill Seminary). See … Read more
Blessings and Rejoicing at the New Moon in Libra
Dark of the Moon New beginnings Dark of the Moon Plant a seed tonight Dark of the Moon What we envision Will come to be by the Full Moon’s light. Welcome to our beloved Earth, baby Osa! May you be blessed nine times nine, and know what a gift of love you are to all … Read more
Happy Father’s Day!
Love to all those gentle, strong, wise, imperfect, loving men who understand and embrace being fathers. Especially my own, the OWL, whose daughter I am!
Random Thoughts about Children
First I want to thank everyone who responded to yesterday’s invitation to discuss your choices about having children (or not). Since I am not an astrologer, I don’t know what might be in your Fifth House that would have influenced those decisions. But it is a serious choice, perhaps the most important one that we … Read more
Children in the Fifth House
The Fifth House in astrology is the House that reflects our relationships with children. This includes our own biological children, as well as how the parent/child relationship plays out in our lives. Most of us recognize that, for better or worse, how we were parented will forever impact how we rear our children. This is … Read more