Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you’ll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift, too. ~ Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), theologian, poet, memoirist In about two weeks, we in the Northern Hemisphere will cross the threshold of Spring … Read more
You shall be keeper of the Grail so that it may heal the hearts of men. ~ The Fisher King, directed by Terry Gilliam Here is a beautiful visitor, once rare, but now it has us appeared twice this year. Welcome this week to the Ace of Cups. The Aces represent the complete potential of … Read more
Gratitude is a two-fold love – love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest. ~ Henry Van Dyke How perfect that this is the card that appears just after the Full Blessing Moon of July! This week, we welcome the Nine of Cups, the gatekeeper of satisfaction and thanksgiving. … Read more
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit fly Into the mystic. ~Van Morrison Making a rather rare appearance in time for this week’s Full SuperMoon, the Eight of Cups beckons with mystery and longing. In her classic work, Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom, Rachel … Read more
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ~ Francis Bacon This week, before Equinox heralds the great quarter turn of the Wheel of the Year, we are given one of the more enigmatic cards of the Minor Arcana. Welcome back, Six of Cups. As I have noted on its … Read more
From all who dwell below the skies, Let faith and hope with joy arise, Let beauty, truth, and good be sung Through every land, by every tongue. ~ Earth Prayers What a beautiful gift for us during this Autumn week as the Moon wanes, the harvest season deepens, and the barriers against marriage equality fall. … 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
Reach out your hand if your cup be empty If your cup is full, may it be again; Let it be known there is a fountain That was not made by the hands of man. ~ Ripple, by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia Here is a beautiful visitor we rarely see. This week, let us … Read more
…Know that thy seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. ~ from The Charge of the Goddess, traditional by Doreen Valiente Bliss! Having just visited us at the threshold of the Celtic New … Read more
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. ~ Albus Dumbledore (via J. K. Rowling), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets In this week before the final square between Uranus and Pluto and during which Saturn the taskmaster turns retrograde, we welcome the Seven of Cups. It … Read more