Yule Blessings! Happy Winter Solstice! Hail to the returning Sun. We drink to the Old Gods. To the Holly, to the Oak, and Lady. A Merry Yule to all! — A very old Yuletide toast from the collected lore of my dear magical sister and Plant Spirit Medicine Priestess, Alruna The Winter (and Summer!) Solstice … Read more
Happy Birth Day to Ganesha! While I do not forget that in America, it is the tragic anniversary of the terrorist attacks, and we will probably give way too much attention to the two-bit fools in Florida that want to burn the Qu’ran, I would rather focus my energy and attention today on something much … Read more
Glory of the Day-Star, hail! Lifter of the Light, Burnisher of the Sky. Gifts of love to earth are bringing, Summer’s shimmer, dew’s delight. Dancing be the heart within us, Open be our souls to bliss, Courage vanquish every shadow, Greet Midsummer with a kiss. – Greeting to the Summer Solstice from Celtic Devotional – … Read more
This May Eve, as I burn, Year wheel take another turn. Fire flame and fire bright, Bless us on this May Eve night. Today is May Eve, Walpurgisnacht, Beltane Eve! One of the most magical nights of the year, in Germany, Walpurgisnacht begins at sunrise today and ends at sunrise on the first day of … Read more
Zen…does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. — Alan W. Watts from The Way of Zen One way to become more conscious of the sacredness of your kitchen is to have a kitchen altar. This is an honored tradition in many … Read more
The Children of Nut – Part One © Dan Furst From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010. It’s Jump Time, as Jean Houston entitled her new book on Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change. As you know if you’re a regular reader of the UFC [And I urge you to become … Read more
“May you be blessed with good fortune as long as Lord Ganesha’s trunk, wealth and prosperity as big as His stomach, happiness as sweet as His ladoos, and may your troubles be as small as His mouse.” — Traditional Diwali blessing Diwali (also known as Divali or Deepavali) is celebrated starting today, and continuing for … Read more
Bacchusby Ralph Waldo Emerson Bring me wine, but wine which never grewIn the belly of the grape,Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching throughUnder the Andes to the Cape,Suffer no savor of the earth to scape. Let its grapes the morn saluteFrom a nocturnal root,Which feels the acrid juiceOf Styx and Erebus;And turns the woe … Read more
Goddess Wheel – Lammas © Wendy AndrewMoney is God in action. — Raymond Charles Barker We have been examining our core beliefs about the nature of wealth, the meaning of money and what we assume about our own personal relationship with whatever abundance is available. We have been led to believe, by the self-serving powers … Read more
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