Salutations to Kuan Yin

Kuan Yin does not come hither; I do not go thither;the water is in the basin; the moon is in the heavens.When the water is clear, the moon appears;when the mirror is bright, the image emerges. — Su Tung-po – 11th Century poet Today is the 19th day of the second moon of the new … Read more

What is fasting?

Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. A wise person should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. — Hippocrates, considered the Father of Western medicine In order to receive the gifts of the Graces, we are making sacred space, exploring the practices … Read more

The Third Candle

“The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling…their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. … Read more

A Yule Magical Spell

Night Fall #1 – Mary McIntyre ©2003I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors …and it’s the shade that defines the light. –– Tori Amos As we work with the magic of timing, once again this year, I invite my visitors to join with me in a magical working that … Read more

Money Laundering

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.— Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) Whatever your beliefs about any secret societies, conspiracies, hidden agendas and so forth behind the genesis of our nation’s currency, the cash we now use certainly has symbols and mottoes that represent a return to the idea … Read more

The Meanings on our Money, Pt. 1

The Escutcheon on the breast of the American bald Eagle displayed, proper, holding in his dexter talon an Olive branch, and in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows, all proper, & in his beak a scroll, inscribed with this Motto, “E pluribus unum.” For the Crest: Over the head of the Eagle which appears … Read more

Asking for Help

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. — John Henry Jowett (1864 – 1923 ) As you shift your attention from what you don’t have, … Read more

Releasing, healing

I cut negative bonds of attachment to lack and limitation.I cancel the belief that struggle is noble.— Jeanie Marshall, Personal Development Consultant Did you have a chance this weekend to try some automatic writing about your memories and feelings about money? I hope so. This can be very instructive, opening up insights you may not … Read more

Beginning to heal

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.— Bob Hope Over the past weeks I’ve been talking about how to understand money as a magical tool, for as our ancestors understood, it is a bridge between the Divine realms and the human ones. To … Read more

Money and Magic

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.— Desiderius Erasmus Like an athame which cuts, divides, and defines, or the wand, which directs the user’s will and desire to manifest, money can be thought of as a magical tool that is connected to the … Read more