The Constancy of the Moon

Then the purple-lidded nightWestering comes, her footsteps lightGuided by the radiant boonOf a sickle-shaped new moon. — Amy Lowell We who are riding Mother Earth’s lands of the Northern Hemisphere are now zooming towards the pinnacle of the Light, the Summer Solstice. This happens, even as our brothers and sisters in the places below the … Read more

Risk Blossoming

Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and equinox! …. We are bleeding at the roots, because we are cut off from the … Read more

Flowering

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.– Anais Nin As we continue to honor the Goddess Flora, I would offer the tantalizing idea that we, too, are a part of Her garden. Each one of you reading these words … Read more

Blessings of the Scorpio Full Moon!

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers … Read more