Happy New Year!

Guided by the Graces, as well as Virtue and Art, I wish you a very — The Year 2009 has been designated the International Year of Astronomy. Here’s a resolution you can easily keep this year — just keep looking up: Meantime, if you’d like to read some New Year’s Day magical lore, visit here. … Read more

Blessings of Yule! Happy Winter Solstice!

Brothers, Sisters, Come and SingTo the tune of Hark the Herald, Angels Sing I.Brothers, sisters, come and singGlory to the new-born King!Gardens peaceful, forests wildCelebrate the Winter Child! Now the time of growing starts!Joyful hands and joyful hearts!Cheer the Yule log as it burns!Once again, the Sun returns, Brothers, sisters, come and sing!Glory to the … Read more

Happy Birthday, Beethoven!

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning!— Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most respected and influential composers of all time. Year after year, his symphonies … Read more

Solstice Sun Wheel – the Third Candle

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful.— Lao TzuToday is the third Sun-day of our group spell/prayer/meditation, as we … Read more

With Tears and Gratitude…

Last night, Times Square was spontaneously packed with people hugging and weeping, in numbers rivaling any New Year’s celebration. Revelers danced in front of the soon-to-be vacated White House. In the Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Dr. King’s children cheered and I know the Ancestors laughed and wept. And at Grant Field, Chicago, they played … Read more