For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened. ~ Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self Tonight we celebrate the second Sunday of our Advent Solstice Sun-Wheel prayer circle. Advent simply means the coming of. So every Sunday between … Read more
It’s time to join together each Sunday through Yule (or Christmas) for our annual Yule Prayer-Spell. Background If you have been a regular reader of mine, you know that for many years now, starting in late November, I invite all my visitors to join together in a virtual prayer circle, or spell weaving. All spiritual … Read more
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Let’s cook up something delicious together, shall we? Like, say, another spell from Pomegranate? This harnesses the power of tonight’s Solar Eclipse, reaching closest totality Nov. 25 06:20 GMT or 1:20 a.m., Eastern; Nov. 24, 10:20 p.m., Pacific. Tomorrow, I will have more details about the current astrology, so please check back here … Read more
Today’s inspirational offering is in support of the Occupiers, the regime-changers in Wisconsin, in Egypt, in Syria, Greece, and all heart-centered, ordinary people who find themselves standing up for peace, justice and freedom. The real global uprising will not be televised. It will be telepathic. What we see in our world is a mirror of … Read more
This is from Priestess, artist, my teacher, and beloved friend, Pomegranate. You may remember her beautiful spell-chant on behalf of Japan that I shared here and I believe worked a number of miracles. She lives in Portland, where the U.S. police state has been showing its true colors. Here is a powerful invocation to the … Read more
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry (1934 – ) Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. … Read more
Thank you, Terry, for pointing to this on Robert Wilkinson’s site, reprinted from the NYT. ~ Beth A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs By MONA SIMPSON Published: October 30, 2011 I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, … Read more
Because I am playing catch-up on my e-book project today (having fallen a bit behind due to other deadlines, etc.), I am borrowing the wisdom of my friend Lynn Hayes for this most magical Full Moon. May your rites be blessed! ~ Beth Full Moon in Taurus, November 10, 2011 by Lynn Hayes The Moon … Read more
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XXIX Rainer Maria Rilke (from In Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy) Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters … Read more
I am headed off shortly to Dancing Moon Bookstore in Raleigh to give my final Samhain season readings today, so I just have a sec to check in here. I wish I could thank each and every one of you personally, but it’s way more than I can! There were more than 250 of you!!! … Read more