Earth Hour Is Our Hour

Dear Earth, Enjoy your moment and take your time. The floor is all yours. We love you. Sincerely, people around the world 🙂 – one post on the Earth Hour Twitter feed Tonight, from 8:30-9:30pm, your local time, wherever you are, please join the world in celebrating Earth Hour.  For one hour, everyone is asked … Read more

Rejoice! Ostara Blessings!

A Seed for Spring Equinox ©Annie Finch Thrusting through the season where I’d waited for spring, tucking up my head, I felt the slanted weight of clouds pressing through the sky above me down towards this grave, till I feel the earth around the place my head has lain under winter’s touch, and it crumbles. … Read more

Blessings of the Super Full Moon in Virgo

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing. ~ Mark Twain Today we celebrate a most magical Full Moon.  This is the Full Moon that triggers festivities around the world to chase away the gloom of Winter. And this year, it happens to be a Super Moon. It is called this in part because Lady Moon is currently … Read more

Sorry, Patrick. I’m With the Snakes.

May your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow, And may trouble avoid you wherever you go. Today is Trefuilnid Treochair (Truh-FWEEL-nid Tray-oh-CARE) in the Celtic traditions. This is considered the premier national feast day of Éire (Ireland). The name of the holiday means “the triple bearer of the triple key,” and it refers to the … Read more

Book Magic

The summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library. ~ Edward Eager (Half Magic) In astrology, the Third House is concerned with our immediate … Read more

Priestesses of Aphrodite

As you know, I have been urging everyone to reclaim Valentine’s Day in the name of the Goddess Aphrodite. In a lovely bit of magical synchronicity, today I found this beautiful trailer for a documentary about the women of Cyprus who are revitalizing Her worship. My thanks to Jason Pitzl-Waters of The Wild Hunt, for … Read more