We dance around in a ring and suppose,but the secret sits in the middle and knows.— Robert FrostToday is the Great Festival of Samhain (pronounced SAH-wen, or SOW-wen), which marks the third and final harvest and summer’s end. It is the Witches’ New Year. This is the midpoint between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, and … Read more
While I am out of town for a few days, I offer some inspiration for you. Today, I invite you to join us. After I originally posted the video Thursday morning, by Thursday afternoon it had been removed from YouTube and the creators’ own website was taken down. But I am sharing another copy of … Read more
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.— William Blake Euphrosyne is our guide as we celebrate the harvest season and prepare for Winter’s barren time. Now, on the waxing young Moon, is a great time to start batches of magical potpourri to sweeten the closed-in Winter home in the days ahead. The … Read more
Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light.For guidance and interpretations, may I suggest you visit here and here.
Chang-O© by the most fabulous Lisa HuntThe garden is very still, It is dazed with moonlight, Contented with perfume, Dreaming the opium dreams of its folded poppies. — Amy Lowell, The Garden by Moonlight In addition to the Eleusinian Mysteries, this week’s Autumn Equinox Full Moon marks the Chinese Moon Festival. Taking place all over … Read more
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. — Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) Over this weekend, I suggest that you to prepare for the brilliant, loving energy of the coming Harvest Moon. These are the last few days of the increasing Moonlight, a time of expansion … Read more
Nature contains Nature,Nature rejoices in her own nature,Nature surmounts Nature;Nature cannot be amended but in her own nature. — Secret Teachings of All Ages, by Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) With Euphrosyne as our guide, plus a special visit this week from the Queen of Pentacles, we move deeper into the harvest and ancestor festival season. … Read more
Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light. Today is the second New Moon of the calendar (solar) month. In the way that the Blue Moon is a second Full Moon in a month, the second New Moon is … Read more
Today – an important message from my friend, Reclaiming/Feri Priestess, Oak: The slogan for this year’s Olympics is “One World, One Dream.” A perfect slogan, a perfect spell for us to invoke. The Olympics seize our imagination, in that they are a direct tie to the old Gods. The Olympics are also a coming together … Read more
The wise know that there’s neither unity nor plurality – the world is neither one nor many. Just as a piece of rope is mistaken for a snake, the Atman is mistaken as this diverse world. Duality is an appearance and the non-dual Atman is the real truth. — Gaudapada (c. 8th century CE)The Grace … Read more