All Others Pay Cash

You Wouldn’t Believe How Much RISK FREE Money You Can Make Simply By Sitting At Home, In Front Of Your Computer For A Few Minutes Each Day.— Internet ad So here’s the thing. In many cases, behaving, before it has actually happened, as if you had already reached your aspirations can be a powerful healing … Read more

Money and the American Dream

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. — Dorothy Parker Yesterday, we examined the pervasive Puritan work ethic and its relationship to our beliefs about money. There is no denying that it has in some ways has been very valuable. It has been … Read more

Blessings of the Full Harvest Moon!

This is the Harvest Moon, also known as the Wine Moon. It is the Full Moon closest to Autumn Equinox and when the Moon is in the sign of Aries. This is truly the ideal time to harvest any herbs, veggies and other garden goodies before they are nipped by frost or simply the dwindling … Read more

Liminal spaces and Mr. Greenspan

Threshold © Joanna Powell Colbert Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.— W. Eugene Smith, Photojournalist (1918 -1978) As we examine the meaning of money, I find it interesting thatAlan Greenspan, the highest guru of money in our lifetime, has been making the talk show … Read more

Value and meaning

All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. — John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson What is the difference between a hobby, a passion, … Read more

Hungry and afraid

Money is, in some respects, life’s fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.— P.T. Barnum As we move this week to the threshold that brings the dark time of the year to the Northern Hemisphere, and the great harvest celebrations, we naturally consider the meaning of abundance in our lives. For … Read more

Celebrating Pagan Pride

Charge of the Goddess Traditional by Doreen Valiente, as adapted by Starhawk: Listen to the words of the Great Mother, Who of old was called Artemis, Astarte, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Diana, Arionrhod, Brigid, and by many other names: Whenever you have need of anything, once a month, and better it be when the moon … Read more

I double-dog dare you!

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.— Lord Byron For the past 500 years or so, money has been in the form of paper or metal coins. Now, though, it comes in the form of a plastic card, and increasingly, as typed symbols converted into electronic … Read more

In Remembrance of Madeleine L’Engle

Nov. 29, 1918 – Sept. 6, 2007Madeleine L’Engle was best known, perhaps, for her wonderful series of books that began with the Newbery Award-winning A Wrinkle In Time. But she was also a cherished writer of poetry, plays, autobiography and books on prayer. Her deeply held Christian beliefs were never a barrier to her love … Read more

The invention of money

Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.— Richard Friedman Money can be considered to be an important magical tool. To become more intentional in how we call it to us and how we use it, it is important to have a better understanding of what money … Read more