Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will. ~ George Bernard Shaw How exquisite! For this divine week of the New Moon, now moving into the heart of the harvest season, we are graced by the rarely seen Magician. … Read more
We’re after something that lies beneath all [the] noise, something literally un-thinkable, something that is not so much communication as it is communion — a felt language; a silence filled not with emptiness, but with presence. ~ Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life From The Magician, who brings the flash of consciousness … Read more
I climb to the tower-top and lean upon broken stone, A mist that is like blown snow is sweeping over all, Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon That seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable, A glittering sword out of the east. ~ William Butler Yeats As I shuffled my deck and … Read more
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. ~ Rabindranath Tagore In this momentous week that commences with the third and final U.S. Presidential debate, we might well expect a heavily portentous reading. Add to this the fact that today the Sun enters the sign of Scorpio, … Read more
There is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it. ~ Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Prepare yourself for the fabric of the mundane to part; a time of power and mystery is upon us. … Read more
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~ Henry David Thoreau After all these years, for only the second time ever, this week of the Full Snow Moon we are graced with a visit from The … Read more
The history of the universe is an infinite sacred book that all men write and read and try to understand and in which they are also written. ~ Jorge Luis Borges, paraphrasing Thomas Carlyle Prepare yourself for a time of power and mystery. As what has been, for many, a very painful, difficult Winter comes … Read more
In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning. ~ T. S. Eliot This week, we in the Northern Hemisphere will be celebrating the sacred rites of Beltane, while our neighbors below the equator observe the great sabbat of Samhain. In addition to these ancient threshold ceremonies, there is a New Moon … Read more
I have seen in the world a great deal of awfulness . . . but it is goodness, it is love, it is caring, it is compassion for which we are made. ~ Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu After the intensity of the past several weeks, the astrology calms down and the Tarot Major Arcana lends us … Read more
Barn’s burnt down — now I can see the moon. ~ Mizuta Masahide (1657–1723) After last week’s card that some have characterized as the “dark night of the soul,” this week we are given its ultimate antidote, the gift of grace and navigation in deepest dark. In what could be one of the most astrological … Read more