Wake Up to Find Out that You Are the Eyes of the World
It’s been a difficult week for so many, with sobering challenges every time we look around. So here is a video to help us remember to witness for joy.
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More Suggestions for Play Gurus
Today we continue our exploration of play time in the Fifth House. This is all quoted from the essential classic (and not necessarily for women only!), The Woman’s Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life, by Jennifer Louden. Try these, or adapt as you wish (ex: maybe a red clown nose … Read more
Play Time
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. ~Jean Shinoda Bolen In the Fifth House of the astrological Wheel, we are concerned with matters to do with what is created from our love – love for the world, … Read more
Entering the Fifth House
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in Joy. Not knowing Joy, we do not know ourselves. ~ Marianne Williamson At last, I am back and (more or less) rested from my trip! However, today, I am headed right out the door again, to give readings at the Dancing … Read more
Welcoming July!
The first of July is Canada Day, so to all our friends in the vast, beautiful lands to the north, Happy Birthday, Canada! But wait! There’s more! Rabbit! Rabbit! Old English folk wisdom reports that if you say, “Rabbit! Rabbit!” or “White hares!” the very first thing on the first day of the month, you … Read more
Extravagant Play
Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture. — Italo Calvino (Journalist and writer, 1923-1985) The ego trip of pursuing ART, with a capital A is just another trap which is … Read more
Beware of Art
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair’s breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance…. To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired. — Thoreau (My thanks today to Waverly FitzGerald for this … Read more
The Zen of Movers and Shakers
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and, in time, trusted. – Martha Graham From her discussion of coping with the pitfalls of success, Julia now changes direction and adds another tool which will help us recover a sense of autonomy, which is the theme of this chapter. “Exercise,” she writes, “teaches the rewards of process.” … Read more