Gaia ©Halo Sharp New Energy TarotEarth PsalmsPsalm 95by Angela Magara Come and sing, let us sing to the rocks who stand with Life.Let joy resound with a great noise.Life holds sacredness in her generous hand.Be not silent in your love. Sing of earth who holds the caves within.Whose body breathes hills and mountainsAnd throbs with … Read more
In memory of my mother on her birthday.EAST COKER(No. 2 of ‘Four Quartets’)excerpted from Part V.by T.S. Eliot Home is where one starts from. As we grow olderThe world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatedOf dead and living. Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after,But a lifetime burning in every momentAnd not the … Read more
Night Mirrorby Li-Young Lee Li-Young, don’t feel lonelywhen you look upinto great night and findyourself the far face peeringhugely out from betweena star and a star. All that spacethe nighthawk plunges through,homing, all that distance beyond embrace,what is it but your own infinity. And don’t be afraidwhen, eyes closed, you look inside youand find night … Read more
The birth of the Goddess Inanna has been celebrated annually on this day since ancient times. Inanna is the Sumerian Queen of Heaven and Earth, and a deity who presides over both love and war. Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart Inanna child of the Moon God a soft bud swelling her queen’s robe cloaks the … Read more
The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry When despair grows in meand I wake in the middle of the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. … Read more
Winterby Danica Lee, Age 11Sanford, NC© Stone Soup Magazine The flowers callTheir last farewellTo the woodsAs winter comesTo wilt their petals. The snow fallsUpon brown leavesFallen on the roofsOf houses strungWith sparkling lights. The crisp airAnd glittering frostThe little puffs of breathAnd mugs of steamy teaOnly come in winter.
Now let us rest easy, my friends and beloveds. Enjoy with me the Halcyon Days. The Sun has surely turned back towards the growing Light (in the Northern Hemisphere). So now let us draw close to one another, and absorb the gifts of the Dark and Quiet. You, Darknessby Rainer Maria Rilke You darkness, that … Read more
Brothers, Sisters, Come and SingTo the tune of Hark the Herald, Angels Sing I.Brothers, sisters, come and singGlory to the new-born King!Gardens peaceful, forests wildCelebrate the Winter Child! Now the time of growing starts!Joyful hands and joyful hearts!Cheer the Yule log as it burns!Once again, the Sun returns, Brothers, sisters, come and sing!Glory to the … Read more
The Holly and the Ivyadapted by Susan M. Shaw The holly and the ivyWhen they are both full grownOf all the trees that are in the woodThe holly bears the crown. The rising of the sunAnd the running of the deerThe playing of the merry tunesAs we Pagans sing with cheer. The holly bears a … Read more
Hymn of the Forests (excerpt)by Fiona McLeod (William Sharpe)We are the harps which the winds play,A myriad tones in one vast soundThat the earth hearkens night and day —A ceaseless music swaying roundThe whole wide world, each voiceful treeEchoing the wave-chants of the sea. For even as inland waves that moanBut break not ‘midst the … Read more