Abundance Angel © Katherine SkaggsOrdinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. — Oscar Wilde Okay, I am going to refrain from going off on a rant about The Secret, the Law of Attraction and so on. You know by now how … Read more
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. — Eileen Caddy Welcome back. I hope you’ve been feeding your Artist Self many kinds of sensual treats, and finding a more sustainable way to fold reading into your life without it upstaging … Read more
Awakening © 2009 Lisa RoughIn a dark time, the eye begins to see. — Theodore Roethke Well, I woke up this morning still a bit shaky about how I’m going to manage the logistics of my reading deprivation week, but suddenly, I’m a lot more eager about getting into it. Since I’ve done it before, … Read more
When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time. — Work of the Chariot, mentored by Daniel E. Bloxsom No doubt about it – the anger that flares up when our artist self first re-awakens can be scary. To see … Read more
© Osho Zen TarotI merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.— Duke Ellington In the Osho Zen Tarot, there is a very instructive card called “Suppression,” or the Ten of Fire. In the more traditional Rider-Waite-Smith Ten of Wands, the card shows a heavily burdened man who is soldiering on, … Read more
I am Hecate of the Ways, of the Cross-Ways, of the Darkness, of the Heaven and the Earth and the Sea; saffron-clad Goddess of the Grave, exulting among the spirits of the dead; Perseia, lover of loneliness; Queen who holdest the Keys of the world… — from The Woman at the Cross-ways by Fiona Macleod … Read more
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all. –Democritus, 460-370 B.C.E. If we are to protect our tender Artist child self from bumps, bruises and catastrophic mishaps, we have to pay attention to the company we keep. By now, we are (maybe?) coming to the conclusion that … Read more
The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when wind and weather and everything else are favorable, is never a master of his craft.— Canon Ellacombe In today’s installment, we are encouraged to select one of our monster stories, and write it down in detail. You may have already started this, the way Thalia’s utterly … Read more
Grant me this day my portion of GraceAnd switch on the Spiritual Electricity… — excerpt from my own morning prayer practice I am so excited to see the response already generated from my posts, regarding where our journey is taking us in the days ahead. But is this, as one email I’ve received suggests, a … Read more
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will occur, not because of technology, but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human. — John Naisbitt, Megatrends 2000 Winter Solstice is three weeks away and, as in past years, my response to the holiday craziness is to shift the focus here … Read more