Dance of the Harvest © Rik BerryTrumpets, harps, hollow-throated horns, pipers, timpanists, unwearied… fiddlers, gleemen, bone-players and bag-pipers, a rude crowd, noisy, profane, roaring and shouting.— Medieval eyewitness account of Lughnasadh festival at Teltown Happy Birthday today to Harry Potter and, coincidentally, Madame Helena Blavatsky, author of Isis Unveiled, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, and … Read more
© Brian Zichi Lorentz Also known as the Corn Planting Moon or the Milk Moon, this month’s Full Moon is near apogee, so it will appear to be the smallest full moon of 2008. (For example, in terms of apparent size, it will appear 12.3 percent smaller than the Full Moon we’ll see in December). … Read more
Source of image, alas, unknown tome. If you know it, email me.He that plants trees loves others besides himself.— English proverb The evidence is mounting that there are vital physical and emotional benefits from letting children play freely in Nature, and that the lack of this access has created a poisonous brew of problems for … Read more
I have not made up my mind yet, but here is some powerful food for thought, about the forces that are driving our abilities to make wise decisions in the first place:Goodbye To All That (#2)by Robin Morgan Goodbye To All That was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially … Read more
The atrocities over there,The interior paralysis over here–Pleased with the better deal?You are clamped down.You are being bred for pain. — Leonard Cohen Recently, I have seen a dramatic spike in my clients who are struggling with sorrows that appear to have more to do with their life’s journey than particular life events. I am … Read more
Garbage in, Garbage out.— George Fuechsel, IBM 305 RAMAC technician/instructor To realign ourselves with the Graces of Beauty, Mirth, and Blossoming, we are considering how the weeks between Imbolc and Ostara (and now, during the waning Moon) are an ideal time to clear space for them to thrive. I would suggest that one way to … Read more
The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.— Kofi Annan To realign ourselves with the Graces of Beauty, Mirth, and Blossoming, we are considering how the weeks between Imbolc and Ostara are an ideal time to create space for them to thrive. I would suggest that … Read more
You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it…You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is … Read more
Page of Clouds – © Osho Zen TarotWhat the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. — W. H. Auden We are invoking and celebrating the Graces, and their many gifts to us regarding beauty, mirth and blossoming. … Read more
At duskCome to my hut –The crickets willSerenade you, and I willIntroduce you to the moonlit woods. — Ryokan Taigu (1758-1831) Today, we pause in our journey to Graceland, to observe this very important celestialFull Moon, it is also a Lunar eclipse, the last total one until 2010. Since different parts of the Moon will … Read more