From my friend, astrologer Lynn Hayes. If you want to read more, this New Moon and eclipse are huge news all over the astrological blogosphere. Here are just a couple more suggestions… try here and here (be sure to read Part 2 of the second one). There is also a lot of discussion on Lynn’s … Read more
I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. ~ Florence Nightingale (Sun and Moon in Taurus) Happy Birthday to all those born under the sign of Taurus — the Sun moves into your sign today. If your Sun is in Taurus, you are generally patient and determined, with lusty … Read more
My child, when thou lookest upon the mirror, let it be as if thou wert looking on me; let it be with thee on thy couch and thy hall, and let it be to thee a holy mirror. ~ Amaterasu (Yamakage Shinto teachings) The Great Goddess (or kami) Amaterasu, is the beautiful and compassionate One … Read more
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sun in Aquarius Happy Birthday to all the free spirits and visionaries of this iconoclastic sign, for they are pointing the way to the turning of the Age for us all. Aquarians are true originals. They love to think outside … Read more
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. – Henry Miller, who had his Sun, Mercury, Midheaven, and Venus in Capricorn At the moment of the arrival of Winter Solstice, at … Read more
For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened. ~ Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self Tonight we celebrate the second Sunday of our Advent Solstice Sun-Wheel prayer circle. Advent simply means the coming of. So every Sunday between … Read more
It’s time to join together each Sunday through Yule (or Christmas) for our annual Yule Prayer-Spell. Background If you have been a regular reader of mine, you know that for many years now, starting in late November, I invite all my visitors to join together in a virtual prayer circle, or spell weaving. All spiritual … Read more
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born May 22, 1859 (a Gemini through … Read more
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