First I want to thank each of you for your wisdom and courage sharing your thoughts on this extremely loaded topic. This is NOT easy stuff to talk about. We are bombarded daily by a culture that puts competitive consuming as the highest value. And it is a culture that, from Puritanism to some of … Read more
Blessed is your gift of Beauty in all things, And the beautiful body and spirit you have given me, With which I am able to celebrate, create and participate. Blessed are your gifts of Strength and Protection That keep me from harm this day. Blessed is your gift of Courage and Daring As I stand … Read more
I am reprinting renowned astrologer Lynn Hayes’ post regarding today’s momentous astrological event. I love Lynn’s evaluations, because they are geeky enough to satisfy the “real” astrologers amongst us, and yet they make sense for those of us not schooled in the esoteric arts. Best of all, though, she is always able to point to … Read more
As long as I am offering some encore posts, here’s one that is more recent, from last year. But I think that, having concluded our Artist’s Way work, yet perhaps only just now really beginning our path as creators, this might bear repeating. Blessings! — Beth The Celtic Spirit Daily Meditations for the Turning Year … Read more
The Children of Nut – Part Two © Dan Furst From the Universal Festival Calendar for January, 2010. As so often happens in the world’s history and myths, the trickster who knows how to make the game playful can accomplish results that elude the mightiest warriors and the most patient negotiators. — Dan Furst We’re … Read more
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo How did you do on the workaholism quiz from Friday? Frankly, I am busted on almost every question. Having done this work before, you would think I would have been much … Read more
I don’t want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. — Diane Ackerman We are coming to the end of Chapter Nine, which has been about Recovering a Sense of Compassion for … Read more
Walking Between The Worlds Painting in Gouache © MorgaineCreativity comes from awakening and directing men’s higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by Heaven.— I Ching What wonderful, juicy discussions we are having! As creatives, as magical people, as awakeners and the awakening, we are all walking the … Read more
© Osho Zen Tarot The significant problems we have in the world today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. — Albert Einstein As we take the steps necessary to restore our sense of integrity, we are cultivating new ways to understand and identify our true creative self. … Read more
Writer’s Block © PenelopeCreativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. — Edwin Land, scientist and inventor of Polaroid film and the Land camera Every day, we are witnessing more signs that our economy has gone haywire, and no one quite knows (much less agrees!) what to do about it. Some say that as we spend … Read more