Excerpted from an article by Skye Thomas, based on Butterfly, by Norie Huddle After a caterpillar buries itself inside its cocoon, it waits to morph into a butterfly. The caterpillar does not simply shrink a bit and sprout wings. Instead, it sort of disintegrates into a puddle of ooze within the cocoon. If we were … Read more
We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. — John Holt, Educator (1923-1985) Today we begin our next chapter. Just as the year 2009 winds down, the end is also in sight for our work with The Artist’s Way. But there is still some crucial work to do, in terms … Read more
Although technically, the New Moon doesn’t occur until tomorrow, I invite you to begin to set your intention for it today. The Scorpio New Moon is always powerful, but this is a particularly intense astrological cycle. We are in unprecedented times. I believe we are being called to come together in this Dark Moon time, … Read more
There was a grove, immemorially inviolate, Hidden from the air above by interlacing branches… There fell fountain-streams, There gloomy images of Gods Stood guard, jutting, human-carven in tree-trunk shape… — from De Bello Civilis by Lucan (39-65 C.E.) As we approach the crossroads of the Old and the New Year at Samhain, we honor the … Read more
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. — Claude Bernard We have been spending some time in this chapter going deeper into our dark memories of the losses that our artist self has endured. From our long ago baby steps that were shamed or thwarted, to more recent attempts … Read more
Emergence, by Ann Beeching ©We’Moon 2009, At the CrossroadsWhat does “prosperity” mean when we, as a civilization, are engaged in what can only be seen as a sustained effort to destroy ourselves and our habitat? That is the question I think needs to be asked.— James French, guest essayist, The Wild Hunt As we’re grappling … Read more
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
Dark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to beBy the Full Moon’s light. I love that we are heading into our reading deprivation week just after today’s New Moon. Like the dark of the Moon, we enter a pause, full of secret potential, hidden and … Read more
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day. — Brenda Ueland During our upcoming reading deprivation week, we are urged to continue with our morning pages, and it really is the ideal time to treat … Read more
The Star – © Ellen Lorenzi-Prince, Tarot of the Crone And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here. — Wendell Berry And now, we must take a big, deep breath. It’s time to prepare for Reading Deprivation Week. Did … Read more