Agony and Ecstasy

DRAW ANOTHER CUP OF JOYCompassionate Motherwhose grace is beyond eternityMy friends and I will draw another cup of joyfrom the wellspringof your radiant heart…from Soft Moon Shining, by Ethan Walker III We are considering one of the gifts bestowed upon us by the youngest of the Graces, Aglaia. The Grace of splendor and beauty, She … Read more

Experience

Trumpets and violins, I can hear in the distanceI think they’re callin’ our name.Maybe now you can’t hear them,But you will, if you justTake hold of my hand.Oh, but are you experienced?Have you ever been experienced?Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.— Jimi Hendrix, dead at age 28 of prescription drug overdose We are considering one of … Read more

Blessings of the Full Snow Moon

This is the Wolf Moon, Quiet Moon, Snow Moon,Cold Moon, and also called the Chaste MoonLet the waters settleyou will see stars and moonmirrored in your Being.— Rumi We are considering one of the gifts bestowed upon us by the youngest of the Graces, Aglaia. The Grace of splendor and beauty, She awakens the Serpent … Read more

Happy New Year!

Take out, then take in Bad luck will begin. Take in, then take out Good luck comes about. As the most wonderful Priestess of Time , Waverly FitzGerald tells us, “Everything you do on this day has magical implications for the coming year. So don’t take anything out (not even the trash), and don’t lend … Read more

The Crone

Circle of Life © Frank Howell“The Crone is the ancient holy one. She is grandmother, witch and hag. She has been ignored, trivialized, blamed and feared, for she holds powers that others deny. Powers of time and transformation. Powers you may fear, but would do better to understand. The Crone is the Mother of all … Read more

The Ripening

Sweet Surrender © by Leslie MarcusThe RipeningBy Kay CristaWith my thanks to LibbyAnn for sending this to me! This Livinghas softened the hard fruitof my being Everyday, tendernessclaims more of metaking me holyinto ripeness Let me notfall from the branchripe but untasted Rather, let the Belovedpluck me in ripenessand pierce me with His bite Releasing … Read more

The Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Hate was just a legend,War was never known.People worked togetherAnd they lifted many stones.Then they carried them to the flatlandsBut they died along the wayThen they built up with their bare handsWhat we still can’t do today.And I know she’s living thereAnd she loves me to this dayI still can’t remember whereOr how I lost … Read more

Why We Need Our Solstice Spell…

S.O.S.by Leonard Cohen ©1995 Take a long time with your anger,sleepy head.Don’t waste it in riots.Don’t tangle it with ideas.The Devil won’t let me speak,will only let me hintthat you are a slave,your misery a deliberate policyof those in whose thrall you suffer,and who are sustainedby your misfortune. The atrocities over there,the interior paralysis over … Read more

Initiation Song

Sea Flower of the Morning ©Adam Scott MillerInitiation Song from the Finders Lodgeexcerpted from Always Coming Homeby Ursula K. LeGuin Please bring strange things.Please come bringing new things.Let very old things come into your hands.Let what you do not know come into your eyes.Let desert sand harden your feetLet the arch of your feet be … Read more