This week, I am featuring a Goddess whose feast day Americans will be celebrating on Wednesday (whether they realize it or not). No one can explain Her better than one of Her most public, devoted Priestesses, Selena Fox. So today, I offer Selena’s own article, almost in its entirety — a loving homage to this … Read more
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States, Sun and Moon in Virgo (Aug. 27, 1908) The Sun … Read more
The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. – Hugh MacLeod, from Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity What do we do when the pottery class we want to take is at the exact same time as the Little League practice we’re expected … Read more
Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus,but don’t sit down without one of the Gods. — D.H. Lawrence Any discussion of Temperance, by me at least, would of course have to include a brief mention of the Temperance Tarot card. While the original Greek virtue was called sophrosyne, our word … Read more
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. — Benjamin Franklin Today, we meet the last, and perhaps most misunderstood, of the four classical virtues. Because it is much maligned, we will spend a couple of days working with it. Temperance (sophrosyne in Greek) is the practice of moderation. It was one of the four … Read more
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.— Aristotle The study of wisdom, sophology, is a vast area that has fascinated the students of human nature for millennia. For a more in-depth article that encompasses the Virtue of Wisdom in more detail than I offered yesterday, you might visit this link. Meantime, our journey continues, … Read more
Vasudhara – Goddess of Wealth and Wisdom In our age… men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering.~ T. S. Eliot One of the four classical virtues, wisdom, or prudence, is arguably fundamental to the proper … Read more
Courage is not simply one of the virtues,but the form of every virtue at the testing point.— C.S. Lewis Most of you have caught on by now that it is no coincidence that I am writing about Virtue at this pivotal time of choices about our future. Of course, I had lots of help, for … Read more
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. — Gautama Buddha As my friend Madeline writes in her inspiring astrology blog, “An Aries Moon calls for ACTION and some of that action is MEANT to be..self-centered. You wake up rarin’ to go and your physical energy is high. You’re in … Read more
The Tao has no place for pettiness, and nor has Virtue. Pettiness is dangerous to Virtue; pettiness is dangerous to the Tao. It is said, rectify yourself and be done. — Chuang Tzu, Chinese philosopher, major thinker in Taoism (circa 360 BCE -275 BCE) The origins of the word virtue are from the Latin virtutem … Read more