From my friend, awesome astrologer Lynn Hayes. May your new beginnings be brilliant! ~ Beth Aquarius New Moon, February 10, 2013 by Lynn Hayes The Moon is New in Aquarius today, offering up an opportunity to surrender all of the trappings of personality that culminated at the Leo Full Moon two weeks ago and opening … Read more
My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarten. I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, helping to dispel darkness, ignorance, and stupidity. ~ Michael Moore Today is Day Six of my Thirty Days of Thanksgiving. And it’s Election Day in the United States. So today, I give heartfelt … Read more
Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. ~ Charlie Chaplin, in ‘The Great Dictator’ We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly … Read more
As you know, on weekends, I like to step aside and instead welcome the voices and art of other visionaries. For many years, I have loved this piece, and I share it in my Herbal Magick and my Plant Allies classes. I hope it will inspire you to see our Green Guardians with new eyes … Read more
One must feel grateful that the idylls of the forest are still being acted, and that there are still those whose vision is quick enough to catch sight of them and whose pens have the cunning to put before others the glimpses. ~ Lady Rosalind Northcote, early 1900s This time next week, I’ll be at … Read more
Please celebrate the Year of the Hierophant with me as I share Part Two of my guest blog, from one of the greatest living Speaker of Mysteries — the sublime Caitlín Matthews. I invite you to post the results of your readings, if you try the enclosed spread. And once again, thank you, Caitlín. ~ … Read more
Every January for the last 12 years or so, I have written an essay discussing the Tarot Year, which is based on the Major Arcana card that corresponds to the one- or two-digit number that we get when we add up (and sometimes reduce) the digits of the year. If you recall from my series … Read more
Many thanks and blessings to Diane Lang (a.k.a. Neith) and her beautiful astrology blog, “Libra Seeking Balance” for today’s post about this powerful New Moon. ~ Beth New Moon in Capricorn December 24, 2011 by Diane Lang © 2011 The flavor of the New Moon at 2° 34′ Capricorn on 24 December 2011, 10:07 AM … Read more
A thousand thanks to blog friend Susannah Azzaro for sending me this video. She has shared it on her beautiful blog today, also. In view of the shameful, violent crack-downs on peaceful citizens exercising their First Amendment rights, and which are going largely unreported, at this pivotal moment of transformation, I offer this. It is … Read more
Sparks from the hearth Of the Queen of Death and Life Swarm through the dark, Dance through the Night. by J. Robin Gall from Second Chants, Serpentine Music Productions This is the Great Sabbat of Samhain (pronounced SAH-wen, or SOW (rhymes with cow) -wen), and is the third and final harvest, marking Summer’s end. It … Read more