Happy autumnal equinox!

Happy International Day Of Peace!

I think they go really well together. Gratitude for the abundance of the year, a point of astronomical balance, and hope for abundance and safety as we move into the dark half of the year seems like an excellent moment to ask Who will you make peace with today? Seems to me that if we all ( Read more... )

People aren't persuaded into new habits of thought and action by being shouted at, or ignored, or slapped down or called names ( Read more... )

It's a gorgeous day. Blue sky, white fluffy clouds, butterflies proliferating, sun shining, zephyrs breezing ( Read more... )

 16 hours to the autumnal equinox. I love archaeoastronomy.com's countdown page (they have northern and southern hemisphere countdowns).

After an early blaze in June and July, in which we had weeks on end of dry, sunny weather with no summer rains to moisten the earth, August was pretty damn poor. At first, we welcomed the rain; I was constantly ( Read more... )

Rosh Hashanah begins this evening. To all who observe it, may you have a good and sweet new year.

It's a new moon tonight, which seems appropriate to me.

I was thinking about Newness, and the need for clearing out old patterns to make way for the new. Stuff that came up (in no particular order):

• I began a new course of Kundalini Yoga last weekend ( Read more... )