Tonight is the biggest, brightest full moon for, what, half of forever.  I can't remember where I hear about these astronomical phenomena - not too many entries back I noted the conjunction.  This occasion, however, it is snowing outside, a brief furious flurry that just lasts overnight, softening the entire landscape under the white.  Oh well, ( Read more... )

Here is hoping that everyone found a moment during the holiday that meant joy and the deep peace of the season.  May that moment have been a revelation that will stay in your heart longer than the pleasure of any gift or the taste of any treat.  Clarity and beauty find thee, love and friendship hold thee, need and worry flee the day and not come by ( Read more... )

The plastic cards were surprisingly easy to shuffle like a normal deck ( Read more... )

Up on the astral plane I have a place, found years ago, that is safe.  I found this spot during a meditation exercise.  I was supposed to be building a temple but have a forest clearing with logs and stones to sit on, a place for a fire, paths, trees, quiet.  I never was one to follow directions.  Oh, yes, and there are wolves, silent and furtive, ( Read more... )

By my bespelled Whispering Tarot ( Read more... )

"Gotta get out of bed, get a hammer and a nail -
Learn how to use my hands not just my head...."

~ emily saliers

My mundane life is pretty dull: work, family, home.  The seasons turn, the garden grows, snow falls.  I knit, sew, clean, cook.  Even the weight-loss program isn't very exciting but, perhaps that is the point: it becomes a way of life.  So ( Read more... )

It's what you do when you get to the end of the row of books and have found neither satisfaction nor inner peace.  All the study in the world cannot substitute for experience, for experimentation, for creation.  Ideas are wonderful things but then there is practice, motion and the sense of accomplishment in even the simplest task ( Read more... )

I am not one for prayers, as they are usually defined.  Give me an evocation, a message, a ritual verbal construct, to express my intent.  Hanging on Street Prophets I found this piece and, while I did not ask reproduction rights, I am saving it in its entirety, with attribution:

Blessing Prayer of Autumn
Wind of Heaven,

May we listen to your ( Read more... )

The first Times article I read yesterday was the one about the terrible Unemployment numbers for September, the largest total of 'jobs lost' in a month in the last five years.  It isn't just this large number, though: it is that total jobs have been dropping steadily, raising the unemployment rate, for at least a couple of years, that the number of ( Read more... )

"There ain't no sanity clause." Chico Marx

"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."  George Carlin

"The obscure we see eventually.  The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."  Edward R. Murrow

"Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen."  Bob Marley

"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose."  ( Read more... )