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Weekly Wisdom: The Ever-Faithful, Ever-Changing Circle of Life

January 2, 2012

Today the Sun is in Capricorn, the waxing Moon is in Aries, and we are a third of the way through the “tide” that began at Winter Solstice.  We’re also a day past New Year’s in the Gregorian calendar, and it’s a legal holiday here in the states. It’s a good day to contemplate the [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: Reflecting on the Year Gone By

December 27, 2011

Like my friend Waverly Fitzgerald, I always do a Life Review during the week between Solstice and New Year’s. Before dreaming new dreams for 2012, I take a look at the year gone by. (Waverly calls this “shutting the door on the old year.”)  This week, I gave the following exercise to the folks who [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: Emerging from the Tomb/Womb . . .

December 19, 2011

This is the week of Solstice, the Return of the Sun! It is the time when the Sun emerges from the dark of the year, and is reborn to gain in strength until its peak next Summer Solstice.   The Awakening card features the tomb/womb of Newgrange, Ireland, where the sun’s first rays on Solstice [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: Silence & Solitude

December 13, 2011

This week’s card reminds us that, even though celebration is in the air, and there are cookies to be baked, gifts to be made, and a dozen other things to do — Mama Gaia Herself is slowing down, and dreaming deep dreams. Likewise, we need to schedule in quiet time during these busy days, to [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: Soulful Shopping

December 5, 2011

’Tis the season to  . . . be constantly bombarded with messages of consumerism.  Most of us who are on a spiritual path of some kind are turned off by the emphasis on gift-buying at Yuletide.  And yet many of us earn our living by selling goods and services that come from our hearts. And [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: The Medicine of Music

November 28, 2011

In the states, Thanksgiving is over and our thoughts turn towards Yuletide.  It’s a liminal time, as one tide becomes another. We take down our All Hallows ancestor altars and bring out the holly, the ivy, and the bayberry candles.  Yet we are still technically in the season of the Old Ones, the Elders. The [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: Gratitude and Preparation

November 21, 2011

I think of the Four of Earth as the thanksgiving card.  The glorious autumn scene reminds us of the season of harvest and abundance, as well as our preparations for the winter to come. So it’s a fitting card for the week of Thanksgiving, the holiday, in the U.S. Giving thanks — gratitude — is [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: Passing on a Legacy

November 14, 2011

Yet another Ten card shows up during this season of the ancestors.  This one is a particularly poignant one for me, as the elderly gentleman in the card is an image of my own father, not long before he died. Pop used to love a daily walk through our favorite nature preserve on the island, [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: A Bittersweet Time of Letting Go

November 7, 2011

When I pulled the Ten of Air this morning, I heard Ruth Barrett’s voice inside my head, singing this chant: “Go to the very edge, where the old world ends And something else begins, Something else begins.” Ah, such a perfect tune for this Dark Night of the Year. All the Gaian Ten’s are cards of [...]

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Weekly Wisdom: Faith, Hope & Love

August 15, 2011

Are “faith, hope and love” only Christian virtues?  I think not. I think we find them in spiritual traditions all over the world, and very potently in the tarot Star card. One of the beautiful things about these cards is that they always seem to give us the perfect message at the perfect moment. Personally, [...]

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