First, a prayer-spell for the US election day: Lady of Power, Lady of Grace, We ask you to spread your cloak Of cobalt blue over the country On this election day. May there be peace. May there be kindness. May there be gratitude For all election workers and officials. When the votes are counted, May [...] Learn more →
The arrival of the new moon stamps the moonth with an initiating energy that shifts and develops through a cycle of growth, fullness, and descent that we can follow to practice lunar living in a solar world. Each moonth I look to the Tarot’s astrological correspondences for the new moon to find three cards (a [...] Learn more →
The height of this moonth’s cycle comes with the full moon arriving overnight tonight, the 15th to the 16th (exact at 12:14am ET on the 16th), and offers a revelation about how the lunar energies initiated on the April 30th new moon are developing. The new moon, guided by its association with the Teacher face [...] Learn more →
Wandering along the Mill River pathway in mid-April, I encountered my first flowering Trout Lilies of the season. They raised their yellow petals just above the dead leaf litter on a turning of the path. I paused, then pulled from my notebook one of the handful of Tarot cards I carried. The Ancestor emerged and [...] Learn more →
The essential insight I have to offer is this: Grief changes. You change and the grief changes, and it all flows, yes, like a river with its white water and frozen edges, its quiet stretches and unfamiliar banks (though some surprise you with their beauty). Then the river reaches the ocean, and what you thought [...] Learn more →