SYMPTOMS CHECK JAN 4:
We tend to forget that it takes at least three days to integrate the energies we receive, and thus wonder why we're having symptoms when "nothing big is happening." As you may recall, over the past 72 hours, we've had three
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New Year’s Tradition of Smashing Pomegranates
In Greek culture, the pomegranate fruit has symbolized fertility, luck, prosperity, renewal, and regeneration since ancient times. It has been the symbol of many goddesses, including Hera, Aphrodite an
TOADSTOOL TEA
It's not often you find, a red and white spotted toadstool
For they are very sought after, at this time of Yule
But not by humans, for the Fly Agaric is poisonous you see
It's the Gnomes that collect them, to make a special kind
As we enter into the last week of the year
Take a few moments to look back
before you move forward.
Lovingly wrap the memories you wish
to take with you
and gently discard the moments you
would rather leave behind.
Spare a thought for the wond
May The Light Of Your Soul Guide You
by John O’Donohue
May the light of your soul guide you.
May the light of your soul bless the work
You do with the secret love and warmth of your heart.
May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul.
May
Silent Night
“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosi
On this winter solstice, I drew this card;
PATIENCE
Patience is quiet hope and faith that things will turn our right. We trust the process of life. We are not hasty. We do not rush or allow ourselves to be overcome by pressure. Patience helps us to e
“Lucia” means light.
Lucia Day, December 13th, is festival of light celebrated in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking areas in Finland, and in Italy also.
In the third century, Lucia's sight was taken from her by those who feared her ligh
The Christmas Tree Fairy
by Cicely Mary Barker, (1923)
The little Christmas Tree was born
And dwelt in open air;
It did not guess how bright a dress
Some day its boughs would wear;
Brown cones were all, it thought, a tall
And grown-up Fir would bear
As I began to love myself
I found that anguish and
emotional suffering are only
warning signs that I was living
against my own truth.
Today, I know, this is Authenticity.
As I began to love myself
I understood how much
it can offend somebody
if I try
"I heard my mother asking the neighbors for salt." But we had salt in the house. I asked her why she was asking the neighbors for salt. And she answered me: —Because our neighbors don't have a lot of money and often they ask us for something.
From
The coolest thing about her is that when most people just aged, she put in one heck of an effort to heal, to grow and to become confident in her own skin. She questioned everything she was ever taught, she ate that piece of cake when she wanted to,
It’s when the earth shakes
And foundations crumble
That our light is called
To rise up.
It’s when everything falls away
And shakes us to the core
And awakens all
Of our hidden ghosts
That we dig deeper to find
Once inaccessible strength.
It’s in ti
Greed has poisoned men's souls,
has barricaded the world with hate,
has goose-stepped us into misery
and bloodshed.
We have developed speed,
but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance
has left us in want.
Our knowledge has
Misty days are their own kind of beauty.
After over a month of complete closures in all of NC, a few sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway opened this week. Yesterday, I've heard, it was absolutely packed with folks turning out in force to see the co
WELCOME NOVEMBER…
There is something about November that says ‘keep going’.
We are not quite through the year, yet the finish-line looms.
We are plunged into darkness by Mother Nature.
We are faced with the ‘season of joy’,
and yet many of us wonder
THE WITCH WOUND
They call it the ‘witch wound’.
We were punished you see, broken, slain, for shining too brightly.
So we learned to hide that spark.
We learned to play it down, play dumb, play dead.
And we were taught to fear the light within us,
May your Samhain (Halloween) be full of magic from dawn to dusk, where the day brings playful surprises and the night reveals enchanting mysteries. Here’s to a whole day of treats, laughter, and just the right amount of spooky fun!
Happy Halloween
Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before
If you ever get the chance, go alone. Walk alone, travel alone, live alone, dance alone. Just for a while. If you ever get the chance, learn who you are when the world isn't demanding you be one way or another.
Most people only know how to stand o
