Owl's Wings

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Dearest friends and "followers!" Today is the day I've been eagerly looking forward to sharing with you! Thanks to the design genius and artfulness of Web-Goddess, Tarot creator, and beloved friend Joanna Powell Colbert, I am delighted to announce the launch of my new, beautiful, streamlined combination website...

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Sentinel © Michael CarrollI can see the lights in the distanceTrembling in the dark cloak of nightCandles and lanterns are dancing, dancingA waltz on All Souls Night. -- Loreena MckennittThe Wheel of Time turns, and we are now...

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We honor this night the Dark Goddess, the Mysteries, the Blessed Dead, and the Mighty Ones of the Craft. I send my love and gratitude to all my teachers, elders, brothers and sisters who dance the Spiral Dance with me in spirit, if not in flesh, this night. And I...

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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. -- Exodus 22:18On this day in 1985, the American House and Senate dropped the “Helms amendment,” which would have barred the IRS from granting tax-exempt status to groups that promote Witchcraft. And on this day in 1998, only eleven years ago, the...

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Heart of the Cailleach by thefabulous Shakti Genaine There was a grove, immemorially inviolate, Hidden from the air above by interlacing branches ...There fell fountain-streams,There gloomy images of GodsStood guard, jutting, human-carven in tree-trunk shape... -- from De Bello Civilis by Lucan (39-65 C.E.)As we approach the crossroads of...

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The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves.--Sara TeasdaleToday, according to the Celtic Tree calendar, we enter the month of The Reed. The Celtic Tree Year is divided into thirteen lunar months. Each has a tree (or in...

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The Cherokee always teach their young to listen. We hear not the crash of cymbals or the noise that rides the airwaves -- but the sweet song of the meadow, the even rhythmic sounds of nature. It is here where the dikanowadidohi angel sings.-- A Cherokee Feast of...

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The ChariotIn reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first. -- Harry TrumanFor the first time in all these years of my posts, we are visited by The Chariot. How perfect that it appears this...

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Blessed be....

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Today, Oct. 24, people in 181 countries are coming together for the most widespread day of environmental action in the planet’s history. At over 5200 events around the world, people are gathering to call for strong action and bold leadership on the climate crisis.What does the number 350 mean?350 is...

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Artist unknown - if you recognize this, let me know; I'd love to give credit!Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living. -- Anais NinMore exercises as we complete Recovering A Sense of Strength....

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Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood. -- Benjamin FranklinI don’t know about you, but I found that yesterday’s exercise was tremendously, actually ridiculously, helpful! In my head, all my fantasies have remained fantasies. They switch from obvious and easy to arrogant and impossible, because my belief...

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Scorpios are often considered the most intense, profound, powerful members of the zodiac (and I swear, I’m not just saying that because I’m afraid to be on your bad side, Scorpio! Love ya! Smooches!). Even when they appear self-controlled and calm there is a seething intensity of emotional energy under...

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Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.-- Seth GodinWe continue with the exercises that will finalize our journey through Chapter Eight. First, Julia warns us that this task may be difficult, but we should do it anyway. I did not find it difficult,...

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adaptation found from original triptychShaman by Martha RuppertWhen it all seems impossible, focus on the point in front of you. Follow it like a hawk and forget everything else. -- Carlos CastanedaThis week, we are finishing up Chapter Eight, Recovering a Sense of Strength. In fact, the only work left...

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The Six of CupsThe reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. -- Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974)This is an enigmatic card, to...

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Dark Moon Goddess - Libra by StarweaverDark of the MoonNew beginningsDark of the MoonPlant a seed tonightDark of the MoonWhat we envisionWill come to be by the Full Moon’s light.Tonight is the dark of the Moon, the new beginning of one of our most important annual lunar cycles. It is...

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“May you be blessed with good fortune as long as Lord Ganesha's trunk,wealth and prosperity as big as His stomach,happiness as sweet as His ladoos,and may your troubles be as small as His mouse.”-- Traditional Diwali blessing Diwali (also known as Divali or Deepavali) is celebrated starting today, and continuing...

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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.-- Agnes de MilleWe’ve been working with the idea that instead of the ultimately self-defeating practice of being paralyzed by the prospects of where our creative path may take us, it is extremely important...

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Evergreen Surrealist Pearl FryarI walk slowly, but I never walk backward. -- Abraham LincolnI left you with a real cliff-hanger yesterday! Rather than moving gently ahead one step at a time in our artistic recovery, we have a tendency to be addicted to Big Drama, so we rush madly to...

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Andy GoldsworthyThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time. -- Leo TolstoyWhy is it so hard to take things in baby steps? Why are micromovements (which seem ridiculously obvious, once you think about them) such a revelation?I think that part of it comes from an unspoken expectation...

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You can’t use up your creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -- Maya AngelouAfter a lifetime of repressing and thwarting our creative urges, we may want to swing radically back in the other direction. So, we may suddenly find ourselves overwhelmed by the enormous changes we...

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Eight of WandsPeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. -- Andrew Carnegie We welcome the hopeful appearance of the Eight of Wands this week. The Eights of the Tarot are about abilities, self-directed action, and moving ahead. And...

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Peace of Sonoma County © Dana HawleyThe Love of OctoberW. S. MerwinA child looking at ruins grows youngerbut coldand wants to wake to a new nameI have been younger in Octoberthan in all the months of springwalnut and may leaves the colorof shoulders at the end of summera month that...

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