Old flames of burning times are new friends in these times, warming us joining us connecting the circle under the moon’s knowing light. We remember, we remake old ways for a new world. Owl eyes scry burning embers dragon-shaped flame-spewing emissaries of the old goddess. By Mary Petiet, an excerpt from Owl Magic In […]
Poetry
Find Your Pomegranate Seeds by Mary Petiet
Persephone picks a handful of flowers from a warm spring field and seeks their seeds within. Persephone travels willingly or not, with Hades deep below the earth, owl-led each year to the place where seeds are born. And so Persephone finds the seeds of one potential: ice caps melting, tides flooding, refugees moving, oceans choked […]
Kali Ma – The Red Goddess by Renee Starr
In every culture there are one or more goddesses who are archetypes of the ‘Red Goddess.’ This name is often used to describe a goddess who is powerful but dark, evil, or destructive. However, I see the Red Goddess as representing something else. For me, she is the goddess of many facets of our feminine […]
Beltane Moon by Molly Remer
I didn’t just stop to smell the lilacs I sang to them too praising their beauty as I pressed my nose into their blooms. I rolled redbud flowers across my tongue and ate dandelions straight from the stem feeling yellow petals in my teeth. I savored the flavor of a violet and rubbed mint leaves […]
Rituals for Bathing Your Home, Gratitude, & the Full Moon by Gwynne Warner
I’m wishing the happiest of birthdays to 10,000 Blessings Feng Shui! She’s 16 years old today and I realize I’ve now sent more than 400 newsletters over the years–wow! My heart swells with gratitude for my teachers, especially Grandmaster Lin Yun, Grandmaster Lillian Too, HH the Dalai Lama, Catherine Ingram and Andrew Harvey; for my […]
Vasant Panchami and Mantras for the Goddess Saraswati #MantraMonday
“May Goddess Saraswati, who is fair like the jasmine-colored moon, and whose pure white garland is like frosty dew drops; who is adorned in radiant white attire, on whose beautiful arm rests the veena, and whose throne is a white lotus; who is surrounded and respected by the Gods, protect me. May you fully remove my […]
ALL – A Poem by Janine Canan
All the mantras that can ever be said, I shower like gold-dust on your feet. And when You walk, the universe lights up like the Sun. Golden Goddess, whose only form is the illumination of Love, Mother of Creation. supreme vibration of Bliss, who can ever know or not know You— the one true Self […]
Hazels at the Pool – A Poem for Brigit by Mael Brigde
Nut-Fed Fish brown hazels ring leaf-laced waters nine sweet cracking maidens elbow to elbow grow branch twined in sisterly branch around the sacred spring Brigit bestower of wisdom drops hazel-mast fat nut-meats into glint-back salmons’ waiting mouths speckles blossom imbas grows they who would be transformed they who seek the second sight they […]
Summer Love by Molly Remer
Summer Love Too busy. Too buzzy. Not enough time. To do. To do. To do. Scramble. Hurry. Tight chest Tight breath Tight heart WAIT! Listen to Summer. Languid. Warm. Sweaty. Hot. Petals soften Juice drips Kissed by sunlight Bathed with rain Sweet stickiness. Passion. Summer is heavy. Hot and ready. Blooming and dripping. Unfolding. Becoming. […]
Brigit – Keeper of Cattle by Mael Brigde
Keeper of Cattle Brigit divine cowherd keep us from straying save us from harm tend us your rumbling wayward herd lead us to sloping summer meadows watch over us beneath the high sun bring us home again when nights grow long your mother’s companions Brigit bathed you in milk at your birth […]
