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Blessings to Hecate
As you may know, on the last day of each month, I give honor to the Goddess Hecate. For once, this last day of our solar calendar month syncs up with the last night of the lunar month, and the dark of...
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The Embrace of the Dark Goddess
O Lady Of Mourning we call to Thee By the Cauldron of Hidden Sight O Lady of Keening we call to Thee By the Wings of Endless Flight O Lady of Wisdom we call to Thee By the Cave as dark as Night...
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Tarot Card of Samhain Week: Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2011 – The Sun
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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Saturday Poetry as Samhain Season Wanes
Sonnets to Orpheus, Part Two, XXIX Rainer Maria Rilke (from In Praise of Mortality, translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy) Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing...
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Tarot Card of the Week: Nov. 14-20, 2011 – Death
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~ Mary Oliver We receive the third Major Arcana card in a row this week, and with notable timing. The last time we received...
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A Prayer for Endarkenment
As we approach the longest Solstice Night, the Mother Night, we give thanks and bless all that is dark. We heal with our intention “darkness” from its racial wounds and fear spells, and we give honor...
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Mother Night
Dark shepherdess of many a golden star, Dost see me, Mother Night? ~ From The Electra of Euripides Hail and Merry Meet on this Eve of the Winter Solstice. This is the great celebration of Mother...
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Goddess Sunday – The Last Day of the Month Belongs to Hecate
I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, Queen of heaven, the principal of the Gods...
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Happy Birthday, Fabulous Sagittarius!
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying, when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~ Dale Carnegie (a true Sagittarian) This afternoon, at...
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The Instructive Embrace of the Dark: Mother Night
The walls between the worlds are thinned; The Gods’ might is at its peak, The wights and the dead walk freely among the living. Let us remember them on this Mother Night. ~ from a Heathen rite posted...
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Welcoming the Halcyon Days of 2013
Halcyon days, now wars are ending. You shall find where-e’er you sail Tritons all the while attending With a kind and gentle gale. ~ Halcyon Days by Thomas Shadwell (1642 – 1692) With the Winter...
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Sunday Poetry: In the Dark of the Moon and the Year
For Light by John O’Donohue (1956-2008) from To Bless the Space Between Us Light cannot see inside things. That is what the dark is for: Minding the interior, Nurturing the draw of growth Through...
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Welcoming the Dark of the Year at Samhain
I am the hallow-tide of all souls passing, I am the bright releaser of all pain, I am the quickener of the fallen seed-case, I am the glance of snow, the strike of rain. I am the hollow of the winter...
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This Is Mother Night – May You Be Blessed
The Fool, from Tarot of the Crone by Ellen Lorenzi-Prince, with her kind permission Deepest Dark Blessings to you and yours! It is the Eve of the Winter Solstice. This is the great celebration of...
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Friday Poetry for the Halcyon Days of Endarkenment
Welcome Mother Light with gratitude for her generous permission, blog friend, Deborah Gregory Burn all the clocks, set light to the solstice bonfire, hang the season’s wreath as we pause between dark...
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Heed Now the Pause Given by the Mother
Dark shepherdess of many a golden star, Dost see me, Mother Night? From The Electra by Euripides As has been my tradition for many years, I am encoring my annual observance of Winter Solstice Eve. May...
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Blessings to Our Beloved Dead and Blessed Samhain to You
I am the hallow-tide of all souls passing, I am the bright releaser of all pain, I am the quickener of the fallen seed-case, I am the glance of snow, the strike of rain. I am the hollow of the winter...
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Happy 15th Anniversary! Tonight We Begin!
Photo courtesy of Karen K. from 2016 We are a Circle Within a Circle With no beginning And never ending… by Deborah and Rick Hamouris A t last, dearest visitors and friends! The time has arrived for...
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Dim the Lights and Welcome the Instructive Embrace of Mother Night
Dark shepherdess of many a golden star, Dost see me, Mother Night? From The Electra by Euripides As I have done for many years, I am encoring my annual observance of Winter Solstice Eve. May this holy...
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Dim the Lights This Solstice Eve, Be Still in the Embrace of Mother Night
Dark shepherdess of many a golden star, Dost see me, Mother Night? From The Electra by Euripides As I have done for many years, I am encoring my annual observance of Winter Solstice Eve. May this holy...
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