Winter Solstice

Take Back The Night

by Samantha on December 19, 2012

The numinous has been leeched from our bones by the radioactive society we’ve created.  We worship the maudlin and horrific, the mundane and safe.  We are frightened by mystery and magic.  The ancient mystery of the Winter Solstice has departed, gone in pre-Christmas flounce and flurry.  What was most sacred is now scarcely noted, roared [...]

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Shankh Mudra for lighting the Winter Solstice

by Samantha on December 17, 2012

    Extend L thumb and circle it with R hand, closing L hand around the R. Touch R thumb to L middle finger.  Hold to your heart, or throat. This mudra is used during many Hindu rituals to announce opening of the temple doors, letting in the light.  Shankh mudra assists us to open [...]

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Fiery New Moon Moving Initiating Winter Solstice

by Samantha on December 14, 2012

Astrologly Notes  We are jumping into this New Moon cycle with the Moon’s fiery birth in Sagittarius, and Uranus, the planet of all things un-expected, shape-shifting, and sudden- finally going direct, after its six months of backward motion.  You might see great ideas opening up, especially if you put something on the back-burner in July. It’s a [...]

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Impossible to Predict

by Samantha on December 7, 2012

Is there a better reason for living than to discover who we are?  Is there anything more powerful than becoming our true colors, then sending them out to seep into the world, where as wild dyes they/we sustain, transform, and pigment everyone and everything touched? As the forces of change build to a momentous turning [...]

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Holy Ground-Holy Sky

by Samantha on December 21, 2010

In the sacred hour, Known to owls and the mis-begotten,  Barred doors slant open Materia Magicke seeps through. Ageless wisdom thresholds To take the hand Inward to the earth’s center. Out by the birdbath and ancient Oak. The royal sky spreads skeletal in Ice-dark diamonds. Glistening through shadows Patterned on hoar frost. Winter’s constellations; Hydra, [...]

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