I stopped my song and almost heart, For any eye is an evil eye That looks in onto a mood apart. – Robert Frost, A Mood Apart (1947) INITIATES and students of healing have been warned for ages not to concern themselves too much with the ways of the dark side. You learn very little, it can … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Welcome to Taurus. Welcome to The May, Beltane and the most celebrated of the Pagan high sabbats. This is the time of year to welcome and share life, love, abundance and all the gifts of the Goddess. True, any time is the right time — yet this is when it’s easiest … Read more
HOW MUCH money would we spend to prevent a catastrophe like the one that happened at Virginia Tech this week? Let’s say we knew in advance, for sure and for certain, that something like this was going to happen, let’s say some time in the next 10 years. Then let’s say that with an act … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: Tuesday’s Aries New Moon is a good place to check in with the wider cosmic landscape — it’s been a while. Through Monday, the Moon is making a close approach to the Sun, which can feel tense and introspective; the extreme waning Moon has a 12th house feeling — polarities of … Read more
WAKING UP my first morning home in Brussels after sleeping about 15 different places the past couple of months, I dreamed of chaos and riots in the streets. Horses were coming at me, but I was not scared of them, and I knew they wouldn’t hurt me. The mayhem had spread on a psychic level; … Read more