Good Omens
January 22, 2021
Inauguration comes from the Latin augur: “one who sees favorable omens for success”. (The word auspicious comes from this as well.) In Ancient Rome the
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As Above, So Below
January 14, 2021
The turmoil and uncertainty we’re feeling isn’t just a reaction to what’s happening in the world. It’s a two-way street we’re on; a symbiotic, interdependent
Sharon Blackie
January 9, 2021
I’ve been a member of Dr. Sharon Blackie’s online program, This Mythic Life, for almost a year now. Each month, Sharon writes on mythic themes
Wise Elder
December 11, 2020
She told me she was 2300 years old. I told her she didn’t look a day over 2250. She said cool never heard that one
The Haunting of America
October 26, 2020
Though Halloween evolved from All Hallows Eve, a Christian holiday honoring the dead saints (hallows), its origins lie in the much older Celtic festival of
Animal Senses
September 21, 2020
I began to become convinced that this way of seeing is our most ordinary, normal, human, way of encountering our world; that in the absence
How to Save Democracy #03
September 18, 2020
Make It Personal Do you know any nonvoters or undecided voters? Times are tough and there are a lot of disenfranchised and overwhelmed humans out
How to Save Democracy #02
September 16, 2020
Vote. No matter how futile it all feels, we have to vote like our lives depend on it because our lives absolutely depend on it.