Nina Simone lyrics Birds flying high you know how I feel

Good Omens

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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Pavel Tchelitchew Spiral Head

As Above, So Below

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

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Sharon Blackie

Sharon Blackie

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

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Giant Sequoia tree

Wise Elder

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

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Painting by Aron Wiesenfeld

The Haunting of America

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

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Orange leaf in orange sunlight

Animal Senses

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

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The Trickster Within

Using Magic to Manifest the Life of your Dreams I saw a client recently who was struggling with direction in her life. Should she get

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Painting of Greek God Pan

Wild Times

We have crossed a threshold. In just over three months, the virus has spread across the entire world. With confirmed cases in every country –

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Wenceslas Hollar illustration of the fable

The Moral of the Story

Look to the irony in any story and you’ll find the moral, the gospel, the very reason for that story existing in the first place.

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