Pisces sun, Scorpio Moon, Scorpio Rising. ****************************************** Animal totems Wolf/Hummingbird ****************************************** “If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ***************************************** I am the Dark and the Light, I am an Empath, a Witch, a Shaman, an Anarchist until death and beyond. It doesn’t matter anymore what titles I give myself, I am. I believe in the truth, although the majority of human beings find it uncomfortable or they refuse to even consider the truth. The majority find it easier to blindly follow the herd. Things, TV, running from here to there, filling heads with fluff have made us complacent, weak minded. I am first and foremost a spiritual being who prefers the Pagan/Druid way though I intertwine a myriad of traditions and have found great wisdom in the philosophy of the LHP. I love all kinds of music it speaks to my soul. I love to write and to read and to experience the mystical. Animals and the Plant world are my familiars. Gardening and communing with nature is my peace. I have learned that Fear kills everything that is true and right, and if you carry it with you, and do not follow your instinct, that gut recognition that comes from beyond the fear, fear binds you, blinds you, and you will never be truly alive. Do not fear to believe in yourself above all others. Be blessed. . ***************************************** "The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.” ― Arundhati Roy ******************************************** ******************************************** “The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.” -Katherine Mansfield ******************************************
Have you every seen dust
dancing in sunbeams?
How it glitters like flecks of gold?
Maybe that is the true alchemy.
Not chasing what something is,
but seeing it in a new light.
What if a hundred rose-breasted grosbeaks
flew in circles around your head? What if
the mockingbird came into the house with you and
became your advisor? What if
the bees filled your walls with honey and all
you needed to do was ask them and they would fill
the bowl? What if the brook slid downhill just
past your bedroom window so you could listen
to its slow prayers as you fell asleep? What if
the stars began to shout their names, or to run
this way and that way above the clouds? What if
you painted a picture of a tree, and the leaves
began to rustle, and a bird cheerfully sang
from its painted branches? What if you suddenly saw
that the silver of water was brighter than the silver
of money? What if you finally saw
that the sunflowers, turning toward the sun all day
and every day – who knows how, but they do it – were
more precious, more meaningful than gold?
'How Would You Live Then?', by Mary Oliver
"Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er." ~ Dorothea Lange
Enlightenment isn’t an escape.
It’s seeing, really seeing,
what’s right in front of you.
It’s staying.
Even when it’s uncomfortable.
Even when it’s brutally mundane.
There’s holiness in every breath.
In doing the small things with love.
In the life you already have.
excerpt from 'The Forgotten Corners', by Jeff Foster
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