Every morning I forget how it is. I watch the smoke mount In great strides above the city. I belong to no one. Then I remember my…… Read more “The Hermit’s Reckoning”

“I am always under direct inspiration. I know just what to do and give instant obedience to my intuitive leads.” According to Florence Scovel Shinn, a turn…… Read more “Waves of Eclipses”

  With Beltane (the fire festival welcoming summer in its blazing, sensual glory) around the corner, the most common topic asked by tarot clients and seekers alike…… Read more “Wax Tales of Love”

“A cold spring, the violet was flawed on the lawn. For two weeks or more the trees hesitated; the little leaves waited. One day in a chill…… Read more “Seeds of Love On The Spring Equinox”

Many of my friends celebrate New Year’s as a perfunctory holiday or as “amateur night,” because the calendar year is a creation of modern times. Pagans and…… Read more “Eve of Imbolc”

As an enthusiast of the art of comics, one that I’ve kept taped to various incarnations of vision boards is, of all things, a Christian Jack Chick-inked pamphlet,…… Read more “Father Time”

For my one-year wedding anniversary I escaped to Woodstock and experienced the starry night sky: a cabin surrounded by woods complete with sherbet colored sunrises and falling…… Read more “Hey, Jupiter”

“The candles are lighted, the hearthstones are swept, the fires glow red. We shall welcome them out of the night, our home-coming dead.” ~ Hallow-E’en 1917 by…… Read more “Will-o’-the-Wisps & Samhain Season”