For the past several days, in my neck of the woods in North Carolina, it has been unseasonably warm. In fact, just yesterday it was about 70°, rainy and humid. I barely slept last night because of the impressively loud, torrential rain that fell literally all night long, flooding the little stream in our back…
Tag: nature
Chasing Waterfalls
I don’t set much store by the man-made calendar year. I personally consider spring to be the start of a new year. But we do still have a new moon tomorrow, January 2nd, the first of the new calendar year that we modern humans are still bound to, like it or not, and that still…
The Egg Cowrie – Pisces New Moon Oracle Message
This new moon’s oracle message doesn’t come from a Tarot or oracle deck. While I, like many modern pagans and magic practitioners, own several different decks, none of them felt right to use to gain an intuitive message from this Piscean new moon. As much as I appreciate printed decks and cartomancy, I find myself…
Cataracts and Hurricanoes Part II: The Eye of the Storm
“Breathe,” says the storm’s Eye, “here is a moment of calm for you…”
Cataracts and Hurricanoes Part I: The Beauty of the Ultimate Storm
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o’ the world! Crack nature’s moulds, an germens spill at once,…
The Oracle of Water 