Truth...

Set Your Life on Fire

"Set your life on fire.

Seek those who fan your flames."

- Rumi

What You Seek...

"What you seek is seeking you"

-Rumi



Now and Then....

“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

Guillaume Apollinaire.

More Autumnal Delights!

These gorgeous photos were taken by Sonia and found via: http://soniamasarova.wordpress.com/

....and I just adore them! Even better knowing they were taken only a short way from where we live! I see a new road trip on the horizon...

Oh, I love Autumn!

I just really wanted to say, I love Autumn!

The Liquidambar tree in my front yard looks quite delicious at the moment...so many colours to behold...

Beautiful sunlight, streaming through the rainbow leaves...

A collection of Autumn findings...

And a beautiful Autumn sunset, as seen from my bedroom, whilst I'm rugged up with a sniffy nose...

Yay for Autumn! You make me happy...

All photographs are mine - click on them if you want to see them bigger, better, brighter!

Venus to appear in once-in-a-lifetime event

Wowswers! We really are living in a great time for witnessing planetary transits! Lucky us! I wonder how this Solar-Venusian event will impact us down here on our beautiful Earth? Hmmmmm....

Venus to appear in once-in-a-lifetime event

Alice and The Hades Full Moon

Following on from woodland dreamer's post...

The Full Moon in Scorpio really shines a light on all those dark and mysterious things that we would often like to ignore, bury or hide away.
This Hades Full Moon allows us to traverse the underground; it gives us permission to reflect and transform ourselves from within.

Last years Scorpio Full Moon - May 2011

So, just as Alice ventured underground, so must we, if we are to face ourselves and allow the necessary changes to take place...

"I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!"

"Who Are You?"

 

"What Size Do You Want To Be?"

The Scorpio Full Moon also feels like a culmination of the Taurus New Moon. A time to reflect on what we began at the New Moon, and what we actually achieved. After all, it is really a cycle, with Taurus and Scorpio being polar opposites on the zodiac wheel.

If we look back even further, to the New Moon in Scorpio six months ago... what transformations started back then? Now is the time to use the power of the Scorpio Full Moon to reflect and seek clarity on those things too. How far have you come? How much further do you need to go? As Alice said "I wonder if I've been changed in the night?"



Artworks by Arthur Rackham

My own photograph

Speaking of all things Moon-ly...

The coming Full Moon in Scorpio is on my mind.... I always have such a strong feeling of kinship with this particular lunar event.

Encouraging us to really go deeply and intimately within ourselves, the psyche... to look at the meaning of life, the hidden aspects of ourselves and our relationships.... our shadow.

On this night, I will be burning mugwort and sandalwood and honouring Cerridwen in all her dark transformational glory.... burning away the old to allow for regeneration and the new, to re-ignite the quest for meaning and awaken once more to my true self, which too often gets lost in the day-to-day running of 'life' and 'things'...

New Moon in Taurus and the Depths of the Heart

The recent New Moon in Taurus had me contemplating new beginnings, and specifically new beginnings in the area of Love.

The last half year has seen me travelling down a rocky road of love...experiencing the full breadth of emotion in regards to matters of the heart. I realise now, I never really knew the full depth of my heart and soul. I still don't, as it is an ongoing, never-ending journey of self discovery, but I do feel I am further down the path...

So, this New Moon in Taurus allowed me to reflect on these difficult times, and prepare for new beginnings in love. I made a little "love altar" and set myself some "Venusian" intentions; Venus being the ruler of Taurus. Venus representing love, beauty, attraction, sensuality, art...

I am hoping for some clarity and insight into my heart and it's desires...how to understand the complexities of one's heart?

"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Who do we allow into our secret garden? Who can penetrate those walls? And what does that garden contain?