In Druidry, as in many other religious traditions, we pay attention when seemingly significant coincidences occur. When we notice strange patterns and echoes where we expected only random noise. Meaningful happenstance. When we were thinking about this year’s Solstice message, we thought about gods of healing. Apollo, for example. For the Greeks, he was the…
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Dealing With Difficult Times and Transits
Occasionally we stop and take stock of ourselves. Is our health ok? How about our family, and the other important relationships in our lives? Our education? Our career? And usually we find ourselves wanting in one way or another. We could be a little healthier, our family could be a little more tightly bonded, and…
Steve Pavlina Book Review III: the Tarot for Smart People
In the previous two posts in this series, I reviewed Steve Pavlina‘s new book Personal Development for Smart People, and suggested a way in which his seven principles (Truth, Love, Power, Courage, Authority, Oneness, and Intelligence) could be mapped to the seven visible planets in astrology (the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Venus, and…
Steve Pavlina’s Seven Principles for Smart People: Astrology and Personal Development
Steve Pavlina, the blogosphere’s foremost authority on personal development, has written a fantastic book on astrology and the Tarot. The odd thing is that he doesn’t know it. In fact, as far as I know, Steve is completely ignorant of astrology and the Tarot. He is something of a mystic — by his own account,…
The Tolkien Tarot Spread III: Fiction and Divination
What does fiction have to do with divination? The common thread is the story structure, the plot. A work of fiction is an illustration of prototypical event structures, plotlines that are moving or meaningful. A divination system also provides plotlines, as well as general elements to flesh out the events of the story. A divination…