Welcome to Summer! The time of the year when we feel at our peak of physical, emotional, and spiritual grandeur. Summer is when we are all rushing to do what we must to ready for the leaner times of the year, whether that be traditional farming or the vacation that recharges us for the longer hours of work in the fall and winter. The splendidly long days can’t help but motivate us to activities that we spend the rest of the seasons dreaming about.
Time for my second issue of Hammer & Stone! I hope you enjoy it.
Meditation can be a funny thing. Some say it has to be done under specific conditions, others say it has to be done with a specific unvarying ritual; my experience is that it can be done any place and by any means that works for you. Do not start by placing limits on the thing that is meant to take those limits away. Read the meditation below, then find your place and your method and relive your own version change it as your mind leads you and discover what is out there to discover. Please have a Blessed Lammas.
One of the first and most often things that I get asked is “How do I protect myself from X.” You all can fill in the X with what ever is your area of concern. So below are seven techniques from which anyone can benefit..
One of the important things to remember is that we humans live in a profoundly colorful world. Color is an emergent property of all aspects of nature.
Pick a tarot card deck for yourself. There are more and more decks available all the time, some with beautiful artwork. Some newer ones are based on literary works such as Lord of the Rings. Others draw on Native American or other cultural influences. There are also the older, better known decks like the Ryder [...]
The Tarot what ever the origins seem to have come into common awareness in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe. However, my purpose in writing this article is to look to how the Tarot is used now by Pagan culture and how it can be used as a tool to both understand ourselves and others. On the market today you will find many types of card decks that are meant for use in divination.
I have decided to open up once again a social network hosted by Ning.com. This part of the website is about your personal journey, what has been found, what has been understood and what still needs more exploration.
To Friends at Home To friends at home, the lone, the admired, the lost The gracious old, the lovely young, to May The fair, December the beloved, These from my blue horizon and green isles, These from this pinnacle of distances I, The unforgetful, dedicate. ~R.L.Stevenson Cosmic Mother Oh Goddess Mother You are the mystery [...]
When it comes to meditation there seems to be as many different styles as there are practitioners. That of course is an over statement and many of us use the same basic tools to reach a meditative state. However, today I ran across one that was new to me so I thought I would share [...]
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6 September 2010, 5:08 pm: I favorited a YouTube video -- Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles) http://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I?a
