Click here to discover theSo I pray. It is my job. For real. Everything that we explore in the Yogini circles, everything you read here, everything, arises from prayer. But what about self empowerment? What about taking charge of our lives? What about looking for the answer from our own wisdom? What about all the ways women have given [Read More...]
A Filianic blogger writes:
I say “Nativity” and not “Post-Nativity” thoughts, because it is still Nativity. Please do not think that when the first day of Nativity has passed all that magic Nativity Snow is just plain ol’ snow snow. It isn’t. It may be…
It sounds great just to be present. Who wouldn’t choose that? When we look a little closer, we realize that in order to live it, we will have to get down in our bodies. And stay. It is not always pleasant to be in our bodies, but to be present, means to welcome life in [Read More...]
Nativity has not ended, but what has ended is Astraea, the Star-month. We are now in Herthe, the Hearthfire-month.
In Astraea, the Star-month we look upward and in Herthe, the Hearth-month we look inward. Nativity is the Northern Gate of the Cosmos thr…
We are taught to fear fanatics, as if our own cynicism were not as deadly, as if passion and determination and stubborn steadfastness, not to mention force at times, were not necessary to break through inertia and stagnation and achieve progress. As if…
Out by the sands, shore-swept wash, tonight I threw five pebbles one year ago I collected by the shore. I had asked then, what offering would Njord want? What would a coin really mean? It came to me : collect several stones and live with them for a whi…
13. And when the voice of the Janya ceased, a silence fell that was the first true silence since the beginning of the world, and the last that shall be until it end. 14. And the children of earth watched the sky as the first rays of dawn crept across…
Good Yule! Good Yule! I write to you beneath a blanket on the beach outside Ventura. The night is crisp, the stars are bright, the tide thrums on, its baritone thump along the shores holding, forgiving, strengthening. I roll about on the sand, ask Jord…
a follow-up to “Everything Does Not Happen For A Reason”Urd, the Well of Wyrd’s keeper, dreams, and her dream-weaves web upon the tapestry of life. It makes no sense to logic-eyes of wordlock, but in the end, her benevolence cups and holds events, even…
O say that Northern spirit still divine within our Western Walls resides! For there is hope within the embers not yet passed that we may light the hearths again! And that is food for toasts! Let lift the wine, in silver-rimmèd horn, to lips, and spi…
Candles burning, Tibetan incense whispers secrets in the early morning. I am re-emerging slowly up to the surface after almost 21 days of Sadhana, of Spiritual Cleanse. Daily I claim my seat among the outrageously devoted Yoginis. Prayers and howls are the soundtrack of my days, the inner channels humming with sparkly fresh winds, the [Read More...]
Excerpt from a recent blog post that may interest our readers, reprinted with permission:
We had a little catch-up meeting today so the pettes who missed Cinderella this Rhavedi could see the missed epis. And we saw my favorite scene when the Fairy Go…
As Nativity draws closer here are two things that may delight you!
Hail to the Princess A beautiful Nativity carol
The Dream Key A heartwarming feminine seasonal story.
May Dea bless you all!
This is more of a simple point in an area of interest of mine: the “paranormal”. Now, I don’t dally in it, myself (thats just dangerous!), but I do watch documentaries and read stories. I have just this minute been watching a documentary I have on a di…
I love spiritual practice. Yes I know, some cringe thinking about the dreaded D word (yes, discipline..) having had too many authority figures telling us what to do. But we can also view our commitment to practice as self love. It is a commitment to that which truly nourishes us. We feed the practice, and [Read More...]
Thank you for your excellent explication of the concept of Anima Mundi. The threefold constitution of the cosmos and of the jiva as microcosm is of course a central teaching of the perennial philosophy.
Sri Lalita Herself is named Tripura Sundari, the…
You say who is at the door? I say your slave. You say what do you want? To see you and bow. How long will you wait? Until you call. How long will you cook? Until the resurrection. We talk to the door. I claim a great love and that I have given up [Read More...]
What do we mean by the Anima Mundi and what relation does it bear to the human psyche?
From a recent blog post:
We had a lovely Eve of Advent Service on Rayadi, and Honored Raya in her sermon explained something I have never understood. Why does Advent come so suddenly? Because it does, doesn’t it? Every year, even though some shops h…
Have you heard the saying “we are not bodies having a spiritual experience, we are spirits having a bodily experience ”? In the Shakti tradition we take it one step further, here we embrace the body as spirit, and spirit as body. Every living being perceives subject and object, but the Shakta resides in their [Read More...]
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