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Mind your Altar

tasara — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 17:05:45 +0000

If you keep an altar, formal or informal, it is most important right now, especially in the pandemic when many of us are cooped up inside that you tend to it. Left unattended, an altar can become a drag on your energy rather than a place to go for refreshment and clearing. Altars are magnifiers … Continue reading Mind your Altar →

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Sacred Found in Holiday Blues

tasara — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 23:35:24 +0000

If you are having a hard time today, whether you are feeling alone or actually alone, I extend my circle to yours, if you allow it. I do this because I have been where you are, many a year, hearing the inner screaming while the forces try to pull me down into a whirlpool of … Continue reading Sacred Found in Holiday Blues →

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Yule in the Pandemic

tasara — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:55:10 +0000

Darkness deep.Ordered nights across a gaping void. Some of us are safe.Some think we are more than can be true.Some have tumbled into the black, beyond. Each night shifts the dark,and the Great Mother, she speaks out loud. I W A N T T O K N O W Y O U . The you … Continue reading Yule in the Pandemic →

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You’ve Come So Far

tasara — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:57:18 +0000

And She said, “There will be times in your healing process when you will be reminded that you don’t need to fight anymore. You don’t need to endlessly scan the land, looking for trouble, as you once had to. Each gate you go through, there will be a clear sign of certain dangers falling away. … Continue reading You’ve Come So Far →

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Pandemic Mabon

tasara — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:20:40 +0000

We have entered the land of the Sheand the sun, she has slipped past and is making her way into the darkness.She is taking with herour dreamsour deadour ideas of who we think we areand what we think would have happened. Now in the second harvest, we see the truthwhat we have gainedwhat we have … Continue reading Pandemic Mabon →

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She Is Here – II

tasara — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 01:24:40 +0000

It’s not over, she says. You thought you’d had enough,that you’d learned to listen. You held fastand now it should be over. You can do more, she whispers. Thank you for listeningto my beautiful birdsto the beating of your own heart. Now what? The borders are closed.The sickness is rising.The cabin fever.The incessant fever. The … Continue reading She Is Here – II →

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Rubber Bullet Talisman

tasara — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:13:12 +0000

Send me your rubber bullets and I will build an altar for us. It will contain the power that struck the hammer,sending them, cutting through the air. It will be packed with the force of cold, negligent denialof all wrongs done from slavery until now. It will be charged with the emotions of our people … Continue reading Rubber Bullet Talisman →

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Mother Earth

tasara — Mon, 18 May 2020 00:45:33 +0000

Tasara Jen Stone reads about Mother Earth from her book The Ancient Bones of Ceremony, which can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Bones-Ceremony-Remembering-Heartfelt/dp/1733137807

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She Is Here – I

tasara — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:20:34 +0000

She whispers, Do you notice more, now? Does the kitchen table have more substance? Do your books send magic off the shelves, into the living room air?Are your interests dwindling to just a few, laden with suggestion? Sense the fresh in the quiet, she tells us. It could be ancient or new. What do you truly need … Continue reading She Is Here – I →

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Sweet rain during the pandemic

tasara — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 23:38:20 +0000

Shh, shh, shh, shhhh.. she saysGo deeper.But, bu, bu, co, corona-She says go deeper, now.Breathe. Earthen cool rainQuite flameWhat you left on the loomFrom the past, comes the painGo deeper. Who am I?, again.What have I done?Where was I headedbefore welet the rest of nature out of quarantine? Making doDiscoveries anewCan you hear the calling?Why … Continue reading Sweet rain during the pandemic →

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