Jodi Livon, author of The Happy Medium, joined Kare11 News at 4 yesterday to share some tips for spiritual spring cleaning. Some tips she provided for cleaning away negative thoughts as we clear away the dust and dirt of the winter months included: Put on comfy clothes. Put on soft comforting music. Open your windows. [...]
This month, we are taking a little break from our journey through the cards. You see, here in Minnesota, it is still cold (only 10 degrees the morning I wrote this) and snow still covers much of ground. So I’m devoting April to welcoming April and with it, warm weather, energy, and bursting forth with [...]
Run for cover! (Really, just kidding.) Mercury has turned retrograde today at 25 degrees Aries, and will remain retrograde until April 23, when it again turns direct. Since Mercury is so slow-moving, the effects of this retrograde period could potentially be felt for a few weeks afterward (until the end of April). I’ve stated many [...]
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Ember Grant, author of Magical Candle Crafting. As a Neo-Pagan, I’m often asked about gods and goddess. Do I worship a pantheon? If so, which one? This is a tricky question. Basically, I feel that the universe and our natural world represent the divine power, and this [...]
Just a quick post today, because I want people to spread the word about this. This weekend I had an amazing time at Paganicon getting together with like-minded people in a safe and educational environment. At times like these I really feel like being Pagan is no big deal; it’s just another spiritual path that [...]
I saw a blog by Jerry Coyne which referenced an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In particular there is a chart that shows a surprising percentage of adults who have false beliefs about science: 33% of adults don’t think the Earth goes around the Sun once per year. 49% think that “ordinary” tomatoes don’t have [...]
John Michael Greer, who is headlining the first-ever Paganicon conference (beginning tonight), has been interviewed by the MN Bureau of the Pagan Newswire Collective. Paganicon is a brand new spring weekend event just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. Based on the weekend conference model used by other Pagan events around the country, it will be a weekend [...]
The year was 1987. For over 15 years, an unusual astrological alignment had been predicted to begin on August 16–17: The Sun, Moon, Mars and Venus were in alignment, what astrologers call a conjunction, at the first degree of Virgo Mercury was at the fourth degree of Virgo, within the “orb of influence” of the [...]
This card has changed a lot throughout history. It originally meant a traitor; someone who had betrayed someone or something. Later, it meant sacrifice, and some still read it as that. But more commonly, now, people read it as being in a kind of comfortable limbo waiting for a revelation or realization of some sort. [...]
When I went to high school the only good musicians were in the school’s jazz band. I didn’t want to play jazz, I wanted to rock out! I ended up in a variety of bands playing all over. Here is an early picture of me playing on my highly customized Hammond B3 organ. The small [...]