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Happy New Year! Some of you celebrate the New Year on Jan. 1 and some of you don’t but even if it’s not the beginning of your seasonal year, it’s still a new digit in our year. 2008 is now 2009. Can you believe it? I remember when we brought in the year 2000. I was thinking about what life would be like in 2010. In 2000 I was 17 so I had no idea what was ahead of me. So am I happy with where I am? Yes. Things could always be better but I have a husband who loves me, and two beautiful children. I’m happy. So how…

The first thing you need to do once you begin your journey with the Fool is be certain that you want to. There is a great deal of responsibility that comes with the path of the reader regardless of the tool you use for it. Whether you are reading for yourself or others, you must be flexible and willing to listen to your intuition. There must be an understanding that the meaning of the cards can change as you feel it. Listening to your inner voice is the first step in learning to be an effective reader. Secondly, you must realize that as you read for others, you are unintentionally…

Death (13) “Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” ~Ayn Rand Image Description: The Rider-Waite deck depicts an apocalyptic skeleton wearing armor on horseback and carrying a banner emblazoned with a symbolic flower. Four figures appear before him: a Bishop, child, woman, and a fallen King.  In the distance, the sun can be seen setting between two pillars on a hill. Embedded in the side of the hill is the entrance to a dark and mysterious cave. In the background, a river lazily flows nearby. Symbols: Banner Showing a Flower with Five Petals: Life Force Skeleton Riding A Horse: The Apocalyptic version of Death Sunset: The end of…

Yule, and other Solstice celebrations of light, is over, and winter is setting in. Though we celebrated the rebirth of the Sun King, and the turning toward the light in December, the reality is that spring can seem a long way off in the gloomy days of January! Nights are still dark and long. Branches are black against a frozen sky. Snowflakes swirl on bitter winds, and snow crunches crisply beneath winter boots. Noses, fingers and toes are red with cold. There is beauty in this, but hardship too. For those of us who don’t enjoy it, January is strong meat! It takes a sturdy character to love winter’s rigorous…

Kiva’s cd “Out of the Corner of the Eye” is their ninth recording since the bands birth in 1990.  The cd is a collaboration of songs based on fey folk and the world they dwell in.    The band, with talented guest and a specialized set of instruments (cello, guitar, flutes, didgeridoo, violin, bass, and mandolin) recreated a world many of us wondered about and wish we were actually living in.  With each song and story being told you can feel yourself being swept into the story as if Alice in Wonderland. While listening to the music and lyrics I am easily reminded of being back in the Renaissance perhaps of…

He sat across the narrow room from them as they ate their breakfast that morning.  An attractive woman with two children: a boy of around eight years and his younger sister, a wide-eyed and happy five- or six-year-old.  The mother was busy with her children but seemingly without the usual undertone of anxiety that he saw in so many young families these days.  The children also did not display the more common agitated behavior of youngsters who felt they had to compete for attention.  They showed all the enthusiasm and fearless engagement with life that he loved so much about children their ages.  He felt especially enchanted by the girl,…

Ingrid’s Yule Snow More of Monique’s artwork can be viewed at: http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=20904

Start the new year right with a new crossword puzzle (click here)!  This month’s theme is the goddesses of the world – how many do you know?

We have an exceptional issue for you this month. As a special Yule gift to you all, our special features this month include interviews with : Raymond Buckland Gail Woods Diana L. Paxson We know you will enjoy our gift to you and we hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday!!

As I sit here in the land of sand that sees no festivity yet boasts to be the origin of both Pagan and Christian histories of which the latter it is the birth place of Christ. I look around at the faces of the Soldiers here with me sitting in the same predicament so far from home and in a war zone. I plan my Yule festivities as I would whether I was home or here as you can never let depression set in or it would ruin you. But really, how can one be depressed if they look inward and see the same sun, the shortest day of the…