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All 13 full moons of 2023

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The Fool and The Hierophant

Where you're going, you don't need rules.

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Edward Gorey - Tarot

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ultraviolet + infrared images of Pluto, Venus, Mercury and Mars by hubble

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Illustration - Maenhir

Wiccan Calendar by Ste Pickford

Lammas/Lughnasadh - August 1st

Lughnasadh is celebrated roughly at the midpoint between the Summer Solstice and the Autumn Equinox.

Summer continues for now, but the days are steadily growing shorter and there is work to be done. Lughnasadh is the first of three harvest festivals, and the central crop in this case is grain. Traditionally the first sheaf of grain is cut, winnowed, ground, and baked into ceremonial bread – the delicious result of months of labor. In the process the seeds for next year’s grain are carefully saved, and the wheel keeps turning. Blessed Lammas!

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It is officially, the longest day of the year; the Summer Solstice (10:37 am ET)

For some, that's all it is. For others, it's a day to revel in friendship and family, to ceebrate the successes, and to prepare for the second half of the year by choosing to start new, beneficial patterns. Whatever this day means to you, I hope it brings you much light.

Happy Summer Solstice, Lovelies grian-stad an t-samhraidh

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Happy Wednesday, folx!

This week holds a great deal of transitional energy, but it’s about releasing what has worked for a long time but is no longer for your highest good.  Everyone has trouble releasing things that have represented peace, balance, function, security, etc. The longer it worked, the harder it is to believe, and feel comfortable that the unknown “new” will be better for us. Today, I offer Reiki to assist you in the process of releasing, and moving forward.  Enjoy your minute of Woo Gus an ath thuras (Until next time), Lovelies Namasté

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Archive: A Ring of Black Holes (NASA, Chandra, 02/09/11) by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

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I truly don't have any words about what's happening in Ohio right now. I want to post something like I usually do. Give vocabulary, etc, whatnot. It's important, it's so important. But I don't have words. What could I possibly say about the level of devastation that has happened, is happening, will happen in the future? This is worse than the BP spill. And I don't know how to respond to that with anything other than a shocked numbness.

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Three of Swords and Page of Swords

When you met the monstrous beast of legend, you saw that it had the rusting remains of several other swords still embedded in its sides.

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Happy Full Moon Self Care Sunday, folx! This week, the energy of the full moon in Leo (1:28 pm ET) is giving us a gentle push toward self care. 

Use that Leo energy to remember that you are enough. You, right now, as you are, are enough.  So, don’t participate in anything today, that doesn’t support that mantra, or that isn’t respecting that boundary. 

If that doesn’t feel sustainable, then consider it a day off from trying so hard for others, and do for you, in as many ways as you can. Go, Do, Be Gus an ath thuras (Until next time), Lovelies Namasté

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Women Watching the Stars 1936 Chou Ota

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embodying "the world" card in tarot because i refuse to repeat old cycles and instead accept how vibrant, creative, and free my existence is without the weight of my past dragging me down.