Season of the Ancestors
The ancestors are not dead, they are still alive. They are in the stones, the trees, the newborn and the rain. Malidoma Some Festival of Samhain As we move into Autumn and the nights close […]
October 2013
November Chat Page 2013
Star Letter: I Have Been Heard I am a man in my late 50’s and work in the corporate world. With my wife, I’ve been a member of Cygnus for many years and love the […]
Nature Blessings: November Issue of Cygnus Review out Now!
Owls are such proud, archaic ambassadors of the enigmatic dark energies of nature. To me their beautifully haunting call is an invitation to step out of the neon glow of our modern lives and into […]
The Seven Initiations
You have incarnated not just to bring forward a new Golden Age but also to birth a new civilization. Much is expected of you and much will be given to you as your evolution is […]
We Are Nature
Nature and people are simply part of one another. If we bring our awareness to what is around us and within us, this becomes obvious. We cannot be considered separate. The natural world is at […]
The One Mind is not an Infinite Blob
If all individual minds are part of a greater mind, what keeps all mental activity from melding into some featureless muddle in the One Mind? What accounts for the specificity and individuality we see in […]
From Crisis to Miracle
Last Christmas I received a long board as a gift from my parents. If you don’t know what that is, it’s an extra-long skateboard that’s used for picking up considerable speed, especially on downhill runs. […]
We are People of the Earth
The fields have gone under the plough. The swifts and the swallows have flown. The mist and the rain are descending again And the fall into winter’s begun. This is an autumn round I wrote […]
Wooding and the Rhythms of the Seasons
My birth name wasn’t Maddy Harland, it was Madeleine Wood, and wood has always played an important part in my life. A deepening love of nature Early memories are of camping with my parents in […]
Nature’s Blessings
If there is one book I wish I had written myself, because it expresses so exactly where I believe our souls are taking us at the moment, it is Claire Thompson’s Mindfulness and the Natural […]