Ten Good Things - February 2023
inspiring content from around the web
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Each month my last newsletter will be a collection of links to things that have come across my path during the month that I know will inspire you.
Ten Good Things is a way to share with you what I find interesting, thought-provoking, helpful, inspiring, and delightful.
These are the things I’d share with you if we met for tea in a quirky cafe with cozy chairs, delectable pastries, and charming decor.
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Watch sound create corresponding geometric patterns in a levitating drop of water. Beautiful and amazing.
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." ― Nikola Tesla
Seeing things like this bolsters my belief that we and the universe are part of a connected "field" or "web." It also continues to validate my love of sound as a healing modality.
Pamela Coleman Smith's Eyes Within
One-hour podcast on YouTube. Pamela Coleman Smith, aka Pixie, is the illustrator of the well-known Rider Waite Smith tarot deck, arguably the most famous tarot deck in the world.
Against All Odds: Harriet Powers, an American folk artist and quilt maker born into slavery on a plantation in rural Georgia in 1839. Read her story and enjoy viewing her amazing quilts.
I've come across a new and exciting folk saint, St Goedele (sometimes spelled St. Gudula), whose symbol is tremella deliquescens, a fungus that blooms in January. You know how I love magical correspondences. So here's an article examining the 12 medicinal mushrooms and their respective planets and signs. This link specifically explores the astrology of St. Goedele's tremella and its links to Capricorn, among other things.
The Goddess and the Bear Hybrid Imagery and Symbolism
A deep dive for those intrigued by the goddess and the bear.
In European folk memories, the bear is an ancestress, a divine birth-giving mother and protectress. The practice of a grandmother placing a newborn baby on a bearskin, described in the 3rd century AD by Porphyry, was continued in Slavic lands into the 20th century. The Bulgarians held ritual feasts for “Grandmother Bear” as did the Belorussians, who associated the bear with healing powers, fecundity and prosperity. Linguistic evidence connects the bear with the ability to give birth, as in the Old European root bher-, Germanic *beran ‘to bear children’, ‘to carry’, Germanic *barnam, ‘child’, and Old Norse burdh, ‘birth’.
In eastern Lithuania, a woman who has just given birth was traditionally called Meška ‘Bear’. When the new mother approached the sauna for a ritual bath some weeks following the birth, the women preparing the ritual would call out, “The Bear is coming, the Bear is coming,” suggesting a remnant of an archaic ritual formula.
Create gorgeous molded embellishments for crafting made from toilet paper! Who knew?
Are you looking for little earth mothers and moon mothers for your altar? I recommend Bell Pine Art Farm.
As we near the spring equinox, it's time to start drinking spring tonics to revive, strengthen and revitalize the body after winter. I love Organic Nettle SuperHerb® Tea with peppermint and vanilla, which I get from The Republic of Tea.
Beautiful Mother Mary guided meditations from Alana Fairchild. I love listening to them at night before sleeping while holding a rose quartz heart.
Tarot Tips - How to ask powerful questions
This PDF download has guidance for asking the right questions when working with any oracular system, tarot, oracle cards, runes, astrology, or artwork. When you seek answers from your inner knowing and intuitive function, asking the right questions elicits the most helpful answers.
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