Blue Eagle

Blue Self-Existing Eagle 10.15.19 I do not know other than within me something stirs, A mixing of grandmothers and mothers Around me, a shield of women (and men as well) Holding spoons going round and round Chanting some young some ancient song, As old as mountains and dusty golden sand Glinting leaves where treefolk in...

Becoming

Blue Solar Eagle 8.16.19 Run children, run, From the shackles of tradition From the romance that hangs heavy as a weeping bride’s veil Beaded with diamonds and pearls A noose upon her head, a chain to pull her by her nose, Placed there by mothers and grandmothers All bound to a tradition that they know...

Claiming Wheel

White Galactic Wizard 8-15-19 Full Aquarian Moon Leonid Sun In the name of all that is joyous to the heart, Gladdening to the eye, and is kindling to the belly, In the name of all that stokes courage, Fuels passion, and promotes dreaming, Even though we may get lost By the stars in the cosmos...

Summer Solstice Seedings

Blue Overtone Storm GAP Circle at the pond, sunlight and song Fish swim golden, rabbits hop along Two path spiral, rose petal mead Salt and sugar, flower and seed Celebrating one another on this bright sweet day Sharing warmth while awake dreaming a whole new way.

Grieving Woman

Red Crystal Earth GAP 1.10.19 On a gray boulder she sits. Round as the stones themselves, face weathered with crevices, in her creased robes of gray she blends in with the mound of boulders. “I am Grieving Woman,” she says, “I live in the gray zone, I blend in with shadows, where I carry your...

Old Face

12.27.16 Shedding Red Serpent Wavespell Once up on a mountain, in a place where fairies blew mist and fog over tree tops on balmy winter days when they wanted to come out unseen to dance and play, there lived Old Face. She looked out from a slope covered in honeysuckle and wild rose at the...

Fourth and Fifth Nights

12.17.18 Spirited Red Skywalker Entering White Castle on the Ninth Night of Solstice . . . . the Vulture visits from the remains of my ancestors to sing me their song, Great Bear, Ursa: vanguard. 12.18.18 White Lunar Wizard What is it that happens when the tower is silent, empty of stories and tales you...

Fifth Night: Fleshing Bones

White Spectral Dog GAP 12.14.18 This is what I do when the winter spirit curls itself around Snow soaked boots, seeps under wet socks Settles into toes and climbs to give A frigid embrace, chilling me to the bone I hop aboard a boat hewn of frosty crystals with branches of pine and birch for...