Mabon
2007
Alice
laughed: "There's no use trying,"
she said; "one can't believe
impossible things."
"I
daresay you haven't had much
practice," said the Queen. "When I
was younger, I always did it for
half an hour a day. Why, sometimes
I've believed as many as six
impossible things before
breakfast."
-
Lewis Carroll, Alice in
Wonderland
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Samhain
2007
I
sometimes think that never blows so
red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar
bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden
wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once
lovely Head.
-
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
rendered into English verse by
Edward Fitzgerald
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Yule
2007
all
that dampness and recklessness
gladly and lightly,
and there it is again -
beauty the brave, the
exemplary,
blazing
open.
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky
life?
Do you adore the green grass, with
its terror beneath?
-
Mary Oliver,
"Peonies"
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Imbolc
2008
In
the depth of your hopes and desires
lies your silent knowledge of the
beyond;
And
like seeds dreaming beneath the snow
your heart dreams of
spring.
Trust
the dreams, for in them is hidden
the gate to eternity.
-
Kahlil Gibran, The
Prophet
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Ostara
2008
Light
is the left hand of darkness
And darkness the right hand of
light.
Two are one, life and death,
lying
Together like lovers in kemmer,
Like hands joined together,
Like the end and the way.
-
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand
of Darkness
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Beltane
2008
The
question of love is one that cannot
be evaded. Whether or not you claim
to be interested in it, from the
moment you are alive you are bound
to be concerned with love, because
love is not just something that
happens to you: It is a certain
special way of being alive. Love is,
in fact, an intensification of life,
a completeness, a fullness, a
wholeness of life.
-
Thomas Merton
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Litha
2008
Before
I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling
out,
And to whom I was like to give
offence.
Something there is that doesn't love
a wall,
That wants it down.
-
Robert Frost, "Mending
Wall"
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