Community Altar for March 2021

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This month’s Community Altar features Persephone, in honor of the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere. [Image description: An altar with several lit candles, a bunch of white flowers, and two images of the Goddess Persephone.] The image on the left is by Ellen Lorenzi-Prince, the Liberation card from her Dark Goddess Tarot. [Image […]

Community Altar for February 2021

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This month’s community altar features Kuan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, who is known as “she who hears the cries of the people”. She provides healing, hope, and comfort to all who are afflicted with pain, sorrow, and grief. Given that the COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing after more than a year, Kuan Yin’s blessings […]

Altars at the New Office

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I’m slowly sorting out the chaos from the office move (losing several days to excessive heat just after the move has not helped). The internet connection is working, the coffee maker is in place, and my desk is set up enough so I can actually do some work. I then set up the most important […]

An Altarpiece for Ran

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I found myself out shopping recently (not my favorite thing, but sometimes necessary), and found a new type of air-dry clay at the Japanese chain Daiso. Being unable to resist the possibility of a new medium in which to play, I acquired a box for testing. The texture is very different from other polymer clays—it’s […]

Community Altar for November 2018: Kuan Yin and Kali

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November has been a complicated month in global politics. Well, really, what month isn’t complicated? But with the elections in US and Brazil, and the ongoing Brexit negotiations, I have felt extra stress around the political events, both locally and internationally. While the US elections went better than many feared, and progress was made, we […]

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