Lelia
Soul Vows, Astrology and Bette Midler
Soul Vows is my favorite of Janet Conner’s books. I have gone through it twice and have twice crafted my own set of vows. I think that’s...
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Lelia
- Sep 20, 2021
- 6 min
Elizabeth Lesser, Reading and Great Books
Elizabeth Lesser makes me hopping mad in Cassandra Speaks. As a Literature major with a Women's Studies concentration, I expected to love...
Lelia
- Sep 16, 2021
- 4 min
Astrology, the 12th House and Brené Brown
Brené Brown’s natal chart (available at Astro Databank) provides a deeper understanding of the 12th house - that hidden house where...
Lelia
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
Feeling Adrift in an Empty Nest
My nest is empty and I’m grasping like a drowning person at anything that will tether me to a sense of stability and meaningful purpose....
Lelia
- Sep 14, 2021
- 3 min
Arbitray Stupid Goal and Attracting Perfect Customers
Artbitrary Stupid Goal is excellent. I bought it having seen that it's one of Austin Kleon's book club picks and I devoured it, both...
Lelia
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
Self-Reclamation: Sy Montgomery, Danielle Henderson and Edith Wharton
My reading is taking on an unintentional theme. Several of the books I’ve recently picked up are by women or about women who’ve had to...
Lelia
- Sep 7, 2021
- 3 min
Wandering with Jean Shinoda Bolen, Charlie Warzel and Edith Wharton
As I read through Crones Don’t Whine by Jean Shinoda Bolen, I found myself dismissing it as fluff. It seemed to be just a collection of...
Lelia
- Aug 26, 2021
- 4 min
MFK Fisher, Aging and Poetry
Last House by MFK Fisher is good and sad. In many of the later essays, she’s angry at the aging process which for her was exacerbated by...
Lelia
- Aug 22, 2021
- 4 min
Books, Empty Nest and Gemini Rising
“They are busy and thinking of ways to be busier because such a space of nothing pressing to do would knock them down. No fields of...
Lelia
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
Keri Smith, Play and Antidotes to the Wasteland
I’ve been thinking about Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal as a way to pay attention and engage with my imaginarium but it occurred to me...
Lelia
- Aug 16, 2021
- 4 min
Diane Keaton, Ruth Reichl, Mothers, Self-Exploration and Story
I just finished Then Again by Diane Keaton and loved it. One of my favorite parts is Keaton’s assessment of some of the documentary films...
Lelia
- Aug 12, 2021
- 2 min
Dominique Christina, the 4th House and Toni Morrison
I loved Dominique Christina’s This is Woman’s Work. It’s not a scholarly work on archetypes, it’s her lived experience of these...
Lelia
- Aug 11, 2021
- 3 min
Creativity, Motherhood and Self-Remembering
I'm inspired by the boundaries women set to protect their creativity and how often women persevere in being creative even if they only...
Lelia
- Aug 9, 2021
- 2 min
The Empress Tarot Card, Roses and Life Force Energy
I pulled the Empress card in tarot today and thought of the Dylan Thomas line “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower...
Lelia
- Aug 7, 2021
- 4 min
Mystics, Creativity and the Spiritual Path
I’ve been trying to read Carol Lee Flinders’ book Enduring Grace and am having to confront my repugnance for asceticism. The first female...
Lelia
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
Scrapjournaling and Soul Exploration
Keri Smith has a great exercise in Living Out Loud in which you get a box and start a clipping file of anything that interests you. After...
Lelia
- Aug 4, 2021
- 4 min
Caretaking, Meaningful Service and Skateistan
Mark Nepo writes in The One Life We’re Given of finding grace and wonder in the act of spoon feeding his invalid father. It’s a...
Lelia
- Aug 3, 2021
- 2 min
Paul D and Dubh Ruis: The Healing Path of Scorpio's Compassionate Insight
In If Women Rose Rooted, Sharon Blackie recounts the myth of Mis, who goes wild with grief at her father’s death, becoming crazed and...
Lelia
- Jul 28, 2021
- 2 min
Food Writers, Detectives and Soul Guides
I think of MFK Fisher as a food writer, but last night as I cozied up to Last House and a piece of pie (MFK Fisher would probably not...
Lelia
- Jul 18, 2021
- 10 min
A Look at Katharine Hepburn's Natal Chart
Looking at Katharine Hepburn’s busy 7th house, we realize that she was not going to be allowed to skip the class on human relationships...
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