Week of Solidarity with Peoples Struggling against Racism and Discrimination and International Day for the Elimination for Racial Discrimination

“A popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy or perhaps both." --James Madison, fourth President of the United States, father of the Constitution and architect of the Bill of Rights

Pi is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, or more simply, the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter.

“Descendant of the griffin,” the vulture is symbolic of “heaven and earth, spirit and matter,” and is our “link to the guardian of the mysteries of life and death, and the road of salvation.” Pueblo peoples believed that turkey vulture medicine helped to “restore harmony that had been broken,” and that their feathers could be “used for grounding after shapeshifting ceremonies.

Nome, Alaska is a far away place, especially by dog sled.

Animal companion to sorcerers, seers, mystics and medicine peoples, and familiar for witches, wizards and priestesses, the owl has been unerrant ally for those of us gifted in and of the psychospiritual arts. She is the “night eagle,” seeing what others cannot, and revealing truths heretofore unseen.

An upside down or “shadow” card often infers a time to look within more so than without, and to do the work of internal process versus any external application. It’s the more subtle realms as opposed to the obvious which takes preoccupation.

The last black water dragon year was 1952, which left us with the introduction of the hydrogen bomb, the B52 bomber and smog. The founder of craigslist, Craig Newmark, was born that year and is a water dragon himself.