Simone Butler's Blog, page 6
October 24, 2023
Taurus Full Moon: Out of the Shadows
A few years back, I built an altar for Dia de Los Muertos to honor my parents. We have no Aztec or Spanish blood in our lineage, but I’ve always loved the tradition.…
October 8, 2023
Libra New Moon: Trust Your Instincts
An inspirational tale for the “ring of fire” solar eclipse! Composite image by April Elliott Kent.
One cold day in 1936 a stray tabby cat crept inside St. Augustine’s Cathedral in London, seeking food and warmth.…
September 25, 2023
Aries Full Moon: Light My Fire
On a sweltering May afternoon in 2015, D’Arcy Downs-Vollbracht heard an unearthly scream. She ran out of her Bullhead City, AZ ranch house and saw three neighboring dogs viciously attacking her pet goats.…
September 7, 2023
Virgo New Moon: Claim Your Turf
When staff at the Meadow Brook Medical Care Facility in Bellaire, MI arrived one recent July morning, they were astonished to find a dog curled up on the couch in the waiting room.…
August 23, 2023
Pisces Full Moon: Capture Your Dream
Esma Gljiva with her “Bosnian Barbie Dolls.”
About a month ago, during her summer vacation, eleven-year-old Esma Gljiva from Sarajevo, Bosnia, started creating folklore-style Barbies with Balkan costumes like headdresses and decorative aprons.…
August 11, 2023
Leo New Moon: Reclaiming Pleasure
Oakland-based Yeye Luisah Teish is a Yoruba priestess and a daughter of Oshun, the African Venus. When I first met Teish in the mid-80s at the Council of Feminine Fire in Ojai, California, she blew me away.…
July 27, 2023
Aquarius Full Moon: Who are Your People?
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”…
July 11, 2023
Cancer New Moon: Ancestral Inspiration
Artwork by Gayle Porter Hoskins
Once upon a time in the 1830s, a young Englishman named Joseph and a young French woman named Elizabeth fell madly in love. But Elizabeth’s wealthy father, who was Joseph’s employer, refused to let them marry – and disowned his daughter when she eloped.…
June 28, 2023
Capricorn Full Moon: Proactive Grace
In her essential new book, Talking on Eggshells: Soft Skills for Hard Conversations, Sam Horn shares a story about a man whose mother had been in a rest home for three years.…
June 13, 2023
Gemini New Moon: Double Your Pleasure
Still besties – and twin souls!
Miami-based four-year-olds Zuri Copeland and Jia Sarnicola hit it off instantly when they met at school, and have been best friends ever since. The girls, who just turned ten, actually believe themselves to be twins – and they became instant celebrities when their story hit the media in 2017.…
