So, last week the Gemini horoscope (I’m on the cusp) offered this:

“The more you do what you want,” says Santa Fe artist Erika Wanenmacher, “the more magic happens.”

Erika makes really cool, diverse, unique compositions from objects she finds while walking around and, more and more, that’s a favorite form of art for me. I spent quite a bit of time on her site, thoroughly enjoying her descriptions of how creative material comes to us. The trick is we have to be paying attention and we have to acknowledge its potential. As happens frequently, Free Will Astrology brought me to a new source of inspiration (her creative process, and the results.) And, interestingly, more talk of magic was there. This is from the Ditch Witch section:

“Magic can be defined as the art of changing consciousness at will. Will is the deliberate, organized direction of intent toward a goal. Will works in partnership with imagination. So, magic and spells work when clear intent is focused by will and imagination.”

I think that’s the best definition of magic I’ve ever heard and am going to begin thinking of my focused intent as full of magic potential!

And, this is apparently an ongoing theme. Excerpt from Taurus this week:

You Tauruses are in a phase when the hidden workings of things will be shown to you — the mysterious magic that’s always bubbling below the surface but that is usually not visible.

More revelations are coming my way, apparently, so I’d better pay attention!

And from Gemini this week:

The week ahead will be a ripe time to pull off magic reversals… I’m confident, Gemini, that you’ll be able to discover treasure hidden in the trash…

Treasure from Trash – we were just talking about that!

Hmmm…as my good friend K replied:

In hocus pocus circles, we say that something coming into your consciousness three times is a direct message…i do believe that makes three times in just today that magick has made itself known to you…listening…..?

What’s the theme for you right now? Are you listening? Are you looking?

When the time comes for the embryo to

receive the spirit of life,

At that time the sun begins to help.

This embryo is brought into movement, for

the sun quickens it with spirit.

From the other stars this embryo received

only an impression, until the sun shone

upon it.

How did it become connected with the

shining sun in the womb?

By ways hidden from our senses:

the way whereby gold is nourished,

the way a common stone becomes a garnet

and the ruby red,

the way fruit is ripened,

and the way courage comes to one distraught

with fear.

I read this in The Infertility Cure by Randine Lewis.  She offers this as a poetic example of “…the sense of the whole, of the need for us to be in tune with our true nature to bring forth life.”   She describes the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) approach (which I am following through acupuncture treatments, herbs, and diet and lifestyle choices) as “…declaring our desire to be in alignment with nature…putting our trust in our body’s innate wholeness and seeking ways to help the body remember what it was meant to do…”

Rumi and Lewis are talking not just about life coming to the embryo, but the phenomenon of higher powers enlivening the creatures and other elements of our world, in an infinite array of shape, texture, color, personality, and potential.   There is so much mystery in the universe.  Children live and breathe with desire for discovering clues.  They are enchanted by the surprise and magic of it all.  What is it about growing up which hides our love of magical mystery?

I vow to continue unraveling the ropes which have tied up my enchantment.  I vow to help others see their knots and learn ways to untie them.  And I vow to give my children the freedom to discover clues and ponder mysteries, and to help them cultivate the power to tame the ropes that would bind, to use them for practical purposes, to jump with them, to turn them into harmless dancing snakes.