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Date Posted: Thu, August 04 2022, 3:29:24
Author: Janet
Subject: Quote of the Day, Thursday, 08/04/2022. The Fiery Cross, Chapter 35, Hogmanay/ Copyright 2001, All rights reserved


I could feel the whole house in movement, throbbing around me, and light flowed under the door from the hall. Just here, though, it was quiet. In the silence I felt the weight of the little idol in my pocket and pressed it, hard and lumpy against my leg.

There is nothing special about January the first, save the meaning we give to it. The ancients celebrated the new year at Imbolc, at the beginning of February, when the winter slackens and the light begins to come back---or the date of the spring equinox, when the world lies in balance between the powers of dark and light. And yet, I stood there in the dark, listening to the sound of the cat chewing and slobbering in the cuupboard and felt the power of the earth shift and stir beneath my feet as the year---or something---prepared to change. There was noise and the sense of a crowd nearby, and yet I stood alone, while the feeling rose through me, hummed in my blood.

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[> I really like QOTD. It gives me time to savor a Diana moment. Her writing is so descriptive and I feel what she’s writing. I tend to kind of speed read along so it’s nice to slow down and think about what I’m reading. -- Kathy in PA, Thu, August 04 2022, 14:54:41


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