tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88359923533995539122026-10-26T02:30:00.121-07:00NewsworthyMetaphysical Musing
Be wise,Be Free,Be Spiritual
A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-28658078177604529172026-10-26T02:30:00.000-07:002026-10-26T02:30:00.117-07:00THE COUNT-UNTIL-DAWN HOOK ---Day 26 🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 26Today's story comes from Trinidad and Tobago—and travels the whole Caribbean.THE COUNT-UNTIL-DAWN HOOKWelcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from the island of Trinidad—though by the end you will see it belongs to half the Caribbean.You met her on Day 7: the Soucouyant, the old woman who slips out of her skin A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-736765502218654182026-10-25T02:30:00.000-07:002026-10-25T02:30:00.121-07:00Gasanee—The Calf Who Measured His Foot—Day 25🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 25Gasanee—The Calf Who Measured His FootWelcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from the island of Jamaica—and this one is not from a book. This one is my mother's.In the pasture there was a big bull, and every creature in that district knew his name without ever hearing it spoken. He was the master of the field and the A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-48373311742156148932026-10-24T02:30:00.000-07:002026-10-24T02:30:00.117-07:00Baron Samedi at the Cemetery Gate ---Day 24🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 24Today's story comes from Haiti.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from the island of Haiti.Baron Samedi at the Cemetery GateAs the moon rose over the iron gates of the cemetery, a warm wind carried the scent of tobacco, rum, and rain-soaked earth. The living hurried past the graveyard walls, but the ancestors knew A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-61494399129136150772026-10-23T15:25:33.362-07:002026-10-23T15:25:33.363-07:00Mercury Retrograde in ScorpioMercury Retrograde in Scorpio — October 24 to November 13The backup you keep meaning to make? Mercury is about to give you a reason. It turns retrograde tomorrow morning, Saturday October 24, in Scorpio, and stays that way until November 13.Scorpio does not do small talk, and neither does this retrograde. It is the sign of shared money, old debts, private truths, and the conversations that happenA New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-72317750837426106292026-10-23T02:30:00.000-07:002026-10-23T02:30:00.111-07:00The Lagahoo of Trinidad and the Loup Garou of the French islands—Day 23🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 23Today's story comes from Trinidad and Tobago—and from the French Caribbean.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from Trinidad and Tobago and from her cousins in the French Caribbean.Tonight we meet two relations—because that is what they are. The Lagahoo of Trinidad and the Loup Garou of the French islands carry the A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-27078717516351842902026-10-22T02:30:00.000-07:002026-10-22T02:30:00.118-07:00THE HEARTMAN WARNING -- Day 22 🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 22Today's story comes from Barbados.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from the island of Barbados.THE HEARTMANAsk an older Bajan about the Heartman, and watch their face change. Not the duppy. Not the steel donkey we walked with last night. A man.He was tall, they say, and dressed all in black — long coat, A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-79532678365190859492026-10-21T02:30:00.000-07:002026-10-21T02:30:00.115-07:00The Steel Donkey -- Day 21 🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 21Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore.Today our story comes from the island of Barbados.What walks the night roads of Barbados?On a Bajan night road, you hear it before you see it.First, the chain — clank, and drag, clank, and drag —coming out of the cane fields where no cart should be atthat hour. Then two eyes open in the dark, A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-22931307680073069362026-10-20T07:29:00.436-07:002026-10-20T08:24:17.189-07:00Why Puss and Dog Don't Get Along — Day 20 🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 20Today’s story comes from Jamaica.
Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from the island of Jamaica.
Today we talk about Anancyism — the way of Anansi, the spider trickster our people carried across the ocean from West Africa. Anancyism is the philosophy inside the stories: the small and the weak survive by A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-4368434029912221732026-10-18T14:45:55.227-07:002026-10-20T08:58:29.384-07:00The Lusca — Day 18🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 18
Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore.
Today our story comes from the Bahamas.
What waits in a blue hole?
The people of Andros say the blue holes breathe.
Not with air… but with something older.
At dusk, when the mangroves turn black and the tide pulls
Like a living hand, the water in the hole begins to rise.
and fall—slow, steady, A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-58513218221951545632026-10-17T16:48:21.935-07:002026-10-20T09:20:21.213-07:00Rose Hall --Day 17🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 17Today's story comes from Jamaica.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from the island of Jamaica.The moon hangs low over Rose Hall, washing the great house in silver — a beauty that never hides its scars. Locals say the night here has a pulse, a slow throb of old magic and older memories. And on certain nights, A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-20286277827634104072026-10-17T07:55:39.184-07:002026-10-20T10:04:33.993-07:00The Three-Footed Horse — Day 16 🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 16Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore.Today our story comes from the island of Jamaica.Three hooves on the road.The moon was high and white over Cane River district, brightenough to carve shadows sharp along the marl road. The bushwhispered, but the night itself felt tight, like it washolding a secret.Jonah, a young cane-cutter, A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-18885757745855381842026-10-15T05:55:18.504-07:002026-10-20T08:53:00.995-07:00The Obeah Worker — Day 15🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 15Today's story comes from Jamaica.The Obeah Worker—she never called herself that.In the cool hour before sunrise, when the roosters are only thinking about crowing, you could hear Ma Cora's footsteps on the packed dirt road. Not hurried. Not creeping. Just steady—the walk of someone who has carried other people's burdens for a lifetime and knows exactly howA New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-17477458720872492442026-10-14T06:00:00.000-07:002026-10-14T06:00:00.118-07:00The Baccoo—Day 14Today's story comes from Guyana.Every gift has a price.In Guyana, they say sudden wealth always has a story behind it—and sometimes the story is small enough to fit in a bottle.The Baccoo is a tiny spirit, half-human, no taller than a child—bald head, long arms, eyes that glow like wet coals. Some say he lives in a glass bottle on a windowsill; some say a box in a dark corner. A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-64975299563471048992026-10-13T06:00:00.000-07:002026-10-13T06:00:00.117-07:00Mami Wata—Day 13Today's story comes from the waters between Africa and the Caribbean.Beauty, wealth, and danger swim together.She is the most beautiful woman you will ever see—long flowing hair, skin like river light, a mirror in one hand and a comb in the other. They call her Mami Wata, Mother of the Water, and she moves across the Black Atlantic the way weather moves: from the rivers of West A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-69315009119044377662026-10-12T06:00:00.000-07:002026-10-12T06:00:00.185-07:00 Mama Dlo— Day 12Today's story comes from Trinidad.The river remembers what you took.In Trinidad, the old people say every river has a guardian — and her name is Mama Dlo. Mama D'Leau — *maman de l'eau*, mother of the water. Some call her Mama Glo. She is beautiful above the waist, with long dark hair she combs at the riverbank — and below the waist, she is serpent, powerful and coiling, at A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-64679635537625845742026-10-11T06:00:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:10:02.641-07:00"River Mumma’s Golden Comb" Day 10 🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 11Today's story comes from Jamaica.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—today, the tale of River Mumma and her golden comb.The old people say that if you walk by the Rio Cobre at dawn, when the mist still curls like breath over the water, you might hear a soft, rhythmic sound—like hair being gently combed. That is when you know she A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-76465782237707017112026-10-10T06:00:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:09:32.855-07:00"The Mocko Jumbie" Day 10🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 10Today's story comes from the Virgin Islands.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—today, the tale of the spirit who stands above fear.Across the Caribbean, the night is never truly empty. Every island carries its own stories of wandering spirits—jumbies, duppies, soucouyants, lagahoos, and la diablesse—shadows that slip between worlds when A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-16999788859149259802026-10-09T06:00:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:05:56.786-07:00"Jumbie Night." Day 9🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 9Today's story comes from across the Caribbean.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—today, the tale of the night the jumbies come down.Night falls differently in the Caribbean. It doesn't simply get dark—it settles, like a curtain pulled by unseen hands. On certain nights, the elders say the air feels heavier. The dogs bark at nothing. The A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-72344127313291174632026-10-08T06:46:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:05:25.974-07:00"Douens leave the wrong footprints" — Day 8🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 8Today's story comes from Trinidad and Tobago.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—today, the tale of the children who walk backwards.In Trinidad, the elders say the forest keeps its own secrets. Not every rustle is an animal. Not every laugh belongs to a child. And not every footprint leads where you think it does.Deep in the bush, where A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-37461957537270538722026-10-07T11:42:59.693-07:002026-10-11T11:04:57.627-07:00 "Papa Bois — Guardian of the Forest" Day 7 🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 7Today's story comes from Trinidad and Tobago and St. Lucia.Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—today, the tale of the old man who was never young.If you walk the forest trails of Trinidad and Tobago or St. Lucia long enough, you will hear of an old man who was never young. The hunters call him Papa Bois. The elders call him Maître A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-83477989359932905572026-10-06T09:11:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:04:16.284-07:00"The Lagahoo: A Night‑Road Story" Day 6Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from the island of Trinidad.Tonight, we walk the old night roads—and mind the chains.WHERE THIS STORY COMES FROMTrinidad—born on the plantations, where the French settlers' loup-garou tales met the shapeshifter spirits the enslaved Africans carried across the ocean. Two old worlds landed on one island, and out of that A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-68657518092560782222026-10-05T13:18:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:03:40.134-07:00"Jack Mandora, Keeper of the Story Door" Day 5 🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 5Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from Jamaica—and it is about the one whose name you have heard at the end of every tale.WHERE THIS STORY COMES FROMEvery Anansi story in Jamaica ends the same way: "Jack Mandora, mi nuh chuuz none." Generations of children have said those words—but few stop to ask who Jack A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-79146875982062776682026-10-04T12:10:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:02:52.800-07:00"Guabancex, Lady of Winds" Day 4🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore—Day 4Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from the Taíno people of these islands—the tale of the lady whose name lives inside the word "hurricane."WHERE THIS STORY COMES FROMLong before any flag was planted on these islands, the Taíno people fished these waters and farmed these valleys, and they understood the natural A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-88651464410044964832026-10-03T10:01:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:02:11.164-07:00Br'er Anansi & the Loophole🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 3Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from Jamaica.The dry season had the village holding its breath. The headman called everyone to the square and laid down the law: "No one eats before I eat. The food stays covered till I lift the first spoon. That way, no belly goes before another."Anansi bowed low. "A fair rule, A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835992353399553912.post-6757256934528728542026-10-02T09:58:00.000-07:002026-10-11T11:00:58.237-07:00WHY ANANSI HAS THIN LEGS🎃 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore — Day 2Welcome, my dears, to our 31 Days of Caribbean Folklore. Today our story comes from Jamaica—the tale of how the spider got his long, thin legs.WHERE THIS STORY COMES FROMAnansi is older than the Caribbean itself. He comes from the Akan people of Ghana, where the elders gathered the children and called these tellings "Anansesem"—spider stories. He crossed A New Age Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06916469539490968676noreply@blogger.com0