We sat in the circle and sang the song. A sweet opening to a day, a Tuesday, when our homeschool reading group meets.
Good morning dear earth
Good morning dear sky
Here are my friends and here am I.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote, “The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
I looked around at the friendly faces and felt waves of gratitude. We are one year and a half into homeschooling, and I find these little peak experiences to be more and more frequent. I have been so enchanted by the other homes where our group has gathered, each one offering its own atmosphere of warmth, creativity, and care.
In these unhurried moments I feel the full metaphoric strength of a circle, the bounds and bonds that we choose to embrace so that life can ramify inside and ignite an ongoing direction.
It was our turn to host for the first time. I could smell the pumpkin muffins warming in the oven.
Emerson said, “A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”
With Saturn now back in Pisces beside Neptune, it feels like a meaningful time to revisit our dreams and ideals, to bring structure and devotion to the things that once felt only imagined.
Psychologist William Damon writes that ideals act as inner beacons, luminous points that give purpose and coherence to our actions. When we hold them close, they orient us toward meaning in even the smallest choices.
Connecting with these ideals simply, even reducing them to three words or so, allows a living meaning to take root in you so that it quietly guides your behavior and steers your choices. Words like home, education, and romance have become part of my guiding light, quiet reminders of how I want to live and what I want to nurture.
Small evidence of its guidance appears in the cozy home, the innovative games that are brought into the circle, the creative modes of patience, listening, and connecting with the kids. All of this inspires a feeling of romantic lift. It continues into the sunset as I play hide and seek with Geo and the dog. Into the evening with a yummy dinner. Into the odd hours of the night when Harry and I woke up to witness the large full Taurus Moon encircled in- what? a rainbow halo!!
Talk about a T(Aura!)s Full Moon.
The circle finds me again, colorful and ordered; the shape of strength, unity, and home. I sat against my screen door with my three black cats, moonstruck to the romantic education of nature.
Good evening earth
Good evening sky
Here are my friends (meow)
and here am I.
nature's zodiac 
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