Daily Signet

Clouds threaten overhead and thicken in the sky. 
The ground swells and shifts beneath my feet. 
The fountains of the deep burst open 
and the flood gates of the sky swing wide apart. 
All that was known, awash with the unknown; 
all that was grounded, upended and unleashed. 
What was overhead and underfoot, 
now a blur with rain and flood, 
and I am launched in search of dry ground, 
in quest of life renewed. 

From The Mystery of the Quest Service

On This Day…

Navaratri begins (Hindu)— a 9 night festival that honors the Moterh Goddess in all her manifestations, including Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati.

St. Theresa of Avila: mystic and religious founder, D. 1582

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) born in 70 BC in Virgilio, Lombardy, Italy: Roman poet, author of The Ecologues, The Georgics and The Aneid
Quotes: “Each of us bears his own hell.” “Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.”

Helen Hunt Jackson born in 1830 in Amherst, Maine, died 1885: activist for improved treatment of American Indians and writer remembered for Ramona, A Century of Dishonor and A Calendar of Sonnets   
Quotes: “By all these lovely tokens, September days are here, with summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” “Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; each to his passion, what’s in a name?”