My grandmother, or Mormor, in Swedish, was one of the most important people in my life for many reasons, not the least of which was that she was able to solve any problem one might have. She could find creative solutions for everything. When I was growing up, she had a house in Chicago with the most amazing backporch. When I used to play Dungeons & Dragons in college, one of the magical items was a Bag of Many Things. This was a magical bag that held a seemingly infinite amount of items. Mormor’s backporch was like that.

I have had several careers over my lifetime before I made the decision to do what I love and become an astrologer. One of those careers was as a teacher. When I was a student teacher, I lived with Mormor. Whenever I needed something for a class, all I had to do was to ask her, and she would go to her backporch, bring out various items and contrive them together into the exact thing that I needed. It was truly magical and amazing. When I moved out into my own apartment, I was able to leave with many things I needed, including a dining room table, from the treasures on her backporch.

When Mormor moved from her house in Chicago, she got rid of many of her belongings, so her new backporch no longer had the same sorts of material treasures. She still had a back porch, however, and the new back porch held treasures of a different sort. Mormor would often sit on her backporch, and it was there that her and I had some of our best conversations, about all sorts of things.

I  started the site which is now called, The Wisdom of our Grandmothers, which was intended as an all purpose blog for my astrology business as well as all of my other interests. I then gathered my writings from various blogs through the years, and as it so happened, there was quite a varied assortment.  Thinking that for an astrology practice, I ought to have a site that was much more focused, I started the site, The Stars Within Their Courses. Yet, even after that, I thought that the Wisdom site might a little too scattered and unfocused for readers, particularly as on that site, I want to explore deep issues with respect to feminine tradition and question some underlying assumptions in astrology.

So, I started this site for articles about all of my varied interests, from Anime, to knitting and crocheting, to gardening, to language studies and so forth and so forth. At times, if I am feeling brave, I may write in Japanese, and if I am feeling exceptionally brave, I may write in Swedish.

I hope you enjoy this blog.

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