A Book of Ceremonies & Spiritual Energies Thereof
$25.00

a book of spiritual wisdom for all days
$23.00

Introduction

The entries* in this compilation are based upon spiritual intuitive consultations from the past twenty years. I am gifted with spiritual insight, the ability to be a “medium” for those who have passed over, and have had the opportunity to work with many people who have come to me to ask for guidance, spiritual support, and to contact their loved ones. Though it is impossible for any spiritual medium to claim accuracy a hundred percent of the time, I am blessed with a gift strong enough to be able to be used by Spirit** to help others in times of need.
Some of the subjects in these entries were once considered “taboo to discuss.” That time has passed. We are now in a spiritual shift where we must deal with everything that has happened to us, consider the possibilities of future happenings, and glean wisdom from these to help us continue to thrive in our spiritual progress on this planet.
I do not claim to be an expert on any one subject. I do not claim to be anything other than who I am: a woman who has the uncanny ability to listen to the other side and bring forth messages. I give credit to Spirit for this gift, and for allowing me to be a vessel.
Although broken at times, I am willing to keep going forward during the mending.
The quotes at the beginning of each entry are from my collective writings – some old, some new.
My objective is to help those who can be helped with these insights.
Again, I thank Spirit for allowing me to share.

MariJo Moore, 2011
In the mountains of western North Carolina

** Please note there are four weekly entries for each of the twelve months. I am aware that some months sometimes have five weeks, but in order to use this book during any year, I suggest during the months with five weeks, you choose one of the four entries and use it for two weeks.
** Spirit is used synonymously with God, Creator, Universe and All There Is.

"I am so enjoying your new book: A Book of Spiritual Wisdom - for all days. It so far has been exactly what I have needed every week; when I read each week's guidance, I say how did she know that's exactly what I am thinking, doing, and need!? I find it so helpful and I am doing the homework. It is great!"
- Suzie Engel RN and Healing Touch Facilitator

A review of A Book of Spiritual Wisdom by MariJo Moore

By: H. Byron Ballard

MariJo Moore wears many hats, as anyone who knows her work can attest. She is sober (a feat of which she is justifiably proud), she is a poet, an artist, a psychic, a mom and grandmom, a woman whose blood is Cherokee and Dutch and Irish.
Moore is a spirit-blessed woman who works with clients near and far to help them settle the disturbances in their lives. She gentles them, admonishes them, instructs them.
That admonishment is also present in her book of wisdom.  At the end of each week's essay is a brief couplet reflecting on the value lessons of that week.  Each one ends with "Be strong"—invitation, advice and warning, all rolled into one terse phrase.
The book is not quite pocket-sized, but still easily transportable. Which is a good thing, because you may want to have A Book of Spiritual Wisdom for All Days close by when the going gets tough.
The little book is divided neatly into months, with an essay for each of the four weeks. The facing page of each lesson is blank for the reader's reflections on the writing and how it may have affected their outlook on the issue.
Listen—
July. Week One.
Spirituality and creativity are deeply connected in children. This connection needs to be fed if children are to believe they have a place in this world… Inspiring them to produce creative works through that spiritual connection can become one of our greatest joys in life.
Here's one from September—
Week Three.
Whatever you feel is dragging you down is simply trying to get your attention… Time to search your heart and find what it is you should be doing. Time to live instead of exist.
Simple. Direct. Personal.  This book is loaded with opportunities to retool and re-focus our thinking.
In her introduction, Moore gives us a little of the backstory on the creation of this book. She has taken quotes from her other work—you may be familiar with her tiny books, including "Crow Quotes" and "Tree Quotes"—to highlight the theme of each essay. She writes of her gift for working as a vessel for Spirit and speaks of the work she does when she is not writing or creating her collage-art.
I've lived with this little book since April of this year and I pick it up sometimes during my morning meditation time. It is very easy to use—the print is a good size and the book is user-friendly.  Starting with the beginning quote, I pause and think, meditate, pray. Then I move through the essay that follows. Not all of the entries resonate with me but even those are intriguing and give me a more thoughtful start to the day.
This book will also make a good gift for someone going through a challenging time—and who isn't doing that these days? Too often, we find ourselves at a loss to bring comfort and cheer to those we love. Here is a handy tool for the sort of deep work that many of us find ourselves engaging.
And be sure to check out the author picture in the back of the book.  It'll knock your socks off.

A Book of Spiritual Wisdom for All Days is published by rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING and is available at local bookstores or through the author's website at www.marijomoore.com

H. Byron Ballard is an Appalachian woman with deep, gnarly roots in western North Carolina. She holds a BA from UNC-Asheville and a MFA from Trinity University. Her writings have appeared in local and national print and electronic media. Byron is an organic gardener and a beekeeper.

Review from WNC Woman Magazine

The Diamond Doorknob
$25.00

20 years in the writing, this book promises to deliver a range of emotions. A bevy of unforgettable characters, trying times, spiritual awareness, and raw humor offer a world never fully revealed before now.

 

 

when the Dead Dream
$25.00

I cannot believe anyone with any degree of perception can read this book
and not be changed by it. Changed, certainly, in the way they see people
who are different, but also in relation to all that is around them, to time,
life and the universe, and ultimately how they view themselves.
-Doris Seale
Author of Blood Salt, Ghost Dance, co-editor/ author of Through Indian Eyes,
A Broken Flute, and co-founder of Oyate

One of the deep pleasures of reading is giving oneself over to a gifted storyteller for the duration of the trip. MariJo Moore eases our transition into her several worlds and then holds us there, willing us to travel roads that are winding, difficult and revelatory. When the Dead Dream may be her masterwork—a sinuous and stony path where we encounter monsters as well as jewels. It is not for the faint-hearted and not to be missed.

- H. Byron Ballard
Author of Back to the Garden and Earth Work

Red Woman with Backward Eyes & other stories
$16.00

"A collection of stories intertwining many characters and events that have some connection to the Cherokee culture or reservation. Many social issues are dealt with...
but they are merely props to help the readers see the real subject which is the strength of Cherokee women."
-Cherokee One-Feather

Confessions of a Madwoman Audio cd
"An Oral Journey"
$13.00

Selected poems from the book Confessions of a Madwoman read by MariJo Moore accompanied with original music by Doll Imago - piano infused with electronic soundscapes and organic rhythms setting the mood and enhancing the meaning of the words.

Confessions of a Madwoman
$13.00

Intensity. From “creativity is existence” to “my mind is. . .a wild bird” to “the last fire in hell/ smoldering” to “I want my divided soul to erupt/ dance naked around these stones.” Intensity you can’t avoid! Because it is determination, persistence, struggle and endurance, passion, creative fervor—“fires of creativity”—and exaltation of “how it is to be loved by a madwoman.” I might as well say it is truly an experience to read MariJo Moore’s Confessions of a Madwoman!
­ Simon J. Ortiz
Author of The Good Rainbow Road and Beyond the Reach of Time and Change

To be a poet is a madness circling one’s soul, a constant companion. Words bring MariJo to this beginning and ending, without hesitation she flies with wings un-fluttered by manmade events...to be true to her words are to live and be.
- Emoke B’Racz
Imre Margit lanya, poet, translator of Katalin Ladik

Moore's ancient instincts flash through these poems with a blood thirst for lawless imagination, the madness born of passion, and the indigenous honesty of lovely wilderness creatures.
- Tom Kerr, publisher,
The Underground Asheville Guide Book, "Western North Carolina Columnist of the Year 2003"
Asheville Citizen Times

Spirit Voices of Bones
16.00

A collection of over 60 poems, this book addresses a wide variety of issues and subjects. It has several unusual and noteworthy features including a poem called "Solidarity in the Night" which appears in English, and eleven different native languages including Eastern Cherokee and Navajo.

"The crisp, clear and evocative poetry of MariJo Moore is leading the way in raising American Indian poetry from merely ethnic reflections to a universal form of emotional expression. Reading her verse is like taking a long cool drink of water on a hellishly hot day - refreshing and satisfying!!"

-Vine Deloria Jr. author of God is Red, and The World We Used to Live In

Crow Quotes
$8.00

"The color of one's skin cannot determine how fragile is a heart."

A pocket size book of spiritual aphorisms printed on tree-free paper.

Desert Quotes
$8.00

"Desert music can be deep and sad when the sand cries for its old lover, the ocean."

A pocket size book of spiritual aphorisms printed on tree-free paper.

tree quotes
2nd Edition
$12.00

Trees are sometimes quiet, like the moon.
And sometimes, they breathe sounds
that can be heard for generations.

 

The Boy with a Tree Growing from his Ear & Other Stories
by marijo moore
limited first edition
published By renegade planets publishing
$35.00

“This unique and beautiful collection of stories calls upon the reader to see the
world, and existence, as something much more mysterious, and strange, than we are accustomed to, or are willing to believe in. Moore's work has always offered this challenge. Here, she tells us, is a book that is "an assemblage that chose its own parts..." The results are stunning. The stories insist that we really look at the power and wonder-and sometimes terror - of a universe that we are only beginning to understand; that we hardly know at all.
- Doris Seale
Founder of Oyaté, author of Blood Salt, Ghost Dance, and co-editor of Through Indian Eyes
and A Broken Flute

“MariJo Moore is a storyteller, relating dreams and memories, hopes and ironies of her mountain heritage. If you listen to her telling you may find her stories become your own, stories you need but had forgotten. For these are stories of the larger community of the imagination, of pain and curiosity, the surprises and satisfaction of our humanity.”
- Robert Morgan
Author of Brave Enemies and Boone: A Biography

"MariJo Moore's magical stories evoke the mystery of the WNC Mountains. Her writing makes you search deep down for something you know is there, but you're not sure you can find...or if you should."
- Leisa Stamey
Branch Manager, Enka/Candler Library, North Carolina

“MariJo Moore's mesmerizing medley of characters, both delightful and disturbing, reach out from the pages and draw you into their worlds; worlds tinged with bitter-sweet southern appeal, woven from the ancient threads of an indigenous storyteller, and painted with a precisely portioned pallet of shades, both dark and light.”
- Amy Krout-Horn
Author of Transcendence and My Father's Blood

Rapid River Arts & Culture

The only thing more fun than attending a MariJo Moore bookstore reading is devouring the book yourself. Moore’s fans will have lots of tasty morsels in her latest short story collection, The Boy with a Tree Growing from His Ear (rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING).

“Being fooled is part of being alive,” Moore says, so her characters are always in for a lot of surprises. In addition to the kid with the strange ear plant, there’s an old lady who dances with crows, a blood-weary serial killer, a Mexican musician who regrets seeking a fortune teller, a boy who polishes his gravestone, and a gal named MeMe who has a thing for Russian author Maxim Gorky. MeMe writes as Moore does —
“by placing words by words that had not before been introduced to each other.”

Some themes are as earthbound as today’s headlines — murder, insanity, poverty and loneliness. However, being written by Moore, who has a strong spiritual bent, the stories soar to find moorings in ancient mysteries and eerie synchronicities. When you start reading a story in Boy, you know one thing for sure — you can’t possibly guess where it’s going to end until you get there.

The collection is illustrated with full- color artwork, including one of Moore’s own dream-like collages, all of which add unexpected extra pleasures to her words.
- Cauley Bennett

Mountain XPress 

“This is more of a mainstream type of book,” explains author MariJo Moore, referring to her newest publication, The Boy with a Tree Growing from His Ear and Other Stories (rENEGADE planets Publishing, 2009). Those who have not yet encountered her stories naturally assume that she means it is more traditional and conventional — and from Moore’s perspective it probably is. But readers familiar with the award-winning writer’s work will first consider the source. 

They know that when Moore’s complex characters and plots start down a middle-of-the-road path, the literary journey soon straddles the mundane mortal world and the phantasmagoric realm of spirits, phantoms and paranormal activity. So when Moore says “It’s my crossover book,” many readers wonder whether she is talking about a simple shift in genre, or the phenomenon of crossing over from the land of the living into the domain of the dead. 

After all, Moore is not just a gifted wordsmith, but she was also born with what she describes as “the gift.” While she is renowned as a writer, she is also a clairvoyant. Many of Moore’s poems are, in fact, inspired by lucid dreams or mystic visions. But The Boy with a Tree Growing from His Ear and Other Stories is considered her crossover, Moore says, “because it’s not just about American Indians.” Moore has been celebrated for her Native American novels and stories, earning a variety of accolades. With this new book, Moore says she did not focus exclusively on stories of indigenous people. 

“Although most of the stories are set in the mountains of North Carolina — and one even takes place inside downtown Asheville’s own Malaprop’s Bookstore — they don’t stick to any particular concept other than my own eccentricity,” says Moore. Doris Seale, author of Blood Salt and Ghost Dance, and co-editor of Through Indian Eyes and A Broken Flute, reviewed the stories and described them as a “unique and beautiful collection” that calls upon the reader “to see the world, and existence, as something much more mysterious, and strange, than we are accustomed to, or are willing to believe in.” 

The imagery-rich book — which Moore says she regards as a kind of theatrical production set to words on paper — is also illustrated with vivid pictures that were chosen because, as she explains, “I see so many images when I am writing; I thought it would be a refreshing idea to add artwork. Some of the stories are even built around a particular piece of art, such as ‘Darkness,’ which is about a serial killer of Italian descent who is obsessed with Caravaggio’s ‘David with the Head of Goliath.’” 

So even as she ventures into “mainstream” territory, Moore’s artistic inspiration continues to be mysterious, her characters retain their colorful quirkiness and her creative appetite remains strong. 
- Tommy Kerr