Click here to discover theDolores Ashcroft-Nowicki: People often say to me, “You’re 81 years old; where do you get the energy from?” and I say, “I get it from that wholeness.” I move out in my mind into that immensity of space and there is that, that warmth, that sense of wel…
Now that I’ve been home for (almost!) a week in my snug little cottage with the bricks, and river stones, and lanterns interposed between me and the chilly, Autumn rain, and now that my old body is beginning to remember what time zone and what season t…
What Crabby Old Lady Said.hat tip/Diane in comments at EschatonPicture found here. Warning: Lots of ads.
The Thursar do not know that Yggdrasil exists. Its glassy gold is to them, as to many of us, invisible, and thus they laugh at its invocation. To them, only the chaos of monstrous matter, visible before their eyes, exists, and they know not, therefore,…
Putting rhetoric aside, and basing evaluation entirely upon actions and interactions, I would define the heathen community at present largely as a group dedicated to the worship of Loki. I do not claim that this worship is explicit in terms of externa…
Sistahs, I have been thinking too hard lately! Really, I have been over a few scenarios over and over again trying to figure something out – trying to make a plan – formulate a way AND it is during those moments that something snaps or just comes undon…
I make a nice living working for The Man and I haven’t (yet) had to do a fundraiser here on the internets. But if you do enjoy my blog and you have a bit of money energy that you’d like to send back into the universe, you could donate it to Athenae’s …
Toad Lilies blooming in the woodland garden. These show up when almost all the other plants are through flowering. Grow well in shade. Completely poison. And, of course, “toad.” Perfect plants for a Witch’s garden.Photo by the author; if you copy,…
a piece of raw vegan cacao chocolate cake from Evolution Fast Food Restaurant – it was YUMMY!!! Hey Sistahs!I had to go to a business meeting last week and it had been with some folks who had not seen me in a while (since my juice fast) and they were r…
/Hat tip Susie Madrak
For me, as for many modern Pagans (most of whom live in urban areas), a trip to a wilderness spot such as Muir Woods is a once-in-a-lifetime event, a pilgrimage to a sacred site, a “Journey to the West” in search of wisdom. Such pilgrimages can be lif…
For me, as for many modern Pagans (most of whom live in urban areas), a trip to a wilderness spot such as Muir Woods is a once-in-a-lifetime event, a pilgrimage to a sacred site, a “Journey to the West” in search of wisdom. Such pilgrimages can be lif…
Poem (the spirit likes to dress up)The spirit likes to dress up like this: ten fingers, ten toes,shoulders, and all the rest at night in the black branches, in the morningin the blue branches of the world. It could float, of course, …
The words on the scroll held by the guardian angel (Teresa, Guardian of Mothers) are an apt description of Our Mother God.
God made a wonderful Mother who never grows old.
Her smile of sunshine and her heart of gold.
This angel statuary is accomp…
Let the trees be consulted before you take any action every time you breathe in thank a tree let tree roots crack parking lots at the world bank headquarters let loggers be druids specially trained and rewarded to sacrifice trees at auspicious times le…
Hurrahing in HarvestSummer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks riseAround; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviourOf silk-sack clouds! has wilder, willful-wavierMeal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?I walk, I lift up, I li…
OutOf a great needWe are all holding hands and climbing.Not loving is a letting go.Listen,The terrain around hereIs far too dangerousFor that.-HafizPhoto Credit to Mikaela Larm (taken at our annual women’s ashram in Greece)
Here’s a good article about an interview with Washington, D.C. witch, Katrina Messenger, concerning Christine O’Donnell’s claim that she “dabbled into witchcraft” during a picnic on a bloody, Satanic altar. This is one of the few times that my “don’t …
Witchcraft is all about living to the heights and depths of life as a way of worship.~LY DE ANGELES, Witchcraft: Theory and PracticePicture found here
Vikhedi the 17th of Abolan (Tuesday the 21st of September) is Cuivanya, the Feast of Divine Life.
This is the true Earth Festival of the Filianic year, being the central feast of the Autumnal season which corresponds to the element of earth and the go…
O Northern Neptune,my nuptials’ witness,many waved-hand benediction priest,have seen and given declarationto pronouncewife, and wives, and ebb-pulled back bride.I see her laced veil on thy curls.O, great Father of the Restive Deep!Longing is too long h…
On every full moon, rituals … take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics — women and men from many backgrounds come t…
It is for lack of praise the city falters.It is for lack of praise hearts do weary.When folk together do not come to praise,and therefore raise the holy powers, all the landis vanish’d of its magic so far as the tribe’s luck,which ebbing, a mere minimu…
Hey Sistahs!!!I have been quietly on an extended juice fast/feast for the last month and I finally eased into a gentle ending last week. It was truly a “sacrifice” that I needed to engage in to go to another level – to see “what I am made of…” ha hah…
This October, it will be seven years (a magical number if there ever was one, or, well, if there ever was an infinity) since I moved into this little cottage and I’m beginning to hatch plans for an all-night ritual of thanks, celebration, and renewal w…
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