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There are only two things now, The great black night scooped out And this fire-glow. This fire-glow, the core, And we the two ripe pips That are held in store. Listen, the darkness rings As it circulates round our fire. Take off your things. Your shoul…
Sistahs, just last night my shrine gave me one last lesson to learn for the year of 2010 – responsibility. This year all I can do is give so much thanks to the Mother Spirit for nurturing me, teaching me and helping me to re-remember the SHE in ME. For…
Well, this is disturbing. Ed Brayton notes that:While I was on vacation, Chris Rodda reported here on a very disturbing new development in the ongoing battle between the military and the constitutional rights of non-Christians. The Army sends out a ma…
The Day of Sai Herthe falls on the Western New Year’s Eve. It is the great feast of the hearthfire and the home.
I know kisses are medicineI know the ocean heals.I know my mother loves me.Open the doors open the windowsopen the chimney and sweep out the cupboards of shame-filled crumbs.Shake the rugs and empty the bottoms of the closets.Dust off the cowgirl boots…
We’ve been, for the past several weeks, enduring much-colder-than-normal temperatures here in the melodic MidAtlantic. This weekend’s snow storm mostly — miraculously — missed the areas around my little cottage, but we had really strong winds that m…
To me the Awakening Women Way is both an inner journey as well as an outer journey, and the outer journey has taken me around the world and I’ve been meeting with thousands of women in many countries by now. Together we are exploring, like we are exploring together here, how we can live a [Read More...]
Maybe it’s the slowly-growing light. Maybe it’s the mystically epic winds that have been blowing new ideas all over my snug little cottage. Maybe it’s the way that the still-long-dark nights dance in my consciousness, but, whatever the reason, my dre…
So, there is still snow in those bits of the yard (Northernmost exposure, and corners in the South East and South West) that get the least amount of Winter sun. Our serious winds have abated a bit, leaving lots of kindling spread across the yard, but …
I had my annual mammogram today. Since I was diagnosed with breast cancer — a little over 13 years ago — I’ve had a lot of them. Occasionally something weird shows up, I have a biopsy or an aspiration or whatever, and then we do them three times a …
Nativity has not ended, but what has ended is Astraea, the Star-month. We are now in Herthe, the Hearthfire-month.
In Astraea, the Star-month we look upward and in Herthe, the Hearth-month we look inward. Nativity is the Northern Gate of the Cosmos th…
Sistahs,I can’t seem to express how much I appreciate and LUV my life! I have learned this year that it is important to keep pushin’, sometimes even fighten’ for the things you deserve even when it seems that challenges are insurmountable. Last week my…
This grey afternoon, a dear old Pagan friend of mine came over and we hung out, chatted while we made organic Swiss Chard and barley (I love cooking with friends; I need to do more of this!), did some ecstatic dance, watched the birds at the bird feede…
This grey afternoon, a dear old Pagan friend of mine came over and we hung out, chatted while we made organic Swiss Chard and barley (I love cooking with friends; I need to do more of this!), did some ecstatic dance, watched the birds at the bird feede…
Nativity is the most joyful festival of the Faith of Our Mother God. Is it just Christmas in feminine clothing? Why do we feel the “Nativity Spirit”? Learn all about this magical festival.
Doing a bit of end-of-calendar-year housekeeping on the Blog List. Now’s a good time to let me know, “Hey, I haven’t posted in a bit, but I’m ramping up, so don’t remove me,” or “Yo! I wish you wouldn’t list me; I don’t want to be associated with teh…
Flight From Embodiment from Alliance for Wild Ethics on Vimeo.Shadows WILL show up and make themselves known, no matter how hard we try to squish them down. It’s not just what they do; it’s who they are.
One of the things that I’ve been thinking about lately is gifts. I love giving gifts, often gifts not associated at all with any recognized holiday. And I love to receive gifts from people who have spent time thinking about who I am and what I’d like…
/hat tip comments at Eschaton
Dancing with Green BeesFind your way to the third hearthto become a woman of clay — again.Just when you believe you arethe definition of thirst,have endured too many erasuressealed inside a sere landscape,you will whirl into the danceof dragonflies.Or…
As regular readers know, it’s important to my spiritual practice to be in active relationship with a specific piece of land, rather than just having warm feelings for the intellectual construct of “the Land” or “Earth.” A large part of my daily practi…
For the last few days, we’ve had very strong winds, making our below-normal, cold temps feel even colder. Wind, for me, is all about the Powers of the East, Air, Dawn, New Beginnings, Swords. At our Solstice celebration, I was talking with one of my …
And though the last lights off the black West wentOh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -Because Sophia over the bentWorld broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.~with apologies to Gerard Manley HopkinsAnd, so, although I have li…
Now that we’ve gotten rid of “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell” maybe we could ratify the ERA?Picture found here.
Here’s a nice story about the Stonehenge Solstice celebration. Kudos to the author for understanding how to capitalize.And, here’s another nice one about Icelandic Asatru and other Pagans celebrating the returning sun. Kudos again for correct capital…
She is excessin lossof every shebeyondyou seekslippedso whom you missnot sheBut She.
And then there was bitterness of rocks crushed in waters drawn from sulphur springs, and tisaned with agrimony ; there was the cold block of ice cut from the frozen lake ; chill that dulled and buffeted the bones ; and sore need that gnawed at a man,…
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