Click here to discover theA Guided Meditation to Speak with Freya Imagine stained glass, and bay windows. Outside rolls stardust swirling around the glass, asteroids roll about, and out, you are now riding a triple-cabled conduit, long serpentine strands of flaming plasma, shim…
Winter solstice is a time for reviewing. To soberly look into areas of in-completion, areas that are unresolved, it is a time for bringing those dusty parts into awareness, into light. It is a time for clearing out and creating space. Wide open clear space. For the new. After a powerful ritual in our Women’s [Read More...]
Om Lalita Tripurasundari Rajarajeshvari Namaha
Dearest,
Thank you for making the Wonderful Videos on your Welcome Page – they are very informative.
However, I personally don’t feel that Our Divine Mother God of All had ever taken or is likely to tak…
Once every several hundred years, we have a full Moon lunar eclipse on the Winter Solstice. And that’s approximately how often I will ever agree with anything that Ross Douthat has to say. So it’s especially amazing that both events would occur withi…
We used to have a movie of the beautiful carol “Hail to the Princess” at the Chapel, but Google Video unceremoniously shut down everyones videos a while back and foolishly, we had no backup.
We still don’t have the movie, but we do now have another re…
From Strategic Sorcery:Now you may not know this about me, but I am the mythic Yuleclipse Fairy. I need you to know a few things.Tuesday is a lunar eclipse. It will be visible from most of North AmericaTuesday is also the Winter Solstice – the longest …
If something is really, honestly indefensible, it can be defeated. The people perpetrating that indefensible thing will want you to think that what they are doing is inevitable. They will want you to think that it cannot possibly be changed or fixed. T…
THE VASTEST THINGS ARE THOSE WE MAY NOT LEARNThe vastest things are those we may not learn.We are not taught to die, nor to be born,Nor how to burnWith love.How pitiful is our enforced returnTo those small things we are the masters of.~Mervyn Peake****…
Chaos has been tied in knots, with great struggle, to bind the entire star-looped loom together, that it might not pull apart. And do Powers Whole preserve this bind and weave, to ensure the marauding beasts of discord do not run amok and tear the cloth to shreds? Indeed they do, with such tremendous arms of manly might and wizards’ cunning we can hardly fathom, for all our gratitude for this miracle of order out of could-be anything-else, could-be nothing-at-all, could-be always-falling-apart, and we complain when it fails? Ah, what fools we are, that every wish we whim comes not to fruit we plead the victim, when we might not be at all, and all for them who bind and taut the net that it might hold against the raging darkness! Let us praise the binders who shaped this tendril-stuff into strongest cables that in mesh the world together hold! Praise them!
New Thought (a.k.a. “The Secret”, “The Law of Attraction”) Summarized:1. You are being punished for your thoughts.2. Your thoughts are sinful, and so you reap the consequences. (Based on Jesus’ teaching that if someone looks upon a woman with adulterou…
Amazing.
Here’s an article about a Winter Solstice celebration that manages to trip both of my switches. First of all, there’s no reason why “Pagan” shouldn’t be capitalized throughout this article. If the author were writing about a Catholic celebration of C…
Brother and Sisterby Terri Windlingdo you remember, brotherthose days in the woodwhen you ran with the deerfalling bloody on my doorstep at duskstepping from the skingrateful to be a man?and do you know, brotherjust how I longedto wrap myself in the go…
In early December, in the very last lap of the year of 2010, another dream of mine came through: I was invited to give a TEDx talk! It was the amazing powerhouse-women of SeeJaneDo, who against all odds managed to be chosen to arrange a TEDx Women’s conference right here where I live in the [Read More...]
What Gus Said.Picture found here.
It’s not, as we all know, really, at least astrologically, Mid-Winter. In fact, it’s still, for a few more days, technically Autumn. Real Mid-Winter is late February when it (normally, and, oh, Goddess, please again this year!) begins to warm up alon…
There is a discipline of the wild. The word “awe” once included not only the sense of wonder and respect, but discipline and rigor, the kind of attention and dedication awe inspires. To that which awes us, we owe disciplined attention and dedicated rig…
About two decades ago, I was doing something v difficult and, one evening when things seemed most difficult, I got a blast of energy from my future that sustained me and got me through the rough time. It taught me more than I can say about sending mag…
Perceiving the animal nature of the other is an authentic perceptive goal for which to strive in the heathen tradition, for the Fylgia or personal guardian of each often appeared in the shape of that animal nature that has been allotted to the person b…
I wrote Wyrd Megin Thew in my second year of heathenry. It represents two years of deep engagement with the tradition, after having mastered its contents, but going further into profound, intuitive meditation of the material. I filled up at least…
I put out birdseed and peanuts this icy morning and the squirrels, birds, chipmunks, and a big brown rabbit showed up. I looked at that leggy old rabbit and wondered, “What are you here for?” She looked back at me with the largest brown eyes. I went…
Guest blog by Cynthia Kersey The idea comes to you like a lightning bolt. A-ha, that’s it! It’s the perfect gift. It is thoughtful and personal and it will bring great joy to the other person. You can imagine their face when they open it; the big smile, the surprised and delighted eyes and perhaps [Read More...]
Landscapes one needs
Colors for which one hungers
Times of the day one seldom sees.
The right display of bark
The badger’s cubby hole
The hawk’s spread of rusty wing
The lopsided hand-built architecture.
Soul says, take me out to see these things.
Odr says, let me wander far and wide.
For I am not whole without beholding
All the quirks the world’s strange mirrors
Let me see in me, alive.
hat tip: Bouphonia
Gardeners love to talk about the bones of their garden, especially at this time of year. By “bones”, they mean the naked trees, stark walkways, walls, mulched spots, and other permanent features, which somehow seem to stand out very clearly once all t…
Guest blog by Toko-pa Turner For as long as I can remember, New Age gurus have been telling us to “stay in the light.” They tell us to meditate, generate and emanate positivity, warning us that we create our own reality and negative thinking begets negative results. But if you’ve ever found yourself cringing before [Read More...]
Landscape Guy and I got together last week to exchange holiday gifts. He’s quite a good giver of gifts; this year, he gave me Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart, which I’ve been longing to read. It’s odd, isn’t it, how some people just do manage to give re…
They call her the Follower, and yet we follow her. We long for her. Sometimes she seems so far away for we have fled her and do not know the way back home. Then we look out the window with wist and wish for her. Sometimes we do not know it is she we lo…
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