Wicca and Mother Goddess

My brilliant friend NTodd has a good post that shows the historical developments in the growing field of performing effective revolutions. One hopes that, as people gain more experience with the business of overthrowing repressive regimes, they’ll pay…

ANNOUNCEMENT: IF YOU WERE PART OF THE 5 THAT SUBMITTED FOR THE LUNAR CALENDAR, PLEASE EMAIL SISTAHGODDESS@GMAIL.COM AND GIVE ME YOUR ADDRESS! THANK YOU!!!ANOTHER WOMBYN STUDIES TREAT! ALTARS AND SACRED SPACESSistahs, if you have not joined us for the W…

I mentioned recently to some friends that, as a Pagan, I’m preparing to celebrate Imbolc. One of my friends replied, “Really? Your sheep are lactating?” My response is that “lactating sheep” is an old way of describing a complicated process that als…

You are a magnificent, unique and brilliant woman. Each time you fully show up as you, the entire celestial gallery of Goddesses are throwing their hands in the air, howling in ecstasy. But, even though you know you want to live this precious life with all you got…you want to feel the breeze on your [Read More...]

Here’s some more David Whyte; the film is a bit jerky, but close your eyes and listen to him read his own poetry.On Imbolc, may you see what you need to see, inscribed across the heavens or written in the ashes, but written inside you.

Everything is Waiting for YouYour great mistake is to act the dramaas if you were alone. As if lifewere a progressive and cunning crimewith no witness to the tiny hiddentransgressions. To feel abandoned is to denythe intimacy of your surroundings. Sure…

The trouble is, the model of “religion” available from the monotheists is just wrong. Every seven days, everyone lines up and listens to holy books or to a long sermon or bangs their heads on the floor. That just is not us. We are supposed to be a…

Now seems like a good time to go light a candle and send some Reiki/good vibes/positive energy to Egypt, Kemet, Ht-ka-Ptah, Misr, the Land of the Nile, home of Isis, the land guarded by Ma’at.May there be peace. May there be food for the people. May …

I’ve complained before that Pagans tend to underuse and misuse YouTube. Go to YouTube and search, for example, “Wicca,” and you get a lot of slide shows with pictures taken from the web and some music (often peppered with a number of misspellings), or…

Greetings Sistahs,I have been sitting on these wonderful LUNAR Calendars for the last couple of weeks! I have been meaning to just randomly give them away but have been pretty busy. We are getting ready to head into February AND I want some of my speci…

For four years I had the honor to meet with a very special circle of girls. They were fourteen young women and we started to meet when they were in sixth grade. The story that follows is about a practice we did together the first time we got together. One of the girls, Anna, had [Read More...]

Comcast is out here in my corner of the mighty MidAtlantic. Please check out some of the great blogs in my blog list.

It began to snow heavily here within the last couple of hours and I’ve been out on the porch every couple of minutes, simply watching and being with the rapid transformation of the land. A really major part of my spiritual practice, and one that’s pre…

There are several cool things coming up; a few local and one global.First, if you live in, or near, DC, or if you can get here, mark your calendar now so you’ll remember to attend the Red Dragon Feast on February 12th. The Feast is scheduled from 2:00…

I’m still working my way through Trials of the Moon: Reopening the Case for Historical Witchcraft. A Critique of Ronald Hutton’s Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, a recent book by New Zealand Pagan Ben Whitmore. And I may ha…

The poet Robert Burns was born 252 years ago. I love him.

Guest Blog by Lone Morch The other day, a reporter from a national women’s magazine contacted me wanting to get a few unsexy facts about sex. Who cares? I don’t think I can bear another article that tells us that sex: increases your heart rate, decreases colesterol, builds muscles, burns calories, relaxes you, releases important [Read More...]

It’s been brutally cold here in the magic-crammed MidAtlantic. The beautiful Potomac River is almost entirely iced over and the Canada Geese and mallard ducks are hard-pressed to find even a few spots where they can swim and dive for food. The ground…

Winter Fairy Rehearsal

This.So when Comstock and his fellow inspectors showed up at her cramped residence on West 23rd Street with a warrant for her arrest, Craddock steeled herself anew. “I wish to fight right through to a finish,” she wrote her lawyer shortly afterward. “A…

I can almost feel Imbolc stirring itself from deep inside my Mother and beginning to rise through the root-chilling red clay and rock-hard frozen surface of my tiny bit of Earth. I am longing like a thirsty woman for a taste of that icy water of inspi…

I am in the middle of creative explosion. I could call it challenging, trail blazing, obsessive, divinely inspired, mad, exhausting, blissful, meaningful. High. Fast. Vast. Ferocious (and many more words if I was more fluent in the English language.) Lets just call it intense. It is in times like this I get to experience the [Read More...]

I am in the middle of a creative explosion. I could call it challenging, trail blazing, obsessive, divinely inspired, mad, exhausting, blissful, meaningful. High. Fast. Vast. Ferocious (and many more words if I was more fluent in the English language.) Lets just call it intense. It is in times like this I get to experience [Read More...]

Hi, I had an exuberant little conversation with fabulous Dyana Valentine today about the Virtual  Women’s ashram.  Take 5 minutes and get inspired to live your life in the deep waters of the feminine, get rid of uncomfortable underwear, and to …

There’s this:Premises 1 through 10and, this:As the current round of catabolism picks up speed, a great many jobs will go away, and most of them will never return; a great many people who depend on those jobs will descend into poverty, and most of them …

There’s a gorgeous full Moon in the sky.Breathe.Come back into your body.Remember.Breathe.Picture found here.

It can be difficult, as I discussed recently, to find good Pagan books. This week, I’ve begun reading — and am being blown away by — David Abram’s Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology. Abram, to my knowledge, doesn’t self-identify as a Pagan, alt…

Not going to segregate my moral concerns..