Skip to content
Glasse Witch Cottage
  • Home
  • About Irene
  • Services
  • Book Now
  • Learn
  • YouTube
  • In-Person Events
  • Contact

Tag: holidays

Reconnecting: The Power of Form

Posted on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 by GlasseWitch

I sat where I always do, the thready mists of Helheim swirling before me.  The crowd had gathered again, an indistinct circle of hundreds around me. More an impression of a gathering of people than anything solid. I could smell apple blossom on the breeze. My heart hammered in my chest and I could feel…

Continue Reading

Spring Things: Designing a Challenge that Doesn’t Suck

Posted on March 1, 2021February 25, 2021 by GlasseWitch

Recently, Seo Helrune posted a question: if you were going to design a 30 day challenge, what would it be? That question got my wheels turning and they’ve been spinning ever since. I used to help manage a yoga studio and our Spring Challenge was one of my pet projects, so I’ve thought a lot…

Continue Reading

One Word ~An Intention for 2021

Posted on December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 by GlasseWitch

Many years ago, I was introduced to the idea of selecting a single word for each calendar year to act as an intention, touchstone, and big-picture goal. The beauty of a single word intention is that the simplicity means multiple ways of connecting are possible. For example, one of my words over the years was…

Continue Reading

The Buddy System: Coping in the Era of Coronavirus

Posted on December 7, 2020December 2, 2020 by GlasseWitch

When I was a kid, I spent many of my summers attending YMCA Day Camp programs. I grew up in Frederick, MD, and the region is blessed with abundant parks and forests. For each session of summer camp I attended, I had a buddy assigned to me.  One of the camp field trips I went…

Continue Reading

Yuletide 2020: Six Ways to Safely Center the Season

Posted on November 16, 2020November 12, 2020 by GlasseWitch

Right now, the sun is setting before 5 PM here in the mid-Atlantic and the days are only getting shorter. A season normally marked with family gatherings, festive events, circles, services, and bustling shopping malls looks a little different this year. Yuletide 2020 is shaping up to be a quieter, smaller, and more solitary affair….

Continue Reading

Five Ways to Show Your Pagan Pride Without a Festival

Posted on September 21, 2020 by GlasseWitch

For the last five years, September has had one specific focus for me – the Pagan Pride Day festival.  Like many CUUPS chapters, my own chapter hosts an annual Pagan Pride Day in Frederick, MD.  I have had the honor being the lead organizer since our inception. We have been fortunate – our festival has…

Continue Reading

Sermon: Lughnasadh ~ Life, Death, Harvest, Hope

Posted on August 5, 2020 by GlasseWitch

This sermon was for the August 2nd, 2020, service of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick. Sermon text below: My day begins in the garden right now.  I hand water my vegetables, fruit, and flowers with water from rain barrels.  There are more efficient ways to water a garden, but I’ve discovered that hand watering…

Continue Reading

Earthing the Holidays ~ The Metaphysics of Staying Sane

Posted on November 14, 2019 by GlasseWitch

“For many of us, the prospect of multiple family gatherings over the next couple months can be anxiety-inducing. Add shopping, holiday parties, school obligations and packed grocery stores, and we have the ingredients for a very stressful season. The good news is that we know it’s coming, which means we can prepare for it. So…

Continue Reading

How to Clean a A Grave ~ Samhain Cemetery Visits

Posted on October 28, 2019October 18, 2020 by GlasseWitch

October 31st marks one of the High Holidays in the widely-used Pagan Wheel of the Year – Samhain.  Out of all our holidays, I’d say this one gets the most press.  Our celebration of the end of the growing season coincides with all that is spooky in the larger culture.  This time of endings in…

Continue Reading

Spiraling Towards Shadow ~ Choosing Winter Work

Posted on September 23, 2019 by GlasseWitch

“The green world around us will appear to slip into death or sleep. The truth, of course, is that deep beneath the winter soil, the plant spirits are recovering: healing, resting, growing and rooting deep for their rise in springtime. When we follow the cycle of the inward spiral, we can take advantage of the…

Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Older posts

Irene Glasse

Hail and Welcome! I am a Mystic Witch based in Western Maryland. I offer musings and conversation here on my blog as well as readings, healings, pastoral counseling services, magickal and ritual work, guided study and more both in person and remotely.

Recent Posts

  • Reasons Not to Wrestle a Pig and Other Thoughts About Community Dynamics
  • Hold Fast: Staying Centered When the Spring Winds Blow
  • Reconnecting: The Power of Form
  • Spring Magick: Prayers on the Wing
  • Spring Things: Designing a Challenge that Doesn’t Suck

Recent Comments

  • One Word ~An Intention for 2021 – Yeah, So About That on One Word ~An Intention for 2021
  • GlasseWitch on Seeking Silence ~ Creating Quiet in a Wired World
  • RJ on Seeking Silence ~ Creating Quiet in a Wired World
  • Suzanne Thackston on Staying Grounded During Times of Transition
  • GlasseWitch on Spiritual Hygiene for Complicated Times

Archives

  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018

Categories

  • About
  • Ancestors
  • Community
  • Divination
  • Frederick CUUPS
  • Holidays
  • Introductions
  • Kindred Crow
  • Lifestyle
  • Magick
  • Music
  • Mysticism
  • Nature
  • Pagan
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Reviews
  • Rituals
  • Self-Care
  • Sermons
  • Services
  • Shadow work
  • Tarot
  • Uncategorized
  • Witchcraft
© All Right Reserved
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Bloge by Canyon Themes.