The very first pre-Christian Deity I served was Brigid, an Irish goddess. As a young musician with a military background, she was easy for me to relate to. “A musician AND a blacksmith? Sign me up! I want to make music and hit things too!” I still consider my time in service to her to…
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This blog is a guest post for EarthSpirit Voices Within the pattern of the Wheel of the Year, Winter Work is a specific area of self-work we engage in during the dark months of the year. As the lessons and wisdom of our time together at Twilight Covening settle within us, we turn our attention…
I feel a little bit like I’m spinning my wheels right now. I work hard, but it often seems like any headway I make is short-lived, or simply reveals yet another task lurking beneath the stack I clear. I wrestle with the needs that are expressed to me and whether or not I can meet…
I can make most divination systems work for me. The earliest skill I developed as a witch was tarot reading, and it remains one of my strongest suits. For some reason, that skill set spills over to most other divinatory tools. Pendulums, runes, ogham, oracle cards…I can get good information most of the time from…
I designed this spread as the result of a query: “What are the next steps along my spiritual path?” I have a few different spreads I could use to answer this question, but none of them felt right for some reason. I browsed around online and didn’t like any of the spreads I saw there,…
Some days, there’s just not enough coffee in the universe to get me going. During most of the year, doldrum days are pretty rare for me. I generally have good forward momentum: I have dreams and visions I’m trying to manifest, sacred Work I’m focused on, and a beloved community to serve. For some…
I’ve written before about the way patterns emerge in my life – the repetition of themes, needs, and issues people are going through. For better or worse, it seems like a lot of us ride similar waves at the same time. It was a hard winter, a very challenging early spring, and then the month…
In the world of Tarot, there are a handful of cards that punch incredibly hard. The Major Arcana, the section of a Tarot deck that holds cards for the larger themes in life, includes a card that is the divinatory equivalent of ‘Rocks fall, everyone dies.’ That card is the Tower. The polite interpretation of…
The July sun shines bright and merry in the summer sky and the vegetables are starting to be heavy with this year’s harvest. This time of year, we would normally be several Pagan gatherings in and the lack of time with my chosen community weighs heavily on me. I find my thoughts returning again and…
What can I say that ten thousand other writers have not? Right now, our entire world is sharing a new experience. Our ‘normal’ has come to a screeching halt. We are learning new ways to move through our days, encountering new obstacles and finding new silver linings. We are all off kilter. NONE of us…