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The Song of Spring ~ Encountering Omens in Nature

Posted on April 25, 2022April 24, 2022 by GlasseWitch

The return of spring is so joyous here in Western Maryland. It seems like the dawn chorus of birds gets a little louder every day as the warm sunlight convinces more spring flowers to open. With grateful hearts, we welcome back the growing season. We begin dusting off our hiking shoes and gardening gloves; we…

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The Power of the Playlist

Posted on January 17, 2022January 14, 2022 by GlasseWitch

I will never forget the first time I heard the music from the Pure Moods album in the early 90s. I was a tweeny and my parents brought home a copy of the CD. I clearly remember dancing around the living room while listening to it.  I needed to move my body in order to…

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Semper Gumby ~ Staying Flexible in Times of Change

Posted on January 10, 2022January 6, 2022 by GlasseWitch

The Marine Corps motto is ‘Semper Fidelis’ – Always Faithful. For those of us who served in the Corps, there’s another motto we heard regularly as well: ‘Semper Gumby.’ This amusing saying means ‘Always Flexible.’ I’ve been thinking about it a fair bit as the latest pendulum swing of the pandemic knocks over various events,…

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One Word ~ An Intention for 2022

Posted on December 27, 2021December 22, 2021 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, my word for 2020 was ‘Manifest.’  An interesting…

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Fallow Season ~ Burnout, Fatigue, and Sacred Rest

Posted on December 13, 2021December 10, 2021 by GlasseWitch

Within the world of agriculture, there is a vital part of crop growing known as letting land “lie fallow.”  To fallow a piece of earth is to leave it deliberately unsown – to let it rest. This time of rest allows more fertility to gather in the soil, guaranteeing a better crop later. It is…

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7 Ways to Welcome Winter

Posted on December 6, 2021December 2, 2021 by GlasseWitch

When my spouse and I first got together, they hated winter. An early career spent outdoors in the worst of the weather caused a strong aversion to everything related to the months of the inward spiral. Seven years on, they’ve shifted their viewpoint to a grudging tolerance for the season and genuine enjoyment of some…

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The Skin I’m In ~ A Reflection on ‘The Body Is Not An Apology’

Posted on September 27, 2021 by GlasseWitch

  When I turned 40, my social media feed changed. I’ve always gotten some advertisements for yoga and other fitness products and programs. I’m a yoga teacher, so I’m a good target for those kinds of ads. Likewise, I’ve always seen at least a handful of ads for makeup and hair products. But it seemed…

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The Autumn Awakening ~ Returning to Center

Posted on September 7, 2021 by GlasseWitch

Sometime during summer, I go a little dormant. The high heat and humidity where I live in the mid-Atlantic weighs heavily on me. I begin to drift, to slip into the doldrums. I tend to slide out of my patterns of practice and choose checking out rather than dialing in. I go through the motions…

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The Gratitude Project

Posted on August 2, 2021July 28, 2021 by GlasseWitch

When I look at the path of a river, I sometimes marvel at the way it cuts through stone to wend its flow through the landscape around me. I’m lucky enough to live near both the Potomac and Monocacy rivers and I’ve spent a lot of time wandering their shores and paddling kayaks along their…

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What to Wear to Your Resurrection and Other Thoughts on Identity

Posted on July 19, 2021July 16, 2021 by GlasseWitch

I was recently at dinner at my mother’s house and we were talking about how different her childhood was from my sister’s and mine. My grandfather was in the Navy, which meant Mom went to a lot of different schools over the course of growing up.  Contrasting to that, my sister and I lived in…

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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.

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