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Back Porch Herbal: Horehound
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I remember as a child laughing hysterically at the name horehound. My mother had brought home some horehound candy and it was wonderful. So when we moved to Central Oregon and found that our new home had some growing down…
As Life Unfolds..A Runecasting
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I like elemental influences and using a pentagram spread is wonderful to look at the interaction between the runes themselves and the elemental position they occupy. Looking over the runecasting, it appears that partnership and new beginnings are what…
Back Porch Herbal: Horsetail and White Willow Bark
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love wildcrafting herbs. Not all plants that grow in the valley grow on the high desert of Central Oregon. Nettle, chickweed are two that I typically have to purchase, although I found some nettle growing in a pot…
Why not Hillary?
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Look..I like Hillary. Yes, I wish she were more socialist like Bernie and more ebullient like Liz, but honestly, every time I hear Andrew Sullivan bash her, the more I want her for President. And I love Sully. I do….
The Thing About Witches
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s that time of the year again where witches are portrayed as all things wicked and evil. We used to be revered, invited into peoples’ homes for food and conversation. Sometimes we even would share some divination as well..or…
A Back Porch Herbal..my journal of healing
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’ve come to believe that everything I need to be healthy can be found on my property, either because I’ve planted it, or because it happens to grow here. Juniper, cottonwood, willow and hawthorn trees are in abundance….
Solitary Wicce
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s not that I don’t like groups or anything, but I began my life as a witch, or wicce, as we were called in old Europe in solitary fashion. I was eight years old, and without a built in coven in my…
Energy Work
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. My first real job after college was as a work activities counselor in a sheltered workshop. It was interesting, but not really what I wanted to do. From there, I went to work as a psychiatric aide at a…
Dark Moon Reflections
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I prefer the dark of the moon to it’s fuller expression. Banishing negative energies, beginning anew, what’s not to love? For me, it’s a way to anchor myself to my life in a more productive way. I evidently…
Stillness and the Journey We Take
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. While Black Moon Lilith is in play, I thought I’d use my poplar runes to see what our focus should be. I made this set from some poplar trees that I planted the day my mother left her physical…
Stepping Aside
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’ve spent a large part of my life existing in the negative energy of others. Most of the time I had no choice in the matter. It was an incredible training ground for an empath, but difficult nonetheless. A witch…
Take the Risk
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s risky for a woman who begins to live her truth. Not everyone in your life understands the change in you; not everyone will get on board. Some will even sabotage your efforts, your voice, your inner power. No one seems…
Runecasting: Pentagram Spread
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love this set of opalite runes. Opal is my birthstone, and these are so delicate and feminine and feel wonderful in my hands. I like the pentagram spread for elemental influences. From the top, Kenaz sits in the…
The Self-Possessed
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The self-possessed individual. We see it expressed in society as entitlement, as the customer is always right. The I becomes more important than the we and it all goes down hill from there. We’re all told to stand in…