Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I like blending things. Today I infused plantain, chamomile, lavender, calendula and thyme into some witch hazel. It will make a nice skin spray when it’s finished. Usually I put the infusions in a dark place such as…
Love, Tears and a Whole Bunch of Freedom
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Lots of things have happened in the last few weeks that make this liberal witch’s heart both proud and broken. On the proud side, SCOTUS effectively legalized same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Love won. Another proud moment:…
Three Days Until Cannabis Is Legal In Oregon
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Will there ever be a day where we make something legal and then NOT craft laws around it that can throw our asses in jail, lose our jobs, housing, etc. if we, you know, use it legally? Cannabis will be…
Runecast: Transformation
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Nonphysical energy on the vertical axis blends with the expression of physical form on the horizontal axis. In the center sits Hagalaz, the rune of transformation, protection, shamanic passage and hedgeriding. Hagalaz is the rune of the witch. Destruction…
Blessed Be the Hierophant Within
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Sometimes I pull such cool cards that I can’t believe it. Beginning with The Tower, Death and the 6 of Disks, change for the better is in order. The 9 of Cups and the 2 of Swords bring peace…
Indifference
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s a tough thing, indifference. To matter not. To have no effect. The reality is, it’s impossible to have no effect in the world, despite the efforts of others to convince you otherwise. Whether it’s on a personal scale, or…
Our Health is More Important than Prohibition
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s not easy sometimes, giving up what you believe to be true, particularly when it’s illegal federally and in most states. We fear for our children’s safety, or losing a job, housing, or our parental rights via arrest or incarceration,…
Runecasting: New Bee-ginnings
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love fun journals, especially small ones. The runecast sits atop my rune book where I keep all my notes about each rune, bind runes I’ve created and so forth. It’s my go to book for interpretation as well..Crone…
A Blend of Thoth and Odin
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Initially this began as a landscape spread with my Thoth deck. But when I drew The Hanged Man, I decided to expand the casting to include runes. The Hanged Man depicts Odin, hanging upside down on the World Tree. During…
The Space Within
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I don’t know why directionality is important to me, but it is. The same is true of point of origin. Given that directionality follows point of origin, I suppose it makes sense. I wrote something about shielding a while back where…
Full Hawthorn Moon Runecasting: Flowing Enlightenment
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love the Hawthorn tree. Widely known for its association with faeries and witches, it grows everywhere on my property, originating at my husband’s childhood home. Once planted, they come up everywhere, blooming every Spring. Hawthorn may be used to…
Runecasting – True Destiny
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I like to draw things out. I find it helpful to see patterns when thinking about energy flow. Various katas I created for my Brown and Black Belt tests were both written and drawn out over most of the mirrors…
Our Vote Matters..Protect the OMMP
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. So the listening tour is over and now the real work begins. Except that Oregon is now beginning to look as confused as Washington State. Although measures were taken to protect the OMMP, legislators on the other side of the…
It’s Within You Now
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Perspective matters. It drives everything we think, do and say. If your perspective begins with your physical presence in the world, then it begins in subjectivity. Everything is open to interpretation. But we’re not only our physical presence in the…
The Spell of the Runes
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love knot magick. But doing a dark moon ritual during the 3am hour with only one candle lit, and forgetting to have a cord on the altar, I decided to make do with runes. Knots one through four are…