Stepping Aside

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’ve loved growing and using herbs as long as I can remember. I used to treat my cats and sled dogs in Alaska with various berries and plants growing outside our home. Without formal training, I did what made sense…

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Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions.   Using Stephen D. Farmer’s Earth Magic Oracle cards, I cast a five element spread. Today is my birthday, so I wanted to look at elemental influences going forward. In position one, the Elemental Earth  position, I drew Green Man,…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions.   I love full moons. The energy is amazing. Add to that a lunar eclipse, and the energy intensifies. For me, a lunar eclipse represents alignment. Not only is it a physical alignment of the sun, earth and moon, it’s…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I really like Earth Magic Oracle cards. Created by Dr. Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D., they always give me something interesting to consider. Today, I chose The Cross spread, not really for guidance on any specific problem or issue, but more…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’ve been gardening all summer and yesterday, I celebrated Mabon by making and canning pasta and apple sauces. We’ve been drying apples and pears, as well as freezing corn, carrots, green beans, and zucchini for winter. I bought a new…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions.     I’ve been working with an elemental spread lately, both with Tarot and runes. I like viewing the runes in light of each element. When elemental energies combine in a balanced fashion, life flows smoothly. Relating the runes to…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s September 11th. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t remember where they were on that day. As I write, I’m watching news reports from that day. Tim Russert gave a report which brought tears. No one knew why this happened….

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions.   I love Esbat rituals more than anything else in the world. Well, not more than the month of October, and definitely not more than Samhain, but other than that, I love Esbat rituals because I love being outside at…

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Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. My sisters..we need to talk. A nine year old girl, with her family on vacation, went to a gun range in Arizona for some family fun. Or so they thought. Evidently, this gun range allows children her age to shoot…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. On this day, in 1980, I became a mother. I was twenty-two, a college graduate, and I had been married for over a year. We went to a midnight showing of Close Encounters and afterward, over a Fudge-ana (like a…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I was glad to see that Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson was put in charge in Ferguson to quell the anger. He did exactly the right thing. Marching with protesters, hugging people..it was such a blessing to see after…

Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. A couple of weeks ago, I published a post entitled When the Unthinkable Becomes the Norm. In it, I discussed gun control. Now we have a town in Missouri that has turned into a war zone. The First Amendment reads: AMENDMENT…