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…
A Marriage Blessed – A Tarot and Runic Expression
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Well, this witch and her dragon consort, i.e. the mother and father of the groom, couldn’t be happier for our son and his new wife. The wedding was lovely, the food was outstanding, and the fire dancers were amazing!…
Runecasting: Journey of Partnership
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The runes, like Tarot, are divided into three groups, referred to as Aetts. They essentially divide our journey in physical form into three groups comprised of eight runes each. The first Aett attributed to Freya, centers on our focus…
Women of Strength: A Mother-in-Law Blessed
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. My oldest son is getting married in a few days. I wasn’t able to attend my youngest son’s wedding. It was an impromptu affair, with only two weeks notice. Unfortunately, I had surgery planned the day before and couldn’t make…
Witch’s Tarot Spread: Emotional Beginnings and Human Design
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I was drawing the same cards with the Morgan-Greer deck I was using this morning, so I switched to The Witch’s Tarot. A deck created by Ellen Dugan, it’s witchy, it resonates, and I love it. I haven’t worked…
How Real Do We Want To Make It?
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. This always seems to happen. I’ll be struggling with a missing piece of a puzzle so to speak, and then I’m suddenly inundated with the answer. It comes in all forms, while on my daily walk, online in articles I…
Today’s Thoth Influences – Remembrance of the Goddess Within
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Aleister Crowley has an interesting take on tarot, albeit sometimes more negative in his interpretations than I prefer. His alliance with Lady Frieda Harris brought movement and energy to the Tarot cards that she designed. I’ve read excerpts from their…
We Forget To Create
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It really is about each one of us. Really, it is. It’s about how each of us sees this collective creation we call life in physical bodies. Because we interact with each other and the world at large, we forget…