Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I recently read a somewhat bleak piece on life as an empath. Although empathic awareness can be overwhelming at times, even when we understand what we’re experiencing, it doesn’t have to ruin our lives. As if an empath is so emotionally…
What Women Remember
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Women know what it is to experience oppression. And although it sometimes seems as if younger women don’t fully grasp some of what older women have experienced, they’ve lived with their own share of this problem just the same. So…
Tempering the Extreme Within ~ Tarot for Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. We’re reluctant to temper the extreme within at times. Some of us live there, enjoying the exhilaration felt, reluctant to achieve the very balance we so desperately need. Temperance, the 5 of Cups, and the 8 of Wands comprise today’s…
Sunday Runecasting ~ Stillness, Transformation, and Magick
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Isa, Eihwaz, and Tiwaz comprise today’s runecasting with stillness, transformation, and strength as its focus. Each rune depicts a type of strength, internal, external, and transformative in nature. Elemental influences are from Water, Air and Fire, our emotional, intellectual, and catalytic…
The Enduring Cycle of Bees
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. We finally pulled the last honey super off the original hive and gave them a pollen cake and a candy board to help them through the winter. We had already done this for the Warre’ and the long hives. Temperatures…
Power and Knowing ~ Human Design Channels for 18 October 2016
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It’s been a while since I did a Human Design post, and I thought I would incorporate some I Ching cards into today’s transits. I like looking at channels that are either active in my natal bodygram, or result…
The Power of a Queen
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. A witch is drawn to places of power whether it be the mountains, the desert, or the ocean. We’re a curious bunch, and we notice all sorts of things when wandering about. One of the things we notice are rocks, particularly if…
In Love and Partnership With Others ~ Tarot for Sunday, 16 October 2016
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Severe weather accompanied this Full Moon in the Pacific Northwest. The Oregon coast sustained the most damage with two tornadoes touching down. We experienced high winds on the high desert but other than some debris, we fared far better…
When Assumptions Made Seek To Control Both The Message And The Survivor
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. It didn’t happen because she didn’t tell. The latest of the assumptions made by his surrogates is to suggest that sexual assault or harassment doesn’t happen if the survivor doesn’t tell. And yet, just this morning I listened to a…
The Gaslighting of America
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. In the last few days, we’ve been inundated with revelations of alleged sexual assault regarding our male candidate running for President. Some women in the media are referring to the denigration by that man of his accusers as gaslighting. They seem…
This Reasonable Woman’s Perspective
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I’ve always considered myself to be a reasonable woman. It used to be that I could listen to surrogates for the conservative party and perhaps disagree with something they said. I might even vehemently disagree, but a few years ago, when all…
Finding That Still Point
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Energy swirls into manifestation. Everything amounts to thought in motion. Some view that as a spiral, some a vortex, but however you view it, energy moves. The universe and all within it is a projection of collective thought or consciousness….
The Queen in Charge: Tarot for Sunday, 9 October 2016
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I love Court cards, particularly the Queens. Court cards either represent an individual or qualities thereof. For example, the Queen of Swords in the Thoth deck I’m using today depicts the Queen reclining on her crystalline throne surrounded…
As Garden Season Ends…
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The dome we put in was a complete success. The hugel beds which we also put in exceeded our expectations as everything we planted both inside and around the outside of the dome went crazy. I’ve frozen more beans…
Finding Inner Strength When You Have Nothing Left
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Oh my. Where do I begin? Donald Trump has an opinion about veterans who suffer from PTSD. They’re not strong¹ in his estimation. From Vice President Joe Biden on Trump’s comments: “Where in the hell is he from?” Biden asked at…