Warming Autumn Tonic You will need a tablespoon of each of the following spices… Cinnamon, Clove, Nutmeg, and Corriander. Take the spices and grind them to a fine powder in either a mortar and pestal or a coffee grinder. Heat about ½ gallon of apple juice or cider, on low until it is warm, (if you have your own apples and can make your own juice or cider this would be even more wonderful, but store bought works).  Add the spices and stir until well mixed.  Enjoy! Madame Mora’s herbal This class is designed to show the practical application of herbs to assist with everyday needs.  The lessons printed will…

Start Fresh Ritual Samhain is among many things a perfect time to commune with your ancestors, your spirits animals, any deities that you keep close to your spirit. The veil between the worlds is the thinnest on Samhain. Being that it’s the Celtic New Year one of my favorite things to do around this time is a working to help remove obstacles in my path, it’s similar to new year resolutions, but none the less fun! I’ve adapted this ritual to include one of my Patron Deities: Ganesh. Lore: Ganesh became lord of all existing beings after winning a contest against his brother Kartikay. When given the task to race…

SIF GODDESS OF GRAIN AND GOLD With hair like the golden wheat fields of earth, Norse Goddess Sif is known for her vibrant locks and motherly attitude towards everything.  She tends to the beings and goods of the earth, making her a harvest Goddess.  Some believe that her hair symbolized golden, growing fields.  Others believe that she was also was seen as a swan, and could be seen flying in between worlds. With all this beauty and enticement, naturally this women would have many love relationships.  Her main and most talked about marriage was with the thunder God, known as Thor.  Together they had a daughter and two sons, who…

Be Your Own herbal Expert Part 4 herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors used – and our neighbors around the world still use – plant medicines for healing and health maintenance. It’s easy. You can do it too. In your first lessons, you learned how to “listen” to the messages of plant’s tastes, how to make effective water-based herbal remedies, and how to distinguish safe nourishing and tonifying herbs from the more dangerous stimulating and sedating herbs. In this lesson, you will learn how to how make herbal tinctures. You will make tinctures from fresh and dried roots as…

For Erin (12/8/69-9/18/11) Yes, I miss you, yes, I do, All the time – time that flew Away like a butterfly On a warm summer’s day As children in the neighborhood play. That demon monster it killed you You died before the time was true. Beautiful and gentle goddess, An Irish Rose who came and went A lovely lady – heaven sent. In middle school, in high school, Our young garden bloomed Cherished, cultivated and nurtured. Seeds joyfully sown year and again. My dear close friend. Taught others by her example. My pagan beliefs she did not trample Unjudged yet foreign to her own. I – a silent witness though…

Other Names: celtic ~ Summer’s End, pronounced “sow” (rhymes with now) “en” (Ireland), sow-een (Wales) – “mh” in the middle is a “w” sound – Greater Sabbat(High Holiday) – Fire Festival Oct 31-Nov 1(North Hemisphere) – Apr 30-May 1 – The Great Sabbat, Samhiunn, Samana, Samhuin, Sam-fuin, Samonios, Halloween, Hallomas, All Hallows Eve, All Saints/All Souls Day(Catholic), Day of the Dead (Mexican), Witches New Year, Trinoux Samonia, Celtic/ Druid New Year, Shadowfest (Strega), Martinmas or Old Hallowmas (Scotttish/Celtic) Lá Samhna (Modern Irish), Festival of the Dead, Feile Moingfinne (Snow Goddess), Hallowtide (Scottish Gaelis Dictionary), Feast of All Souls, Nos Galen-gae-of Night of the Winter Calends (Welsh), La Houney or Hollantide…

Since it’s the month of Halloween (Samhain), we are going to introduce a “Dragon” spell here for ya! ~ It’s a great time for a little protection magick anyway since tricksters of all kinds can be at play on that day, even during the month.  So property protection magick, car protection magick, etc., isn’t an unwise move for a witch!  Here’s an easy spell.  If you don’t have the Dragon Protection Oil that I sell in my store, you can make your own protection oil or use one that you have on hand.  Any herbs/flowers/resins that have energies associated with protection magick, can be used for this spell.  (Think Lavender,…

Once upon a moonlit night, I was awakened with a fright. A noise was heard beyond my door, A raven knocking…Nevermore? I stumble around full of fear, What is this sound that I hear? A ghoul, a burgler, a fool, a sprite? It is my dog, to my delight.

Going to the Negative We all carry an element of pain and we exist in a culture where attention is built on pain. This is from the array of pain killers avaibable to the amount of saturated self help systems available. However, this does not mean that having pain is natural or necessary. There are a number of different types of pain and today we are speaking about spiritual (ethereal) pain. This is the pain that finds its way into the physical and it becomes all consuming and eventually we find ourselves depending on it as though life could not be without it; or so we believe. I have noticed…

Samhain Traditions & Folklore. Its almost here, the best holiday of them all, in my opinion at least, I love Samhain (pron Sow in – for those unsure) I remember even as a small child Samhain was a celebration for me of people who has passed over, I am still unsure to this day where I gained that knowledge from considering my own parents are far from Pagan and really never spoken about religion or the history of the holiday, to me at least. I have, to this day, certain traditions that I will always carry out and pass down to my own children, should they wish to follow them…