Reclaiming Isis Merry meet! Isis has not been a goddess with whom I have worked. I hadn’t felt particularly drawn to deities from the Egyptian pantheon, but hearing ISIS in the news has led me to think her name is being taken in vain. She is not the most frightening terrorist organization: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Isis is the Great Divine Mother of the Universe. She is the personification of femininity; she is the wife of a king and the mother of the god Horus. As such, she is the goddess of motherhood and children. She was the original madonna with child, later to become Mary and…

      I wrote this book as a response to over forty years of trawling through endless books on the occult, magic and mysticism. I am not saying that I did not learn a great deal from many of the authors, but, in some ways, they were also a distraction from this, now obvious, truth which was right under my nose. In the end, we must find our own personal path. No one who simply follows the spiritual path of another person will ever find their rightful place in the universe until they finally strike out on their own and discover their own, unique inner truths. Many of us…

Holiday sales    Merry meet. Just as you may have stocked up on witch hats and black napkins after Halloween to save for next Samhain, look among the post-Christmas sale items for things that will be at home next Yule, as well as for other sabbats and rituals. I have a black bear that sat on my altar for half a year while I did a ritual using bear medicine; it returns there from time to time. There’s a polar bear, too, that walks across my altar especially around my birthday – both as the representation of one of my animal guides and of a yearling polar bear, shot by…

New Year– New World For the past two years I have been consumed by the Witch Goddess Hekate. The journey of writing Her devotional was exhilarating. I learned so much about Hekate and those who are devoted to Her. She has been by my side through thick and thin, I could not ask for a better Goddess to be by my companion is this bewitching world. From out of the Shadows She has risen, shining Her holy light upon the world. Hekate is awakening many to Her mysteries, the Gates of Enchantment have been opened for those who wish to seek and move beyond this mundane world. A new dawn…

Spiralled Edges – Learning to Honour Yourself As we go through life, how often do we do things not because they honour who we are, but because we think it is what is expected of us? This year, things came together in such a way that I had the opportunity to spend Christmas and Boxing Day on my own. My younger children spent the holiday with their father, giving me the opportunity to choose for myself what I wanted to do, for me, over the holidays. I had options, plenty of friends and extended family who would have offered me a place to go so that I would not be…