Crackling leaves are burning Transformed from life to death The crow calls out relentlessly To those unseen and life withers In the blasting of its issue.   The Crone’s outstretched hand Pulls me tightly to her breast The air chills at her touch Long icy fingers tapping out The heart beat of life’s pulse within.   The solemn silence of darkness The pause of silent breath Power and strength drawn From the sinewy strands of time.   Quartered path of gravel and stone Flesh and blood Moonlight and stars The wellspring of Earth The light of the cosmos above.   I tremble within Her embrace Form giving way to the…

Victor H Anderson: An American Shaman Author: Cornelia Benavidez Publisher: Megalithica Books from Immanion Press Copywrite: 2017 Length: 308 pages     This book is a full transcript of interview tapes that the author had with Mr. Anderson and his wife, Cora. It also contains the family tree (ancestry) of Victor H Anderson on both his mother and father’s side. It also has the lineage of the Native American line in his heritage.   At times this book can be a bit confusing to read because in different questions about his legacy, Mr. Anderson does repeat himself and the Ms. Benavidez wrote it as he spoke it on the tapes of…

The Naked Goddess   (Last month’s cover of PaganPageOrg, Goddess by Angie Yelton At FalconFire Ceramics Studio)   The censoring of female Goddess bodies is apparently not a new thing. While Greek and Roman Gods had their genitals lovingly crafted, in all shapes, ages and sizes, there is no hint of a cleft on the white marble. It symbolises the Greek, then later Roman idea that women must (especially in public) be silent. While this silence of your vulvic voice is not new, taboo is always, always drawn from something powerful and sacred. At least to James Frazier.   Greece bronze-age culture seems to be the turning point from the Minoan, Egyptian…

Pumpkin Bread (Savoury) I love baking with yeast. It’s so organic. It’s literally alive. I prefer it for rituals and celebrations. I like how difficult, how much personality can seem to be infused, batch to batch, bread to bread! I do use fast acting easy yeast, BUT I also like to give them a little more love, a little more time than most yeast instructions say. There are really two part to this bread. One is the cultivation of the yeast, the backbone of the bread and the other is forming it into a loaf. You can, I suppose, use your bread maker but I think it misses the point.…

(Digital Downloadable Samhain Print & Samhain Gift Set available for purchase by Moonglow Magic Shop on Etsy)   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),…

Meet the Gods: Hades   (art by Samantha Sullivan)   Merry meet.   As the wheel turns to Samhain, it is natural turn to deities of the dark, of the underworld. This month we get to know Hades.   A god with a place that shares his name, Hades is thought to be the god of death – in the Greek pantheon, that was Thanatos. Rather, Hades invites all to join him in his kingdom, the underworld. Hades is not hell, it’s the place all who die go.   Wanting a bride, Hades is said to have asked Zeus for one of his daughters and was offered Persephone. On one…

Kindred Spirits of the Forest Glades      For years I’ve dreamed of doing a ceremony in gratitude to the fae folk who’ve been constant guides and helpers along my lifelong spirit path. Such a ritual would have to be held in a quiet forest glade, near the gurgling song of a river with an overhanging white oak. Standing stones would add a mystical touch, too. And it would need to be at sunset, that time of night when dusk deepens the forest and the wind drops to a whisper, when the sense of mystery just beyond the veils is strongest, the time between, when we can slip through small…

  the next person she met was death. on a white horse riding through a field of red flowers. the sun was just rising & she had nowhere to go anyway. his touch was cold but his smile warmed her entire soul. immediately her past faded away like it never happened. the floating world is not heaven. not hell or purgatory or one of the many places a soul could go to after dying. it was a beautiful world. a sorrowful world. she never wanted to leave. it was in fact a world made just for her. a world her brain designed. a pageantry of silk & silence. polite propriety.…

Review of Spiritual Wake’s Mystery Witch Box     (logo for Spiritual Wake)     Spiritual Wake is an Etsy shop that offers a Mystery Witch Box for $15.00 plus Etsy calculates exact shipping to your zip code. This box is not a reoccurring, monthly subscription, but rather a one time purchase. You pay a one time fee for 1 box. Each Mystery Witch Box contains different items, such as, spells, books, jewelry, herbs, and more. You will receive 4 or more items depending on the value of each item in every box.  Each box is unique and different.    PaganPagesOrg has received a Mystery Witch Box to review this…

  (image found at–http://maisonboheme.blogspot.com/2013/10/ghoulish-halloween-dinner-party.html  )   As the sacred night of Shadow-Fest, also called Samhain, Halloween, and All Hallows Eve, draws near I find myself being drawn closer to the Mighty Dead and my Ancestors. As the veil grows thinner across the lands, it becomes easier to connect with our beloved who dwell in the Lands of Shades and Shadows. Many Witches and Pagans hold festivities and rituals on this most holy of nights. One such ritual tradition is the sacred dinner called the Dumb Supper.   Once popular in parts of Ireland and Great Britain, the Dumb Supper is a meal eaten in silence with empty chairs and plates…