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  The Bad Witch’s Guide to Aromatherapy   I am a bad witch. There are a long list of reasons why I am a bad witch. Having been out of the broom closet for some considerable number of years I would on occasion get asked “but you’re a good witch though?” My response to that depending on the person asking but I found I started to say “yes, a very, very good witch” rather darkly as it usually got the point across.   I have a super charged sense of smell. You’d think spending my childhood on the farm would have ruined it but I think it made things like…

    We have the privilege of being alive in a time of paradigm shift. The world my own parents knew and took for granted has tilted on its axis in the four decades since I was a child. In many ways this is a wonderful thing: courtesy of the internet and social media we now all have access to a vast reservoir of information and inspiration. My own children laugh when I explain to them that in my childhood I needed to cycle to the local library if I needed information about any subject. For them it is all just one finger click away. They cannot comprehend a time…

  one day i take the train to the ocean. donovan is just bringing in his boat. his body is sweat shiny & glowing. donovan knows all about constellations.   donovan is just bringing in his boat. the sea air is salty & clean & fresh. donovan knows about constellations. he says the stars shine all day & all night.   the sea air is salt & clean & fresh. i think about everything he told me. he said the stars shine all day & all night. i swim until my teeth are chattering.   i dry myself off & put on lotion. one day i take the train to…

Celebrating the Old Ways in New Times November 2017 Bright Blessings! Many of you have already had your Sabbat celebrations, but some will wait until the weekend after the 31st of October to do so. I tend to lean that way, myself, and I will use it to do a second Samhain article this year! Last month’s article focused on the topic of fear, and this month will focus on the less mundane topics. On Medicine and Healing Before I get into the Pagany Sabbat aspect. I would like to say a small word about one of the biggest reason our ancient Pre Christian Pagan ancestors did seasonal celebrations. That…

“Your mind is potentially the most flexible part of you, much more so than even your body, emotions, or spirit.  The reason is that the primary quality of your mind is your imagination.  Developing your mental self means developing the power to focus your imagination in order to expand your awareness, increase your ability to learn more and faster, appreciate different points of view, notice the reactions of others more quickly so you can adapt to them more effectively, and include more patterns of behavior in your repertoire for coping with the unexpected, to name a few.”? *from: “Huna: Ancient Hawaiian Secrets for Modern Living” by Serge Kahili King  …

  Instant Tarot: Your Complete Guide to Reading the Cards by Monte Farber and Amy Zerner, published in 2017 by Weiser Books, Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC, Newburyport, MA 01950, soft cover, 259 pages. Instant Tarot is published as a paperback, with a color cover printed on typical soft-cover stock, measuring 8 ½ by 5 ½ inches. The interior pages consist of black and white card images and nicely-sized typeface printed on white paper. Instant Tarot is different from most of the how-to-read-the-Tarot books available to students and enthusiasts of the Tarot. This book uses a system for understanding and interpreting the cards in a traditional Tarot deck that is based on…

The Druid Year, Solstice/Equinox/Cross-Quarter Day Impulses, 15 moons, and Sacred Alphabet Twenty years ago, when I began my Celtic path, my inner druid guides suggested I make flower essences for all the sacred trees over the cycle of one year. And it was good advice, for I could feel the spirit of each tree through its particular 24-day moon, all 15 of them. And I was also guided to do simple ceremonies for the eight equinox/solstice and cross-quarter high holy days of the druid year. As the year went along, it was easy to feel the portals of spirit these days truly are. I was guided to draw the Ogham…

  that was the day we ate the fat fable. grandmother stuffed it with chopped leeks & herbs. made it savory with the usual platitudes. a thick rich moral gravy. later she told us the tale of our father as a little boy on the stone steps in albany. wrestling with angels. we always loved that one. laughter & tears. she could always spin a stirring story. once while walking she pointed to a house & told us of the family that had lived there. “they won the daily lotto,” she said. “millions of dollars. how far they fell.” the wheel of fortune. from heaven to hell.   *** About…

Adding a Spindle to the Wheel of the Year As I wrote this, I was finishing up work for the day to head home to get ready to celebrate my 5th wedding anniversary with a quiet dinner at one of our favourite fancy restaurants. Though my husband is not pagan, we did a handfasting with cords of orange, brown, green, and silver in a beautiful loft space gallery that used to be a piano factory. It was an overcast day that rained on and off, and we didn’t care, as long as we had each other and were surrounded by our friends and family. We bound ourselves to one another,…

        ______________________________________________________________________________ Cover art: The God & Goddess    By: Sondra Hefner of NautyCrow Studio I don’t always know where a painting will end up when I start. I wanted this one to express the balance I try to maintain in my life and hopefully also express some love. ______________________________________________________________________________     Welcome to the October/Samhain Issue of PaganPagesOrg.   This month we are fit to Burst with great Information, Spells, Book Reviews, and So Much More!  Including all the information you could possibly need for Samhain.  Here is a peek at what’s inside:     Samhain, for many on a Pagan path, is “the biggy”, the festival of…