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GODDESS OF THE WISHING WELL We’ve all done it as a child.  Thrown pennies into a fountain while making a wish, little did we know, we were making an offering to a wonderful Celtic goddess.  Her name is Coventina, and the wishing well was made in her honor.  The main well or shrine dedicated to her is locate at Carrawburgh, on Hadrian’s Wall in Britain.  The wells represented the earths very essence and womb, where the Celtics believed Coventinas presence resided most. She also resides in all rivers, lakes, and streams.  Since she is a water goddess, she’s also great for inspiration and divination, all the aspects of the divine…

I’ve been interested in all type’s of crafting for quite a while, but what I’ve alway’s found the most enjoyable is anything to do with herbs.  Most people assume making bath salts is simply a matter of using Epsom or Sea salts, herbs, essential oil, and perhaps some color.  Actually the best bath salt recipe is equal amounts of Epsom salts, Sea salt, and Baking Soda.  Use a blender to grind the salts down to a fine consistency like the baking soda.  By using these 3 ingredients you’re actually accomplishing multiple objectives.  First baking soda softens the water, second Epsom Salts in and of themselves contain minerals and have a…

Creative Ways to Use Magickal Essential Oils Essential oils have been used for centuries in medicine and magick.  Scent is one of our most powerful senses: it can trigger long forgotten memories, change our moods, uplift us or depress us, and even have physical effects on our health and wellbeing. Essential oils are fairly easy to find and purchase at most health food stores or metaphysical shops.  When you are using them for magickal purposes, it is important to buy true essential oils derived from plants and resins, not synthetics or “fragrances” made from chemicals.  Synthetics carry no magickal properties whatsoever because they do not contain any of the actual…

The God Tyr Tyr is a Norse god of war. He is known to be the lawgiver of the gods and was the leader of the Norse Pantheon, until he stepped aside for his father, Odin. It is not known who his true mother is but there are mentions of it either being Friggo or an unnamed giant. This god of law and order is also one the 12 principal deities of Asgard. Tyr is excellent in all manners of justice, fair-play and right action. He is honourable, brave and inspires courage in others. A few things are named after Tyr, but the most prominent are the day Tuesday (Tiws…

I am surrounded by the night Dark and foreboding, crushing me, Tempting me to run, to break away Every whisper is a scream Pounding in my brain Every star is a pinpoint of pain Scattered across the sky like Shining reminders of the past Howls of wolves scream my rage Sending shivers through my spine An overwhelming urge to scream Cripples me, I cry out into the night Yet no one hears my screams My chest pounds, I break into a cold sweat I run like a madman, no direction No purpose except escape. Hear me! Help me! I stumble and fall Down into darkness, down into quiet Down into…

New Year Promises Although New Year’s for most Pagans this past year was celebrated on Samhain, the rest of the mundane world around us celebrated New Year’s on January 1, 2012. Can you believe it, it’s officially 2012 now! Most astrologers and metaphysical experts believe 2012 is going to be a year of change and major energetic shifts. I think 2012 is going to be an electrifying and exiting year for Pagans. I personally can’t wait to begin working on new goals and new projects. What new things does 2012 promise to bring into my life I wonder? I think 2012 is a year of limitless possibilities. While creating my…

Blessed Be The – What? I am a pagan woman living in the 21st century, doing 21st century stuff.  Living in a modern-ish  house, I wear jeans and sneakers; watch tv, drive a car and my BOS is not beautifully hand written on handmade paper in an ancient old book ( a little is) but the most it is on my computer, on printed pieces of paper – it is modern. There is a little part of me, ok so there is a big part of me who would love to turn back the clock and go back to live in an old cottage on a few acres of land…

Samhain I realize that it’s completely the wrong month for a halloween article…but in a way it isn’t. January is the start of the new year for many people. Moved up from April 1st which is now called April Fool’s day. In my family…we have two new years. We have our personal new year which is on Halloween. And then we have the actual New Year on January 1st..  For as long as I could remember…every halloween, my mother has said “Happy Halloween, Happy New Year.” I never understood it until I was older and actually started researching Halloween and the pagan religion. Being a 3rd generation Pagan…it’s been interesting…

Rebirth from Chaos In the Craft traditions I’ve learned, Samhain marks the point in the year when the Lady retires to the Summerland for the winter, the Wild Hunt ranges abroad, the Holly King becomes the hoary Lord of Misrule and presides over winter celebrations, and the World, that is, the local cosmos, starts to return to its underlying chaos.  In the Ogham Tree calendar, as reconstructed by Robert Graves in The White Goddess, most of November lies within the lunar month of the Reed, and has the tag from the Rune of Amergin that proclaims “I am a threatening noise of the sea.”  Ngetal, the Reed month, is succeeded…

Coincidence and magic The young boy loved camping, particularly the fire building parts.  Tonight they were deep in the woods, staying under the stars in tents with families from the circle.  The adults knew that he loved fire making and had asked him to tend the ritual bonfire.  All during the ritual he’d been seeing shadows coming and going from the edge of the circle.  The Old Gods seemed to be out tonight, but that wasn’t something he worried about.  That stuff was for his mom.  He just liked the camping.  The circle was just opened and he turned to go get some more wood for the fire.  There, staring…