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given to the Gods, she waits the fear inside a slow flame, burning her resolve. and then, suddenly, they are here the Grandmothers, old as Time, marking her face, ochre-striped, hanging about her neck the sacred band of amber, teeth and gold. they light the bowl of herbs and smoke, soft as silk, courses through the hut filling her head with dreams rising, she walks towards the setting sun, painted in blood-light, messenger of her people. an arrow, sent to the Gods.

Be Your Own herbal Expert Part 2 herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. Our ancestors knew how to use an enormous variety of plants for health and well-being. Our neighbors around the world continue to use local plants for healing and health maintenance, and you can too. In your first lesson, you learned how to “listen” to the messages of plant’s tastes. And you discovered that using plants in water bases (teas, infusions, vinegars, soups) – and as simples – allows you to experiment with and explore herbal medicine safely. In this lesson, we will learn how to make effective water-based…

CIRCE THE ENCHANTING SORCERESS CONNECTING WITH CIRCE If you have any questions about spells or ways of magic don’t hesitate to ask Circe, she is defiantly willing to help out her kindred.   Another way of honoring her is by honoring the Goddess within yourself.  I’m sure you’ve heard this a thousand times, but really there is one in there!  Trust your intuition like Circe always did, and that inner nudging to do certain things.  This especially goes towards magical workings as well.  If you feel that you need to tweak a ritual or spell in any way because it feels right to you, then by all means go a head,…

Well, hello. Nice to see you here. What I hope to accomplish with this blog: passing on about forty years’ worth of practice in the Craft of the Wise, AKA being a witch. Like most people, I’ve learned a few things, and messed up a few others before I finally Got It. I hope to share with you the ups, the downs, the occasional cosmic misfires, and the equally occasional cosmic successes, past, present, and future. Spellcraft, writing a novel, that wicked slavemaster called “personal evolution,” doing the dishes, and cleaning out the litter box: it’s all fair game. Along the way, I’ll tell you a few stories. I’ll see…

The Cleansed Connection As energetic beings a lot of what we do, what we feel, need, want and so forth are governed by electrical impulses we direct within ourselves. The purpose of which is to create energetic responses which provides us with a sensation or seemingly emotional response. This transaction that occurs on an unconscious and ethereal level impacts everything external to ourselves. We do this in milliseconds every day without ever stopping to think or even contemplate about this. It is something that simply happens. In addition to this is our ethereal self, the many layers (for the purpose of this article the context of ethereal is in terms…

Vampyre Sanguinumicon:  The Lexicon of the Living Vampire by  Father Sebastiaan © 2010  Weiser Books ISBN:  978-1578634804 Paperback        320 pages $24.95 (U.S.)x There has been a resurgence in the interest in vampires of late (witness the Twilight books/movies and “True Blood”, etc.), although it never really went away.  This book is for the Living Vampire – the one who seeks to live in glamour and ritual on a daily basis – not the “kid in a cape” who plays at being an immortal being. The first thing which struck me as I began reading this book was the  consistent use of jargon as a means of establishing the “difference” between…

The Art of Gratitude Gratitude is something I have always been brought up to show, my grandma was very adamant that her grandchildren would a) always show respect and b) would always have impeccable manners, two things in which she most certainly succeeded.  A trait which I have instilled in my little ones, another trait I adopted was gratitude, these days it comes in the form of a gratitude book, It’s a simple process in where on one page you give thanks for all the things you are thankful to already have in your life and on another page you are thankful for all the things you wish to manifest…

“Love Potion No. 10” This recipe is strictly for fun.  You will be using the “tea” you create to make a simple syrup, designed to put you, or, anyone who happens to swallow a teaspoon or 2, “in the mood.” You will need 2 tablespoons for each of the following herbs: rose (preferably the petals), honeysuckle flowers, spearmint leaves, jasmine flowers, and lavender. Bring 2 cups of water to a boil and remove it from the water.  Add herbs and steep for approximately 10 minutes, to allow the aphrodisiac qualities to be completely released in the water.  Strain the tea back into the pot and add 2 cups of sugar. …

Space – Not the Final Frontier Being a Military family, we are often sent to places we might not necessarily want to go, sometimes with not a lot of notice, our worldly belongings are packed up into boxes by men who sweep through the house like a whirlwind, they are then shunted into containers and shipped thousands of kilometres, to be unloaded by yet another set of removalists often into a house we may not even like.  A home, so recently vacated by another family doing the very same thing, it can feel like crawling into a stranger’s empty bed, while it is still warm from their bodies. No matter…

(Loo-nas-ah) Major Sabbat (High Holiday) – Fire Festival August 1, 2 Other Names: Lunasa (meaning August), Lughnasaad, Lughnasa Celtic),First Harvest, August Eve, Feast of Cardenas, Feast of Bread, Tailltean Games(Irish), Teltain Cornucopia (Strega), Ceresalia (Ancient Roman) Harvest Home, Thingtide (Teutonic), Lammas (Christian). Laa Luanys, Elembious, Festival of Green Corn (Native American) Animals and Mythical beings: Griffins, Basilisks, Roosters, Calves, Centaurs, Phoenix Gemstones: aventurine, citrine, peridot, sardonyx, yellow diamonds, citrine Incense and Oils: wood aloes, rose, rose hips, rosemary, chamomile, eucalyptus, safflower, corn, passionflower, frankincense, sandalwood Colors: red, orange, golden yellow, green, light brown, gold, bronze, gray Tools, Symbols, and Decorations: corn, cornucopias, red, yellow flowers, sheaves of grain (wheat, barley,…