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This is the first part in an ongoing experience: My children, spouse and I have been renting the house will currently reside in since July 1, 2008. We discovered that the two story dwelling was built around 1883 by checking the New Bedford’s city assessors’ website. The house has three bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room, dining room and kitchen. We have an attic which is currently full of our landlady’s things that she left behind and a basement which accommodates the boiler, hot water heater and a washer and drier. Off the kitchen we have a deck which leads to a small backyard where we often hold Esbat and…

Are you cyclically confused? In a ceremonial quandary? Completely clueless? Wonder no more. *Ask Your Mama™ The What, When, Where, Why, How, and Who of Spirituality  & Ceremony by ©Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman A Question of Path Finding Dear Mama Donna, I want to be able to walk my own path, but I don’t know where I am going.  I am wandering around without a map and that scares me. I feel like I am lost in space. How do I know my place in the universe? Drifting in New Jersey Dear Drifting, As we begin to pay attention to the inner process of our spiritual journey, we start…

Someone once asked me what a typical day was like for a pagan. I hope they weren’t expecting a one sentence response. It humored me how that question could be asked as if all pagans share a “typical” type day. I recall laughing out loud and walking away. Keeping in mind the type of person that was asking me this question, I felt it was better to attempt answering their question once they opened their mind a bit more and realized there were far better questions they could be asking.I can say the same thing on behalf of parents who homeschool their children. Once someone knows you homeschool, a few of…

To Life I was putting my son to bed earlier this evening when he said, in a smaller voice than the one he’d been using moments ago, “Mom, can I tell you something?  I don’t want to die.” He is seven.  He thinks about these things sometimes, usually at bedtime, when there are no distractions.  Some nights he will dwell on all sorts of thoughts that are scary to a seven-year-old, and occasionally this brings him out of his room and down the stairs to where my husband and I are.  Thoughts, when you are seven, are not so scary when you are surrounded by loving parents and bright overhead…

Valentines Day is what I have decided to write about this month, as I know so many others will be focused on Imbolg. But Valentines Day plays a very large part in our lives and the lives of others, no matter the religion. Everyone loves and most everyone likes to celebrate that love.. Hopefully everyday but almost always on this very special day. There are different ideas as to where or how the celebration of Valentine’s Day began. The Roman’s celebrated a festival called Lupercalia on February 15, where young men held a lottery to decide which girl would be theirs and honored their God Lupercalia. This is one idea.…

Merry Meet & Blessed Imbolc to everyone.  I hope that everyone has been doing well in the past month.  At this time, I will address the questions and concerns from last’s month’s column. Alyssa writes: I feel rather odd. I know much about Wicca, and about my path. But it seems I know nearly nothing about Indigo children, and Crystal children. I am empathic myself, and that too, I have nearly no control over. I seem to hold everyone’s negative energy while they go about their lives happily. Perhaps you could explain this a bit more to me? Alyssa, I felt that way as well for the majority of my…

‘Pity me not the waning of the moon, Or that the ebbing tide goes out to sea, Or that a man’s desire is hushed so soon, And you no longer look with love on me. ‘ -Edna St. Vincent Millay February Moon Phases Full Moon: Feb 28  8:38 am Full moons occur from fourteen to seventeen-and-a-half days after the new moon. Full moons are prime time for rituals for prophecy, protection, divination. Any workings that needs extra power, such as help finding a new job or healing for serious conditions, can be done now. Also, full moons aide work for love, knowledge, legal undertakings, money, divination, and dreams. It is…

Merry Meet Readers,  We hope you had a wonderful and safe Yule and a Happy New Year. THIS MONTHS FEATURES January’s Moon Report, for all your monthly moon needs you can always check in with PaganPages for the phases and more throughout the month! Many New Columns like Wicca 101 teaching us this month about the Tools of the Craft. Let’s Spell it Out has a new spell incorporating Ganesh This month the new Season’s of the Witch is out and our own Michele Burke has a review of it.  Get your copies while you can!! Monthly Horoscope Capricorn 2010 Horoscope (22 Dec – 21 January) Capricorns are very serious…

Who is a High Priestess? Who is a high priestess? The literal answer is that she is someone is has received at least a third degree in a specific Pagan/Wiccan tradition and is the leader of a coven.  This definition is a brief and generic answer, because like most things in life there are gray areas. Someone can attend one public Pagan festival and have multiple women tell them they are a high priestess. Most likely each one of those “high priestesses” has a different definition of what that title means and they probably obtained their high priestess status differently as well. Is someone a high priestess just because she…

Once again Victoria David Danann has proven she will not be out done. Never have I had the ethereal pleasure that the Seasons of the Witch 2010 Daily gives. Form the moment I opened the planner till the time I laid it down a feeling of electricity resonated from deep within the recesses of my very being. Beautiful artwork, Moon phases, and plenty of room to keep track of important events throughout the months. Now it may seem that I am repeating myself, but it bears repeating; not only is the artwork beautiful each Goddess practically emanates from the page. So if you do only one thing for yourself this…