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The Faeries of Winter For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the month of December is chilly and cold, if not downright frozen and filled with ice and snow.  Yuletide and the Winter Solstice is usually not a time when most people are thinking of the fae, yet even on the longest night of the year, they are still all around us, carrying out their ancient duties. It is easy to see Jack Frost hard at work, creating delicate crystalline patterns on windows and biting exposed noses and fingertips.  A true winter faerie seen at no other time, he travels between the hemispheres on the back of the chilliest…

The Cauldron of Memory By Raven Grimassi Once again Raven Grimassi has gifted us his readers with another enlightening and inspirational exhibition into the realm of learning how to retrieve our ancestral memory who we are and from where we come by guiding his readers through a powerfully effective arrangement of creative visualization, meditation, magickal techniques and path workings for the three inner levels of our person abundance, enlightenment and regeneration. The Cauldron of Memory is based on the up and coming Science of Morphogenesis and the assumption that ancestral memories are stored deep within our DNA as a source of energy. ~ Michele Burke, Pagan Pages.org (2009)

Most of us are familiar with the concept of Good and Evil. Indeed a few religions adhere to this type of dualism. This philosophy has captured not only our imaginations in art and other mediums, it has dictated how we live, how we view the world and how we view each other. Is the Universe really comprised of “Good and Evil”? Of Karma or the Three Fold Law? In Nature there is survival and there is death. How do we view this ever changing scene of survival? Is the lion “evil” as it  kills the baby antelope? Is the antelope good? Lions have been known to attack people. Antelope, well…

with ReikiAwakening.com’s Alice Langholt This month’s column is on the benefits of Reiki for kids, teens and pets. Reiki healing is natural and helps with balance. Balance covers many areas, including physical, emotional and spiritual. Reiki for physical balance strengthens the immune system, releases pain, releases stress, and strengthens the body’s capacity to heal. Reiki healing for emotional balance removes blockages, adds positivity, relaxes and soothes, and gives a sense of well-being. Reiki healing for spiritual balance helps open and fine-tune the connection to one’s intuition. One may become open to receiving divine guidance, notice signs, and become aware of opportunities falling into place. These are some of the benefits…

Merry Yule and a wonderful winter season to you all. This time of year in the Northern Hemi we are preparing for the snow and the cold and the season of sleep for Mother Earth. This is the shortest day and longest night of the year. We welcome the rebirth of the Sun with feasting, dancing, music and festivities. Decorations include wreaths, boughs of holly, mistletoe, evergreens, and lots of lights. In the Southern Hemi you are settling into summer, on the longest day of the year, with the Sun at its highest point in the sky, Pagans rejoice in the Sun’s life-giving warmth and ability to make things grow.…

I hear the owl call The wind gathers a howl Cloaked in shadow I hear you I shall not lay I shall not stay I shall not give away What is mine Wrapped in serpants They Whispered blame And the night fell around In droplets of shadow and sound Those demons your friends Strike fear in the hearts of men And their creation of sin But I know you As I know the wind And the rain All that is sacred Turned to shame The Dark Moon shines Like fire and ice Those secrets and lies Hidden well in despise In each of us A sparkle of you In each…

*The Hedgewitch lives in the space between the Village and the Forest. Between the mundane and the magical. S/He lives with a foot in both worlds. This column is dedicated to the Hedgewitches of the planet earth. Holidays in the Hedge; What is the reason for the season, again??? I, personally, will use any occasion to celebrate. And although I wasn’t raised a pagan, discovering the 8 holy days or sabbats in the sacred Wheel of the Year delighted me! It never occurred to me, for one moment, not to celebrate the Christmas traditions of my youth in Christianity, as well. The blending of my old and new faith merely…

NOTE:  Parts of this article are quoted from or based on Blacksun’s yet-to-be published book, B e ALL! – The book of Pagan Spirituality, © 2007. Some people have problems with Paganism because we didn’t have anybody come down from a mountain with a couple of stone tablets and tell us what being bad really meant.  The charge is leveled that we don’t have any morality system.  Once that statement is made, it’s an easy jump to thinking we don’t have any morals.  But just because we didn’t have somebody write it on rocks doesn’t mean we don’t have a morality system.  We are, by and large, a very moral…

*Since some of the people in this particular story are, at the moment, still in their country’s service, all family names have been omitted at their request. It is one of the oddities of paranormal investigation in Russia that amazingly few hauntings or encounters with spirit entities spring directly from events surrounding what is known as the “Great Terror”. That is the time, extending roughly from 1926 to 1953, and varying in intensity, in which Josef Stalin and his various heads of state security, presided over the murder of thousands… tens of thousands… possibly hundreds of thousands… no one knows for sure… of the Russian people. Strangely, encounters with these…

Meandering… In the spirit of the holidays as well as our continued meandering through the past, I thought I would talk about the Samhain/Halloween holiday we all just experienced. This is a time where in our half of the hemisphere, the northern half, bits and pieces of the world are getting ready to sleep. It is also a time of year to remember and honor those we loved, who have passed on. Samhain is also considered the Celtic New Year. To show respect to the men and women who were accused of witchcraft and thus killed way back in the day, my family and I took a jaunt down to…