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Kiva’s cd “Out of the Corner of the Eye” is their ninth recording since the bands birth in 1990.  The cd is a collaboration of songs based on fey folk and the world they dwell in.    The band, with talented guest and a specialized set of instruments (cello, guitar, flutes, didgeridoo, violin, bass, and mandolin) recreated a world many of us wondered about and wish we were actually living in.  With each song and story being told you can feel yourself being swept into the story as if Alice in Wonderland. While listening to the music and lyrics I am easily reminded of being back in the Renaissance perhaps of…

He sat across the narrow room from them as they ate their breakfast that morning.  An attractive woman with two children: a boy of around eight years and his younger sister, a wide-eyed and happy five- or six-year-old.  The mother was busy with her children but seemingly without the usual undertone of anxiety that he saw in so many young families these days.  The children also did not display the more common agitated behavior of youngsters who felt they had to compete for attention.  They showed all the enthusiasm and fearless engagement with life that he loved so much about children their ages.  He felt especially enchanted by the girl,…

Ingrid’s Yule Snow More of Monique’s artwork can be viewed at: http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=20904

Start the new year right with a new crossword puzzle (click here)!  This month’s theme is the goddesses of the world – how many do you know?

We have an exceptional issue for you this month. As a special Yule gift to you all, our special features this month include interviews with : Raymond Buckland Gail Woods Diana L. Paxson We know you will enjoy our gift to you and we hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday!!

As I sit here in the land of sand that sees no festivity yet boasts to be the origin of both Pagan and Christian histories of which the latter it is the birth place of Christ. I look around at the faces of the Soldiers here with me sitting in the same predicament so far from home and in a war zone. I plan my Yule festivities as I would whether I was home or here as you can never let depression set in or it would ruin you. But really, how can one be depressed if they look inward and see the same sun, the shortest day of the…

In the Realm of Magic For many of us who enjoy a good Harry Potter book or the fairy tales of childhood, there is a special word that draws us to the study of Wicca: magic.  That one mysterious word conjures up a euphoria of wonder and excitement that feels alien in comparison to our daily lives.  Suddenly, anything is possible, and we become more than mere mortals bracing against the tides of fate.  These are certainly the types of emotions the idea of magic can inspire, but daily we are told to keep such notions in the realm of fiction where they belong.  There is the world of reality…

Black Mass Bones for My Love Untitled Erin Martinez More of Erin’s artwork can be viewed at: http://artinblood.com/

Rainbows and birds Darkness fills the colors As the sky begins to clear I hear the birds And know the town is near I shall play my concertina With some luck I will eat tonight As the butterfly whispers Like the promise in the sky And the beauty that surrounds me On this bank I will someday see. Hold my hand And together we’ll walk Towards  life A promise.

The Ring of Brodgar – Orkney Islands “We cannot fully live without the treasury our ancestors have left us. Without the story – in which everyone living unborn, and dead participates – men are no more than ‘bits of paper blown on the cold wind” George MacKay Brown, Winter Tales 1995 Once again we journey to the island of Orkney for our final look at one of the most spectacular and well preserved prehistoric monuments in the British Isles, The Ring of Brodgar. This series of standing stones is not just a stone circle and henge but a focus for the other standing stones and many Neolithic and Bronze Age…