The rune I received (literally written over my eye) back when I fell on my head at a Norse Pagan festival two years ago, was a bindrune. It can be seen as a combination of the runes Algis (representing antlers) and Tyr (an arrow) or Algis in two directions, which are the symbols of life […]
Odin’s Ordeal Part 3 – The Hieros Gamos Read More »
Its that time of year, when bright lights, greenery and gifts signal the Winter Solstice. We religious Pagans get a pass on having to go to endless Christmas festivities this year, and may be at home for Solstice, with only our closest people, for the first time in ages. I could write a bright and
Solstice Magic – The Year of the Crone Read More »
I have come to accept the fact that I am entering the Crone part of my life, and I’m in the process of figuring out what it means. In my faith, Crone is one of the categories of Goddess, a type of Goddess both honoured and feared, like the women who embody her. I’m not
What do you know? The Crone Read More »
Raising Energy Makes a Ceremony or Spell Effective I have been to a lot of Pagan rituals over the years. In my not very humble opinion, an important difference between an effective ritual and a stale one, in addition to sincere, embodied faith by those doing the invoking, is the raising of energy. What is
Dancing for Raising Energy for Magick Read More »
Magic is how we begin
Designing a Love spell that works Read More »
Empty Spaces, Waiting The unemployment rate in Canada was 9 % in September of this year of our transformation, 2020. It had been 10.5% in the previous month and even higher in the months previously. About one out of every 10 working age people in Canada is not currently working for money. I am certain
Filling the Empty Spaces – Envisioning Read More »
I realize that it’s 2020 and that the word unprecedented has been used so much this year that it would be completely cliche, if it were not for the fact that it is so manifestly appropriate. So you won’t be surprized that something unprecedented has happened to me. What is surprising, in the context of
Wholeness – the spiritual challenge of things going well Read More »
Many years ago I read a book called “The Fifth Sacred Thing” by Starhawk, a Wiccan priestess and author, and cofounder of the Reclaiming Tradition, a progressive tradition of Wicca. In her book, which was a dystopian / utopian novel, one of the characters talks about the concept of The Good Reality – La Huerba
Everything is working out in the best possible way Read More »
I am on a committee (called a guild) at a mainline Christian church. I have been working alongside members of that church on a shared goal – the maintenance of an open to all walking meditation space that has been important to me. The space contains a labyrinth which I have walked weekly on average
Interreligious Work as a Pagan Priestess Read More »
“The Goddess is always with you”, she said. It wasn’t a polite blessing, more a statement of fact. Rosalind had been my best friend and unrequited crush for ten years, and I was leaving town.
She was, and probably still is, a gifted mystic, and was the first person to touch me with energy in her hands. It’s a big part of why I fell in love with her. That larger than the world feeling of love when the energy is flowing with touch is what I think of, what I feel, when I experience love, still.
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