Carole Crowwomyn’s well-crafted songs have appeared on all of the Crow Women albums. Her songs Let’s Go Down and We Won’t Sleep Tonight were recorded live at Covenant of the Goddess’s Merrymeet and can be heard on our album Crow Goddess.
Our second album, Crow Magic includes four of her songs: Calling the Elements, Magurkh, Epona and We Are Keepers.
Our third album Seasons features three new songs: Beltane Spirits, We Are the Witches and Warrior Woman. One of her paintings is the cover art for the album.
Carole loves words and living in the country. She makes her home in Bayfield, Colorado.
Carole’s blog posts:
Reproductive Freedom
The problem with letting people have rights is that they get used to them and react badly when you come back to take those rights away. I’m talking of course about the June 24 Supreme Court decision that takes away women’s Constitutional right to control their own reproductive functions. In...
Imbolc menu and memories
The days are getting longer. Depending on where you live, the first little green shoots might be poking up. It’s time to celebrate Imbolc! I’m musing about the many Imbolcs our coven has celebrated, in many different conditions. They are priestessed by the out-going Maiden, Mother, and Crone priestesses. (I...
Faces of Hekate
I love the lead-up to Samhain. I can dress as witchy as I want and fit right in with the Muggles celebrating Halloween. As Jon mentioned in his astrololgy post last week, even though most people celebrate Samhain and Halloween on October 31, the actual cross-quarter day is November 6...
Collage Ritual
You are responsible for a fast approaching ritual. (And blog post!) It’s not close to one of the big seasonal observances. It’s not close to the Full Moon or Dark of the Moon. What’re ya gonna do?? Something not related to any of those. I recently priestessed a ritual where...
Snowtane
Beltane is joyful. Beltane is colorful. Beltane is sexy. Sometimes Beltane is challenging. Sometimes, Beltane is…Snowtane. For the second year in a row, the Beltane Southwest festival near Albuquerque will be virtual because of continuing COVID concerns. But I can look back to the in-person celebrations. It’s an occasion...
Meet the Crowimmyn
This website and blog features the music of our pagan choir, the Crow Women. The band performs in concerts, presents workshops at pagan events, and has put out three albums. But, before there was the band, there was the coven. Our magical sisterhood continues on, in parallel with our public...
Thanksgiving with Hestia
Hestia is one of those goddesses that doesn’t get a lot of attention. But as a goddess of hearth and home, we’re coming into her season of Thanksgiving and then the December seasonal celebrations as we hunker down in the dark time of year (in the Northern Hemisphere). COVID gives...
Witches at the County Fair
Witches at the county faireat hotdogs and cotton candy.They ride the merry-go-round.They admire the sheep, goats, pigs,the rabbits and chickens,and especially the black cats –long hairs, short hairs,gold eyes and green eyes,and a couple with one of each. They ride the ferris wheel, laughing,holding tight to their pointy hats.They sample...
A Lammas Corn Husk Dolly
Wow! It’s already more than a month past the Summer Solstice and it’s apparent the days are getting shorter. We are at Lammas, celebrating the first harvests, the bounty that follows the fertility of Oestara and Beltane. This is a perfect time to make a corn husk dolly to celebrate...
Keepers of the Earth Ritual
In our gratitude to Mother Earth, we are called to be Keepers of the the Earth. We honor her. In this earth ritual we celebrate her glorious green growing plants. This earth ritual could be done at any time, inside or outside, solitary or in a small group. In these...
Calling the Element of Water: A Ritual
Life blood, pour from clouds to Earth belowFlash flood, won’t be denied, cleanse me, relentless flowShape me, make me, carry me, deep within myself,The shadow place I will face, what I need to know. from Calling the Elements, by Carole McWilliams, on our album Crow Magic This is the last...
Calling the Element of Fire: A Ritual
Fire flare, rising in the sky your fearsome glow, Deep down, from Pele’s womb, pushing from below, Toast me, burn me, consume me, the catalyst For Phoenix flight, light the night, let your power grow. from Calling the Elements, by Carole McWilliams, on our album Crow Magic This post is...
Calling the Element of Air: A Ritual
Bright sky, eagles take to fly, east wind blowsSun rise, far seeing eyes, blessed sight to knowthe path, the song, forever new, like the dawn, goes on and on calling me, shows the way to go. Calling the Elements, by Carole McWilliams, on our album Crow Magic This post continues...
Filking: Build a Pagan Yule Carol
The Crow Women songs that we put out for the world are original words and music, except for some of my songs. There are a lot of really nice melodies out there, traditional folk songs and old time Christian hymns, that cry for better or at least different words. Pagan...
Calling the Element of Earth: A Ritual
Deep down, deep into the earth my roots goDraw up Earth Mother power, she will help me growRise up, fill me, give me life, strengthen meA mighty tree, nourishing power from below from Calling the Elements by Carole McWilliams Indigenous people around the world have honored the Earth Mother for...
Poking Fun at Witch Stereotypes
I’ve always been leery about religious or spiritual types who are unwilling to occasionally poke fun at their own beliefs and practices. As Witches/Wiccans, we have a lot of stereotypes to satirize, thanks to Halloween, such as the old hag with green skin and a big wart on her long...
Beltane Spirits Come!
I wrote the first couple of verses of Beltane Spirits Come to Us several years ago. Actually, they were what are now the last two verses. Sometimes I’ll start on a song and get a couple verses, then it sits for months until I get motivated to write more verses...
I Am Warrior Woman
I wrote Warrior Woman in January 2017 to go with a women’s empowerment ritual that I would priestess, part of my emotional response to the pending inauguration of Donald Trump as president. As it turned out, the huge Women’s March in Washington D.C. and many other places the day after...
Cover Art for our Next Album
I have a small drawer where I keep Crow Women-related papers and other items. In early 2018, it was getting way too full and needed to be cleaned out. There were a lot of song words that I already had multiple copies of. So most of those went to recycling...