What are your musical memories of childhood? I hope you have many good ones – I know I do! My early years were filled with wonderful music from all over the world. When my grandparents emigrated from Austria in 1906, they brought cylinders with recordings of their favorite bands plus some tracks that were recorded …
Can you hear it? This is the perfect time of year to listen to the Song of Deep Magic that exists all around us. It is there every moment, swirling and lifting, creating and dancing. It has been there from the beginning of Time. It is a mighty Song! It holds all the Beauty of …
This is the final installment of Ginger Ackley’s series on the Elements. She has guided us through pagan music and magic for air, fire, water and earth, and now completes the cycle with this post about spirit. “Now that all the Elements have been gathered and are dancing in our Magickal Musickal Circle, it’s time …
When you are in need of a Mother’s love, just look down at your feet. When you call Her, She comes! Every day, our feet are stuck to Her as She spins in the cosmos. From this connection to Her, we have everything we need to live. All the other Elements dance with us because …
I am such a water baby! It’s the Element I feel closest to. From my earliest days, my poor mother always had quite a challenge getting me out of or away from water! Since we had a lovely creek in the back of our home – and being a Pisces, the word “challenge” may be …
It was a dark and stormy night… Visualize a writer… a composer… an artist… They sat, staring at the blank space in front of them. They needed the right words to help people understand how deeply they connected with the natural world. They wanted their readers to know how vital they were in the natural …
Allow me to introduce you to a good friend of mine. She is a Sylph, an Elemental of the Air. (She usually seems feminine to me but I know that can change in the space of a breath!) I believe the Sylphs were the first Elementals I actually met – and we have had such …
Frequently, musicians are confronted with the question, “What’s your process?” For a Pagan musician, that process is often tied to our spirituality. Instead of sitting down to write a song, and then work out the melody and chording, Spirit taps us on the shoulder and starts whisper-singing a new piece in our ear! It had …
Do you believe that lovers and partners are meant to find each other? Once upon a time, back in 2006, I was on my way to the airport with a friend. We were running a little late but we were both excited about the adventure that lay before us. That was when the Lady decided …
You’d think that we humans would be used to it, this dark time of Winter. It happens every year, with greater intensity the farther north you live. It is almost a ritual in my own home to remark on how dark it is and how early the darkness comes, how the light of the morning …
