Greetings to Spring! After the wild ride many have had in the last few weeks, a new beginning would be welcome! Of course, the year is always a continuous loop, one season feeding into the next, the ups and downs of the planets are often on a different track from the solar. Let me tell …
Many pagan practitioners have sacred places where they connect with the divine. It might be an ancient sacred site, a special spot in nature, or even a covenstead. But the reality is that for most of us, the majority of our magickal working and worship occurs in our homes. As Azrael Arynn K shares in …
Lupercalia: goat skins, kink, and fertility. The snowdrops are up. That’s how I know it’s February. With February comes the Feast of Lupercalia or its mild, newer religious overlay. As much as I love chocolate, I get a sweet giggle out of the old ways. Besides, they’re not mutually exclusive by any means. As the …
When I started my journey thirty years ago, it was the Spring that was standing at that gateway. It was the spring that first showed me the beauty of the Divine and the Feminine rolled into one beautiful flower basket. Through no fault of their own, the first magic works I saw were all performed …
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 …
Songs and Chants for Clearing Sacred Spaces Space Clearings and Home Blessings are essential tools for creating safe and powerful containers for Ritual, Healing, and Magick. We all have certain spaces where we spend most of our time. Whether it be our bedrooms, cars, our workspaces, or even our heart space; adding songs and chants, rhythm and melody …
If you have been listening to the Magic Mess on KZUM for any length of time, you are probably familiar with our Sabbat Ritual Soundtrack series. On the Sunday closest to the Sabbat, we present to you a ritual soundtrack that can be used for a solitary or group ritual. It is presented in such …
In the first installment of this series, I spoke about how working with the dark goddess nurtures us. We pass into the shadow and it is there that we learn about ourselves in a deep way. We take what we have learned with us, as we step into the light again, transformed. Go ahead and …
One of the things that brings ritual powerfully alive for me is the combination of symbol and song. The melody of a song pitched just right can create a powerful opening to the Otherworld. And the imagery we choose for the lyrics can guide us to where we are going. Symbol and Song As magic …
I have written a lot of music over the years about the seasons, how I see them and how they make me feel, both instrumental acoustic guitar compositions and vocal songs too. I am sharing 3 of those songs with you now: Moonlight on Snow Covered Branches, Holly and the Oak and The Light of …
