Discovering my path I had just graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and moved to Orlando, FL in 1990 when I began hearing the voice of the Goddess speak to me in my dreams. First initiated only a year before into the Alexandrian craft, already the plans She had for me started …
Winter Solstice Sunrise is the first chant that I ever wrote before I wrote any songs. Sometime in 1981 (I was 19 or 20 years old) I started realizing that I could write music and not just reproduce it (I had been singing and playing music since I was a child) when I was asked …
Yule this year commences on December 21 at 2:48:12 PM, Mountain time. As you can see in the chart below, everything except the South Node is within an opposition and everything except Mars and the South Node is in the Top half of the chart, indicating that the energy of the season and the year …
Winter is here. Time for a mug of something warm and fireside stories in the dark of night. The art of stories and storytelling has become a successful way to help folk process their own stories. Especially when they are faerie tales. To hear of strange lands, great heroes and terrifying villains makes it easier …
In this, the Dark time of the year, I chose to write about something we all will face. As I age, I contemplate that day when Lady Death will stretch out Her hands to me. Not the skeletal hands of crude illustrations from the Middle Ages, but the warm, calloused, welcoming hands of an old …
ghost-writer We write and sing songs to celebrate, to express our connection to each other, our community, and the sacred. Music is a powerful means to express Spirit. There are as many methods to writing music as there are musicians: The whole piece may write itself; the lyrics may come first, or the tune; a kernel of …
I sat on the couch – five and a half months pregnant. My husband pointed at my belly and said, “I can’t do this. You are the strongest woman I know. You’ll be fine.” He walked out forever. And I spiraled swiftly and deeply into a depression that seemed to have no bottom. I stopped …
As I sit down to write this blog, I realize how very blessed I am to live in New England, where the shift to the Dark Time is so palpable. I can see the change in the trees’ blaze of colors. I can smell it on the wind and feel it in my bones. The …
Thank you for the invitation to share the background story of one of my songs. On this occasion, I have chosen Soul Journey written and created within my private stone fire circle on my land. As the lyrics convey “I lie in my nemeton circle serene, in a blanket of stillness and web of my …
As the Wheel of the Year turns away from the planetary balance of light and dark at the recent Equinox in September, and toward the upcoming seasonal extremes of the December Solstice (Midsummer in the Southern Hemisphere and Midwinter in the Northern), we find ourselves approaching a deeply magical point in the year. Traditionally celebrated …
