Dance is a somatic experience and community ritual. Dance is an art and a mating display. Dance is small private moments and exaggerated musical numbers. Dance is strict discipline and a child’s first movements to rhythmic sound. Dance is grounding and transcendental. Dance is cultural expression and reaches beyond language barriers. Dance is secular, spiritual, …
Well, what do you know, the Pagan Song blog is now 5 years old! Pagan Song: Music for your Magic started out as a band site for the Crow Women. We began publishing in February of 2019. At the end of the first year, I wrote a post reviewing what we had done in our …
February is always a very intense month for me. We’ve celebrated Imbolc and the Blessings of Brigid, and now we stare the long last remnants of winter in the face. The February sun shines with an intensity that always appears this time of year and I watch each morning as the rise comes earlier and …
Imbolg, a sacred time in the Celtic calendar, symbolizes the peak of winter. It is often acknowledged as the coldest time of the year, comparable to the early hours of the morning on a 24-hour clock. Just like how the night reaches its coldest point before dawn, Imbolg offers the chilliest part of winter. As …
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 …
SNIP! “Well, strictly speaking, from an evolutionary perspective, our only purpose in life is reproduction. Ok, you’ll feel a slight tug here. Three, two, *snip*” So said the guy who did my vasectomy when I was 28. I never wanted babies. They get in the way of sex in the kitchen. I also knew that …
Approaching your magical altar, you breathe deeply, you visualize the Goddess and your personal Deities, you light a candle to focus your spiritual workings, and you begin your devotions. You might bless this space with Water and Earth, you might sanctify with Fire and Air as you smudge. You might sing my song, Goddess Blessing, …
Songs That Save Our Lives Do you know those times when your heart is breaking, and then you hear a piece of music, and you feel your life has been saved? You were drowning, and then this melody, harmonic progression, lyrical phrasing, lifts you up and out, creates space around you where the crushing water …
Just last week, on Winter Solstice Eve, I started mixing my next album. This was the perfect time to start a new project that would take me from 2020 and lockdown to the end of one busy, magical year and into the next…. Now let me just start by saying that I have written a …
From the bright colours of the Autumnal Equinox to the tiny budding green of Imbolc, this is my favourite turning of Life’s Wheel. It is the time when most of our spiritual celebrations are set into days that are filled with change and chaos by Nature. The Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere marks the …
