The themes of dying and being reborn are universal around the world. Indeed, the very fact of the Solar cycle as it is, with shorter days changing to longer; moving from less to more light; the analogy of death and rebirth echoed through our existence, lead us to the marking of our times in between …
I have spent the past 20 years of my musical career in awe of the power that song and chant have to transform a singer, a group of singers, or an audience. I began writing, singing, and performing pagan spiritual song and chant in 2001. The act of integrating a love of singing with my …
I am a musician with a mission statement: To make people feel something, and to focus on hope, even within the saddest songs. How do you write of joy when you do not feel it yourself? How do you deal with writer’s block and stagnancy? How do you cease treading that killing loop that says …
Gather your tools and symbols of magic, and journey with me into a spell of cleansing, consecrating and charging. As Witches and Pagans, we circle with our covens and with the Goddess, while our Magical Tools focus and strengthen these rituals. What tools do you use? Wand, athame, pentacle, chalice, besom, divination materials, cauldron, crystals, …
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, which is this coming weekend. …
Samhain, the day of the cross quarter between Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice, falls this year on November 6th, 10:58:50 p.m. MDT. That’s the astrological cross quarter, although of course secular Halloween is celebrated on October 31st, and most pagans celebrate Samhain that day as well. Read on for my astrology for the Samhain season …
I believe many of us are Daughters, yes, and Sons of Lilith. She is the Dark Mother in my pantheon. She is the archetype and personification of everything I believe… She is fierce, brutal, and brutally honest. She has neither the time nor the patience for lies or deception. She is passionate and erotic beyond …
I heard recently that we experience not one but many comings of age. I can’t find the author interview where I heard this, but I was inspired to think about my life at this stage as a coming of age. I have just retired from a career that has been so meaningful a part of …
This is the story of a poem and song that started with a heartbeat…coming out of a bathtub. It’s about being awake to magic and the messages of the Goddess. It’s about the song Jnana Mai, which translates as “mother wisdom”. Tom’s mystical experience In 1994, my friend, Tom Wolfe, master herbalist, fan of my …
This is installment seven of my eight-part series on pagan group psychology. Whether the group is a band of pagan musicians, a circle, or a festival community, it will follow the general patterns of human groups, passing through a series of predictable phases. We have considered the psychology typical of new groups, the energy of …
