Greetings and a very Merry Yule to every Gentleperson! The wheel turns and we come to Winter Solstice. End of a year and an era. In more than a few ways. We have had a “grand conjunction” of Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn culminating this year and all squaring Eris. All have moved on …
I’m deep into the process of writing a book on pagan music. I want to tell you, dear Pagan Song readers, about the wisdom I’ve been writing about and how you can use it to enrich your magical practice through music. I’d love to get your suggestions in the comments section. What do you think …
As Indigenous people in the United States have recently had to remind us, water is life. As pagan Wiccans, we refer to water as the blood of the Goddess. Water is sacred, beautiful, necessary and precious. Water, wondrous waterI kneel before you, giver of lifeI cannot live without you within meYou give me life, you …
Hestia is one of those goddesses that doesn’t get a lot of attention. But as a goddess of hearth and home, we’re coming into her season of Thanksgiving and then the December seasonal celebrations as we hunker down in the dark time of year (in the Northern Hemisphere). COVID gives that dark time extra meaning …
A new pagan group has been together for several months and things just seem to be getting more disorganized. Instead of diligently getting started on time at rituals and classes, the members chat and joke around. A sign that the group is degrading? No. It’s a sign that it has moved out of the first …
“We are come to the labyrinth tonight, walking one by one, in the dark of Samhain…” These lyrics, from the song “Come to the Labyrinth” by S.J. Tucker inspired me to create a magickal Samhain ritual using a labyrinth as a symbol of walking through the liminal spaces of Samhain night. Many Pagans honor the …
Blessings to all and may all have a blessed Samhain. This most auspicious of Cross Quarter Days falls this year in at a most auspicious time, to put it mildly. In the United States we are having an election, as I am sure you know. From our viewpoint before the election, things are looking dicey. …
Groups are born and grow just as people do. In our previous discussion of group evolution over time, we’ve looked at newly formed groups, in posts on bonding, on dependency and on anxiety. In this post and the next one, I’ll talk about the second phase of group development. The term for the beginning stage …
Here’s a Crow Quiz just for you! You’ve listened to the Crow Women albums. You read the Crow Women blogs. Perhaps you’ve imagined yourself as a Crow Woman. But which Crow? Or should I say, Witch Crow? From the studio that brought you such august quizzes as “Which Harry Potter character are you?” “Which Friend …
As we approach the last harvest I am furiously preserving food in order to have yummy and healthy treats over the winter – pestos, salsas, and also SHRUBS! A shrub is an ancient way to preserve fresh fruit in vinegar and sweetener, dating back to the Babylonians, which is then splashed into some sparkling water, …
