The Crow Women have been in the recording studio on and off for the past 10 months, working on our upcoming new album. Our previous CD, Crow Magic, was released in the summer of 2012. It had two main themes. One was rites of passage, including songs for baby blessings, coming of age, handfasting, croning …
I have a small drawer where I keep Crow Women-related papers and other items. In early 2018, it was getting way too full and needed to be cleaned out. There were a lot of song words that I already had multiple copies of. So most of those went to recycling. But I also found a …
I was just my mother’s daughter. You may think that being the daughter of a goddess is all frolicking and flower picking and ambrosia and harps. Okay, it is all that. And it’s living life in the shadows—someone else’s shadow at that. A big, fat, Olympian, grain-filled, fertile shadow. I couldn’t exactly say that to Demeter. She’s too busy …
In hopes that you, dear reader, may be inspired to incorporate this song into some of your ritual work, I am sharing some thoughts about how that may be accomplished. It would honor the Crow Women greatly to know that others in the Pagan and Wiccan community find our music inspiring and useful. First, please …
I wrote the song that is the opening track on the Crow Women’s second album, Crow Magic. It’s titled The Law of Three. It’s a little chant with a big message: The Law of Three says what I give out, then, the world gives back and the world gives back and the world gives back …
First and foremost, the Crow Women are a Wiccan coven. We are a sisterhood that celebrates the Goddess and our earth-based spirituality with music (and other forms of art). Secondly, we are a Pagan choir. Finally, we all have our mundane lives to keep us going. What we are not: investment bankers, trust funders, financial …
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This post, part 1 of the Candle Flame series, describes Marilyn’s experience in writing the song Candle Flame. Part 2 will explore ways you can use the song in your own ceremonies. The song lyrics appear at the end of this blog entry. “Let us light a candle flame…” How often we turn toward the …
Does it ruin the magick of a thing to know how it’s made? Is the sun any less magickal to us now that we know it is a hot sphere of hydrogen and helium that is one of millions of its kind? Or is it somehow even more unimaginable to know how complicated the universe really is? …
This is an exciting moment; the launching of pagansong.com! For many years I have taught workshops at pagan festivals on how to use music in ritual. Many of the songs I share in my workshops were recorded by the Crow Women, an amazing group of women I have circled with since our founding in 1992. …
