Poly and Pagan: When Worlds Dovetail
I’ve always gotten along best with the “honestly promiscuous.” If I belong to a “tribe,” we’re all easy, and happy about it.
Magic How-To
instructions for Wicca magic
Cast a Spell on Doubt
The heart of spellwork is creating a clear intention. Out of the muddle of our contradictory desires, we pluck this dream, clothe it in specifics, and set it on the altar. Magic has power because it requires a clear choice. “I want love, now” or “I want freedom, now”. I don’t cast spells very often–my …
Be a Sex Positive Pagan
Listening to Gaia Consort singing joyfully about sex as a positive act in The Rede, “An it harm none do what you will”, it occurs to me that this is sometimes easier said than done. In a sex negative culture with little EXPERT training in the ways of healthy seduction and versatile lovemaking how does …
Beyond Your Comfort Zone, part 3
Welcome to the third and final installment of my musings on moving beyond our comfort zones with the aid of the Dark Goddesses. Our journey started in part one of this series, I talked about how the Crone can stand beside us as we seek balance. We created sacred space and then accepted the challenge …
The Magic of Nature, Familiars and Shapeshifting
As Pagans we connect to the flora and fauna of the land. We draw energy from it all and in turn, give it back in our magical workings. Here in the Northern Hemisphere in March, we experience the turning of the season from the harsh lacking of life in the Winter to the budding, blooming …
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“Please Bless This Space”
Songs and Chants for Clearing Sacred Spaces Space Clearings and Home Blessings are essential tools for creating safe and powerful containers for Ritual, Healing, and Magick. We all have certain spaces where we spend most of our time. Whether it be our bedrooms, cars, our workspaces, or even our heart space; adding songs and chants, rhythm and melody …
Beyond Your Comfort Zone, part 2
In the first installment of this series, I spoke about how working with the dark goddess nurtures us. We pass into the shadow and it is there that we learn about ourselves in a deep way. We take what we have learned with us, as we step into the light again, transformed. Go ahead and …
Eternal Love
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 …
Beyond Your Comfort Zone, part 1
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 …
Gazing into the Mystery
Have you looked back in time? Seen the awesome origins of all of Creation? This divinity can be revealed in many ways- in the rituals that Pagans use to celebrate the Goddess, in the small and large magical events that fill our days, and in the connections that arise from the Perfect Love and Perfect …