instructions for Wicca magic
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 …
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 …
“Great Dragon, I beseech you-Sear my wounds!Let my screams be your breath!Lift me on the wind of my will!Let me burn my shadows to ash!Let me rise triumphant on my fury!” “Magna Draco” – Dream Tunes & Dragon Tales, Alexander James Adams These are the words I used to heal myself once, in a time …
It’s finally spring! Not the time of year you’d expect to be thinking about the Crone, right? Well, I have some perspective on the Crone Journey that seems to fit with spring energy. A few weeks ago I drew a card from my gems and minerals deck, The Illustrated Crystallary by Maia Toll. The card …
Microseconds following the Big Bang (approximately 14 Billion years ago)… the Cosmic Fireball expands, inflates, creating waves and ripples… they persist over eons of time, becoming Fields and Particles… and galaxies, and stars, and planets, and… Us? and Magic? Can what we know from Ritual and Ceremony be compatible with the story told by Science? …
By any other name…. The word as defined from Oxford Languages is “a man who practices witchcraft: a sorcerer”. Given my own specialized past, I will state here that any form of the Goddess who finds themselves resounding with this name is completely entitled to it. While I will refer to Warlock in the masculine …
This is the fourth and final episode of my self-care series for pagans. We’ve been around the Wheel of the Year now, with Aphrodite at our side, and a specially crafted playlist of music to move to each season. We began in spring, with Aphrodite Rising: Spring Fever. The wheel turned, and I gave you …
Recently I had the honor of teaching a class on trickster deities for Ardantane School of Paganism. Of course, as a Kreauwomun (Crow Woman), I have a natural draw to tricksters. And, of course, as a Crowwomin, I had to include trickster songs in the workshop. This was not as easy a task as I …
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 …
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, …
