Ritual music

A Beautiful Crone

Ritual to Celebrate the Crone: Ending Menopause

Crone. Hag. Witch. To modern pagans and wiccans, these are honorifics, not insults. A pagan woman spends her whole lifetime becoming a crone, and by Goddess, she deserves a ritual worthy of that investment! I’ve been planning my Croning for nineteen years, which is all the more amusing considering that I’m only forty-five. Of course, …

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Murphy the canine familiar

Farewell, My Familiar-A Song for Ritual

Crow Magic was my first foray into recording with the Crow Women. Imagine my elation when our most prolific and arguably most talented songwriter Alane Crowomyn asked me to sing a lead on one of her songs. If only because of that, Farewell, My Familiar holds a special place in my heart. But it isn’t the …

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Summer Solstice recollections

“It’s Summertime, Summertime, Sum-Sum-Summertime…”  We have traveled halfway around the Wheel from Yule , and the Sun stands still once again. We experience the longest day, the shortest night, the brightness and the fullness of the start of our season of summer. We celebrate the life-giving, life-affirming, life-abundant time of growth, both within and without. …

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A Sex Goddess Ritual Using Recorded Music

Have you or someone you know ever uttered the words, “I’d like to have more music in my ritual, but I can’t sing”?  If so, you are not alone.  We run into many circles and solitaries who love hearing music far more than they are comfortable making it.  My own mother swears she could drag an entire church …

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Poking Fun at Witch Stereotypes

I’ve always been leery about religious or spiritual types who are unwilling to occasionally poke fun at their own beliefs and practices.  As Witches/Wiccans, we have a lot of stereotypes to satirize, thanks to Halloween, such as the old hag with green skin and a big wart on her long hooked nose. Like you, I …

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I Am the Kitchen of the Goddess

Happy Mother’s Day! Earth spirituality often depicts the earth as a mother: the source of nourishment, healing and comfort. From “give thanks to the Mother Goddess” to “the earth is our mother, we must take care of her”, images of the divine mother abound in pagan songs. One of the things that drew me into …

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