Have you ever wondered what it is about a song lyric that captures your imagination? Some lyrical phrases leave a stirring within us long after the song ends, while others leave us flat. What makes the difference? One of our challenges as songwriters is to create an experience for our listeners without them feeling bludgeoned. …
Alane was kind enough to ask me to be a guest writer, once again, for these blogs. In her request she wanted to know how my Beltane song Bringing in the May came about. I answered that I’d like to know that TOO and grinned. It’s is on my album Welcome to Annwfn. Here it …
Hello – warm and magical greetings from Australia. I want to share with you the creation and birthing of one of my songs ‘ Goddess Of The Southern Land’ and how it came out of my spiritual journey in this country I call home. The land of my blood ancestors I am a first generation …
I am a musician with a mission statement: To make people feel something, and to focus on hope, even within the saddest songs. How do you write of joy when you do not feel it yourself? How do you deal with writer’s block and stagnancy? How do you cease treading that killing loop that says …
I believe many of us are Daughters, yes, and Sons of Lilith. She is the Dark Mother in my pantheon. She is the archetype and personification of everything I believe… She is fierce, brutal, and brutally honest. She has neither the time nor the patience for lies or deception. She is passionate and erotic beyond …
This is the story of a poem and song that started with a heartbeat…coming out of a bathtub. It’s about being awake to magic and the messages of the Goddess. It’s about the song Jnana Mai, which translates as “mother wisdom”. Tom’s mystical experience In 1994, my friend, Tom Wolfe, master herbalist, fan of my …
Honoring our ancestors brings us into deeper connection with ourselves. The song Breaths is an illustration of this connection. As I move into the Crone goddess phase of my lifetime, this song is teaching me how to navigate this journey. Come with me and explore the history of this song and how it reflects Wiccan …
A Gift of Song Safely curled up in my tent after a wet Autumn festival weekend, I contemplated this: my last evening in the woods, the pre-Samhain introspection of the rituals and workshops, and my connection to my community and to our elders and ancestors. A time for thoughts of rites of passage. Anticipating a …
Music lovers in the pagan community have asked me about the genesis of my songs and stories. As a child I was always fascinated by a good story. I would find myself happily lost in whatever world was created by the story that I was reading or watching. I read everything that I could, from …
Spring is the time of fairies. Okay, every time is the time of fairies, they’d have me remind you. But spring is a time when those of us inhabiting the mortal world can most easily see their effects. And as liminal creatures, fairies are certainly comfortable in the spring, the transition time between the cold gray winter, …
