Sacred Music How-to

I am a traveling Bard and a student of Kaballah. It can get confusing, as...

Singing is Powerful.  Not only is it fun and expressive it also has many health benefits.  So...

Ah, my fellow Creative Souls – and we are all Creatives, are we not? Do...

The last couple of years of COVID-19, social distancing, career pivots, and cancellations has been...

When we sing we pray twice.  When we loop our voices we create a quantum choir...

In a previous post, I wrote about the why zills are an excellent choice for...

Recently my human Mom left her computer within bunny reach so I started skimming the...

It’s the ultimate dilemma. There you are at the fire circle, the fire beckoning. Your...

Right now, the Crow Women are practicing for our concert at Covenant of the Goddess‘...

As witches, many of us use magickal tools of some sort. From the practical everyday...

So glad that you, dear reader, are back again for more information on improving your...

As you know by now, the Crow Women are a women’s circle that is centered...

Does it ruin the magick of a thing to know how it’s made?  Is the sun...

How I am preparing for my winter artist residency as a songwriter After years of dreaming of and researching artist residencies around the US, I have found a great fit, and am excited to announce that I have been awarded a five month artist residency with Osage Arts Community in...

Songwriting is such a strange process. I often spend months and much research on a single idea, and it might take a year for the actual song to emerge and mature. I have even said that a song isn’t a song until I have played it 100 times, because it...

ghost-writer We write and sing songs to celebrate, to express our connection to each other, our community, and the sacred.  Music is a powerful means to express Spirit. There are as many methods to writing music as there are musicians:  The whole piece may write itself; the lyrics may come first, or...

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...

Does the hypnotic lull of the sea draw you, and mesmerize you in its captivating rhythms? If so, you and I are kin. Since a young girl growing up on the California coast, I have been captivated by the sea. It has always seemed a portal into another world; the...

Louis Garou is the newest addition to the Pagan Song blogging team. In this post, he shares his insights into songwriting in the Pagan Music genre, and gives the inside story of three of his songs: Rise up Lilith, Not this Time and My Other Side. Welcome, Louis! I am...

Cynthia Crossen is a successful writer of heartfelt songs that are popular within the Pagan community. I interviewed her about her song, The Roots of My Heart, and she described to me her philosophy of song and her dedication to her craft. She joyfully works to nurture singing and song...

The Crow Women songs that we put out for the world are original words and music, except for some of my songs. There are a lot of really nice melodies out there, traditional folk songs and old time Christian hymns, that cry for better or at least different words. Pagan...

This past weekend at Ardantane, we went on a weekend-long musical journey. We explored many ways music expresses and enhances earth-based spirituality. Today’s post will focus on one of several workshops I taught there: How to Write a Chant for your Spirit Animal. Ardantane is a wonderful place for connecting...

So, you’d like to write a song. Here are just a few tips to get you going. 1. Sing to your pet, plant or baby What you need to begin is an uncritical audience. For me it’s my cat, Talisman. I often sing to him when I get up in...