Hashtagging the Apocalypse..which it isn’t, btw
come into my parlour… So…the election was a shocker. People are processing it on all sides. Social media is a minefield of vacuous positivities, calls for direct action and fear-mongering...
View ArticleMine Eyes Do Itch. Doth that Bode Weeping?
In this case, yes. My eyes are burning, scratchy, irritated. The Sun is setting, mercurochrome pink, as the Moon rises into the thick smoke of thousands of acres of southern Appalachian woodlands...
View ArticlePondering the Times, and polishing the good silver
Spent all day today in meetings, one right after the other. Good meetings, strong meetings, merry meetings. Yesterday, however, was a day of traveling and thinking and scheming. It began in Cleveland,...
View ArticleA Hawk on the Lady’s Arm
winter solstice in the park Lately, in teaching and workshopping, I’ve taken to beginning each one with a solemn plea to those people in the group who consider themselves magic-workers of some...
View ArticleSymbol. Omen.
gazing pool The smoke has returned here. We had a couple of clearer and more hopeful days but today the air quality took another downturn and I am coughing and red-eyed again. As North Carolina...
View ArticleHarvest Home. It’s complicated.
It may be that celebrating the harvest was always a complicated matter. After spending months in the anxiety and hard work of planting, tending, harvesting and preserving the crops, we were exhausted,...
View ArticleOn the Intricacies of Candleflame
ancestor altar 2014 We are in the final weeks of the half-year season that I call the Long Dying. The Winter Solstice will be arrive on the longest night of the year, when all hope of mercy and aid has...
View ArticlePreserving Fruit to Soothe the Soul
pretty berries but not on my stove today I have spent the last few days preparing for the winter Solstice giving season. My year of travelling continues one week from today as we head northward to my...
View ArticleThe Vagaries of Time
A few days ago, I heard a news report about the Japanese prime minister visiting Pearl Harbor. The news reader thought it was particularly significant that this visit came in the same month as the...
View ArticleA New and Hobbitty Sort of Year
I was trying to take a nap a couple of days ago and kept getting interrupted. This is my interrupted-nap face 2016 has made us stronger, more introspective, clearer on what we will and won’t tolerate....
View ArticleAn Evening of Shakespeare
this earth, this realm I’m sure I should be exhorting you, gentle reader, to ground yourself and set strong intentions for this new year. But better folk than I are spending so many words on doing so...
View ArticleA New Pair of Boots and the Bride’s Bed
bits and bobs and Imbolc very, very soon I got a new pair of work boots today and they came in a big cardboard box. Brilliant. With Imbolc only a few weeks away, my thoughts are turning to prep for...
View ArticleThis Week
I’ve been posting on Facebook this week, leading up to the Women’s March today. I’ve put those pieces together here so I have a record of this powerful time. This place where we can practice love…in...
View ArticleNow What?
Stop. Ground. Listen. Sense. We are being bombarded by histrionic information. This is not an accident. It is by design. Ground. Then shields up. Strong. Sense. Think. What is really going on? Quiet...
View ArticleAwash in the Uses of Magic
But what tools do we really need to do the simple and required magics? Only this my heart and these my two hands. I stand with the Queens as my allies, here in the Realms beyond the Veil. I’ve gone...
View ArticleHoney on the Stones
Some of my recent research and practice has included an intense examination of several aspects of what has come to be called “sex magic.” I have found the work endlessly fascinating and am offering a...
View ArticleSpinning. A Bit.
Gosh, I wish this was about me spinning all that pretty wool into yarn. Yeah, all that wool in the bag just over there–wool that came from my sheep-friend, Monkey Boy. Well, maybe it did. It’s been...
View ArticleWhat I Do When I’m Not Here
This past weekend was full and rather glorious. I am feeling quite full of myself and am in danger of getting The Big Head. (You Southerners will understand that.) It started with an interview on the...
View ArticleMy Wandering Uterus
Was it only yesterday that we were riffing on Facebook about a very interesting story about the mediaeval and Victorian idea of the wandering uterus? I remarked that “My Wandering Uterus” would be a...
View ArticleEmbracing Willendorf–Free Willi!
Aiaiaiai! The proof for my new book–Embracing Willendorf–has been in my hands since Monday evening and the first bulk order has been placed by the publisher, Smith Bridge Press. You can order it...
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