“The Green Man” (William Anderson) Like antlers, like veins of the brain the branches Mark patterns of mind on the red winter sky; ‘I am thought of all plants,’ says the Green Man, ‘I am thought of all plants,’ says he. The hungry birds harry the last berries of rowan But white is her bark…
Category: Seasons
Walk Through the Doorway
Invitation The Essene Book of Days says “Samhain is the doorway to the sanctum sanctorum. Beyond this doorway lies the deep cavern of the Earth Mother’s womb, the creative abyss, from which grows all that is intuitive and contemplative and natural on this earth.” We are in Inanna’s Descent. Take a little bit of time…
What the heck is a sacred gyroscope?
A Sacred Gyroscope is a shamanic way of looking at and interacting with your world. It helps you see where you are in the world. It enhances your strengths and bolsters your weaknesses. It can show you your path. It can protect you. It includes the relational directions like left, right, up, and down, as…
Aries New Moon: goals into action
What are your short term goals for the next month? Do you have any stretch goals? This is the best New Moon to set intentions and immediately carry those goals into action. Chiron, the wounded healer, Mercury, who governs the mind, the Sun, and the Moon are all in go-getter Aries. The Aries New Moon…
The Vernal Equinox and the Wheel of the Year
It’s the Vernal Equinox! I like to look backward before I look forward… I live in Southern California. Celebrating the Celtic calendar creates cognitive dissonance for me. As a shaman and a witch, I work to align myself with nature’s cycles, but those cycles, at least in my surroundings, don’t match up with the High…
Cross Quarter of the Indwelling Divine
This Cross Quarter is about assessing and celebrating our inner strengths.
The month ahead (July 2021)
About a year ago, I wrote “Expect August to be the hardest month of 2021”. So we’re moving toward that. In January, I recommended Spend at least 5 minutes a day generating the feeling you will have when the desired future is an actuality, taking action to create the new paradigm in which you want…
May 2021: The Veil Thins
May 2021: The Veil Thins… Most people don’t think of late spring as the time when the veil thins, but we are at the other side of the wheel from the end of October, and the veil thins here too. While in the autumn, everything is dying, in spring it comes alive, glorious and bursting…
The current energies are bouncing off of each other
We just got whapped by some solar energy over the last few days; scientifically speaking, it was a glancing blow, but the CME was decently sized, so we definitely felt it. For those of you who haven’t been following this blog for a while, the heart of our solar system is a higher manifestation of…
February Cross Quarter Contemplation
This is one of the two Cross Quarters (sometimes known as Imbolc, or First Milk of the Lamb) which offer us the opportunity to get more present and aware of what we have in the here and now. The actual astrological date for the Cross Quarter this year is February 4th. Taking the Wheel of…
September, and then October: Ancestors, Grief, and Stillness
I feel like we’re in wrap up and catch up energies currently. I’m sure part of it is the fact that we’re coming up on October, which is a grief month for me, so my own personal energy is more sluggish. Not to mention everything that’s going on in the world. You’ll remember, a few…
Invocation to The Magdalene
O Kallah Messiah, Anointed Bride, Lady of Light, Lady of Fire, Come and breathe upon me, Come and dance with me; Take me now into your embrace, That I might know the fullness of Divine Love, And be joined to my Beloved, as you are joined in Union The image of the Human One of…