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Pagan Prayer Beads – An Acknowledgment
The preserving shrine is nature and what is preserved in it. The preserving shrine is memory and what is preserved in it. – Irish Brehon law My magical heart-sister, Isar Danu, was the first who ever told me about Reclaiming Witchcamps back in the mid-90s, when she started attending them. Officially called “Summer Intensives,” they … Read more
From The Wild Hunt – In Memorium for Isaac Bonewits
This article was written by Jason Pitzl-Waters on his Wild Hunt blog and news service. It is one of the many excellent tributes saying farewell to this tremendously important figure in the Pagan world. May Isaac rest easy in the shining peace of the Goddess. May his beloveds’ loss be eased by the love that … Read more
Happy Friday the 13th
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. — Anonymous Before we get started on our Gratitude Journey (and please stop back by this weekend, when I will share some background on those Blessed Beads I featured here on Wednesday).. a pause to note this special day. Yes, beware, … Read more
Walking With the Ancestors
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder With this week’s New Moon that follows the celebration of the First Harvest, we now transition into the Fall quarter of the year. “Fall?!?” you say. I know, I know. Here in North … Read more
Blessings of the Leo New Moon
Dark of the Moon New beginnings Dark of the Moon Plant a seed tonight Dark of the Moon What we envision Will come to be by the Full Moon’s light. The New Moon in Leo occurs this Monday, August 9, 2010 at 11:08 pm ET (3:28 am August 10, 2010 GMT). As with all New … Read more
Sunday Poetry
Sunset Rainer Maria Rilke Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colours which it passes to a row of ancient trees. You look, and soon these two worlds both leave you, one part climbs toward heaven, one sinks to earth, leaving you, not really belonging to either, not so helplessly dark as that house … Read more
Celebrating the Overturning of California Proposition 8
Just for fun, today I offer a video in honor of the overturning of the unjust and unconstitutional Prop 8 in California. The fight is not over, but let’s take a moment here to celebrate! Sending much laughter and love, especially to all my dear Cali couple friends. Mazel tov! (Thanks to Barbara M. who … Read more