Bead Basics and Beyond

A strand of carefully chosen beads and charms can provide a group of symbolic objects to fill your mind and heart with associated images, memories and thoughts…[they] satisfy something very deep in the human psyche – the need to touch, handle, feel with our fingertips. — from Pagan Prayer Beads: Magic and Meditation with Pagan … Read more

The Beads and the Prayer

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement.  Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. — Mahatma Gandhi In case you have never used a rosary, mala, or other prayer bead tool (I certainly had not when I first made mine), the idea is to construct a circle or line … Read more

A Spellworking Tonight for the Gulf

If you have some time tonight, our friends from the Noreast Web/Vermont Witch Camp Community are working a magical world-wide web weaving spell. I invite you join your energy in whatever ways feel right for you. *Tonight 9:30-10:30 Eastern Time We are working together to send healing to the Living Waters of the Gulf of … Read more

The 5th Annual Cyberspace Poetry Slam for Brigid

For the 3rd year, I am delighted and honored to join in the ever-growing Brigid Poetry Slam.  Throughout the blogosphere, everyone is invited to post poetry in honor of blessed Brigid, Goddess of Poetry on Her holy day. My contribution today is a beautiful selection that my sister used for an art piece she made … Read more

Wishing You A Most Blessed Yule!

Join together beneath the mistletoe. By the holy oak whereon it grows. Seven Druids dance in seven time. Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming. Ring out these bells. Ring out, ring Solstice bells. Ring Solstice bells. — Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull ©1977 The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year in … Read more

Transforming Lead Into Gold

Be really whole And all things will come to you. — Lao-tzu Today, we finish up the exercises from Chapter Nine, “Recovering a Sense of Compassion.” I hope that this chapter truly has opened up some of your deepest blocks, so that compassion and love for your inner creator are unleashed to flood through your … Read more

Solstice Wreath Ritual – 2009

It’s time once again to join together every Sunday through Yule (or Christmas) for our annual Yule Prayer-Spell. If you have been a regular reader of mine in past years, you know that starting in late November, I invite all my visitors, regardless of path, to join together in a virtual prayer circle, or spell … Read more