Almost Imbolc

It’s time to settle back into our celebratory year and get ready for Imbolc, for Brigid’s day. I’m going to post some ideas for how-tos, some Facebook Live videos, and some personal and group rituals. I’m starting today with a paper I wrote for...

Dawn Like Thunder

I would have written yesterday but I drank too much champagne and spent far too much time on Facebook where I and a million other people were holding our collective breath until the transition from the old administration to the new old administration was complete....

I Like Words

While I’m learning this new editor program and trying to retrain myself to blog regularly, these blogposts will consist of words. No fancy-ass staged photos, softly focused and featuring items that will reassure you that I am an Appalachian woman, a writer, a...

Booking It

I have a book to read tomorrow. It’s called “Seasons of a Magical Life: a Pagan Way of Living.” It’s coming out in August, from Weiser Books. Yeah, it’s my book. My new, new book. Let me explain. Back before this Plague Year, I signed...

Lughnasadh Preparations

I’m working on the public Lammas ritual that Mother Grove Goddess Temple is hosting on Sunday afternoon in Malvern Hills Park.  I rather fell in love with Tailtiu last year and wrote this invocation for her. I may use it again–   Daughter of Mag...

…and then a step to the right…

  I am briefly at home between festivals and will do my best to catch up a bit here. These are certainly exciting times to be alive. In between camping adventures and walking on new lands (prairie!), I am keeping an eye on the energies and the people that deeply...