Same Shit, Different Pagan Year.

Blessings, Darlings!

There might be lots of typos tonight – new computer, not yet the best ergonomic set up, new keyboard.  Anyway –

I’m in the midst of a very busy week of Samhain work here.  Starting with ritual Samhain Eve, starting daily work with the Planetary Powers on their appropriate days and during the appropriate Planetary Hours, done one major Tarot reading for the coming year and have 4 more to do, doing Jason Miller’s Hallows of Hekate ritual (got that done today), etc, all leading to the closing on November 7. Continue reading…

Book review: Bogowie

 Doing things a little different today, a book review of a subject I actually don’t know much about. I thought it would be fun to dig into a subject that’s new to me so today we’re going to be talking about T. D. Kokoszka’s book ‘Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe’s Ancient Gods’. This one is out through my publisher Moon Books.Bogowie is a fascinating dive into Slavic paganism from an academic…

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Fairy Folklore in Coraline

In 2021 I had started a series of posts examining fairy folklore found in popular movies and shows. I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus from that but wanted to return to it with a look at Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (the movie, not the book). Obviously I am not trying to argue here that the author’s intention was to frame the story this way, although it may well have been, but what I want to do here is to…

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Disorderly Conduct

Blessings Darlings!

As I’ve mentioned before – I am where organization goes to die.  For example – today my NEW journal disappeared.   Can’t find the damn thing anywhere.  It’s amazing how fast this happened.

So when I tell you that the goal I set for this month … Continue reading…

Is there an echo in here?

Blessings, Darlings!

I don’t usually invest my blogging time on religions other than my own, but I DO often invest it in rants, so I guess what follows is going to still be on-brand.

This is inspired by a Facebook post by an ex coworker and now Facebook ex-friend.  He posted that humans are not animals.  As one would expect, I took issue with this idea. Continue reading…

Cats and Disorganization and Life, Oh My!

Blesssings Darlings!

My goodness, it’s been over a week since I last blogged.  Time sure flies in harvest season.  And I’m havin a really hard time keeping up with all the tomatoes and … Continue reading…

THE ANNALS OF THE FOUR MASTERS

Title: The Annals of the Four Masters
Full Title: The Annals of the Four Masters – Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century
Author: Bernadette Cunningham
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2014
ISBN: 9781846825385
Pages: 348 including Appendix, Bibliography and Index.
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A little this and that.

 Blessings Darlings!

We got heavy rain yesterday!  I fear that most of it ran off the lawn, but I will go out soon and start digging the hole for the elderberry.  At least the ground shouldn’t be rock hard, right? 

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Still too dry. Soon to be hot.

 Blessings Darlings!

We’re heading into a little heat wave here – 4 days in the 90’s, at least one currently forecast to be 98. And the rain forecast for today didn’t arrive, of course.  The somewhat underwatered basil really really wants to go to seed.  I really, really want it to keep going so I can make … Continue reading…

Weed whacking.

 Blessings Darlings!

Holy Moly, it’s amazing what I can get done around here when I actually have time!  The feral garden has been weeded and mulched, except for the area by the big Swiss Chard patch.  And THOSE darlings are feral and able to fight back/block the sun from any weeds that dare try to invade.

Today I started work on … Continue reading…