I took to the forest again today, to indulge in the sleepy day dreams and to honor the spring and the spirits who are the soul of this fertile time. I came to speak with the dead in the land, to tend the forest and to seek the sharp…
Author Archives: Via Hedera
Welcome the Green
This Wortmoon brought with it the first ue spring day here in the evergreen forests. The Welcoming of the Green Woman and Green Man, their shining hoard and the spirit-of-spring was to commence, and we wove our way through a secluded forest path to the largest stones up river. Our skin was warmed by the sun, all of us breathless and excited as we mucked through estuary, waded through the river and hopped over stones to climb up the hillside to our little patch of silence in the woods. Our shoes were caked with the remnants of our arduous journey…
A Bit of Normal, A Bit of Strange
Workhands of a wild, deathless hag…
I’ve been consumed in my newest book; Witchcraft of the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande by Marc Simmons for the last(…)
Antiques
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| key and the copper cauldron |
I have a serious obsession, a love affair with antiques. I blame my grandmother for this passionate fixation with antiquated objects and the previously owned.
What I’m Looking For
I was so inspired by Sarah’s new blog entry, it was amazing to see so much of someone in their writing, to see into(…)
Amorous Charms and Love Muses
As I talked about sometime ago, erotic magic, sacred sexuality and Aphrodite are often the focus of my work with other women. Aphrodite has always represented the world of sensuality, eroticism, pleasure and aesthetic- she inspires with her beauty, with her essence, with her power. Love magic and romantic or erotic spells(…)
Things We Found in Our Childhood
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| I said I was always a witch. You can tell which one is me by my sinister smile. I am the candy witch! |
It’s weird when you find old magical things from your childhood, not every witch had the opportunity to spend their life walking the road, I consider myself lucky to have had so much time as a little magician.
Spring
Waiting for spring is like waiting for a much anticipated present to arrive. I’lI never tire of watching the slow arrival of shoots in the undergrowth, or the seamless and seemingly instantaneous arrival of pink blossoms(…)
Magic on the Puget Sound
Cornish(…)
Pagan Plagiarism
For those of you unaware of the scandal, the work of The Witch of Forest Grove, Sarah Lawless was recently plagiarized by a man by the name of Damien(…)