Category Archives: Fern’s Fronds

Calling a Spade a Spade.

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Let us all say this in unison – Fern is not everyone’s cuppa.  Did I hear all my Mountain Sisters (and I don’t just mean Owl Mt, I mean all the Delicate Flowers of Appalachian Womanhood) snickering?

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Can’t Escape Classical Greece

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Today the remarkable Suz and I went to the coffee shop to write.  As it happened, we were both writing about Hellenic Paganism.  Which isn’t TOTALLY unusual for us, her being Hellenic and me being … all over(…)

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Heat Wave Eve

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An early heat wave is going to be starting here tomorrow.  Temperatures will be in the 90’s and the humidity will be high for 5 days.  Therefore, I did some preparations to help reduce my electricity use during(…)

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Nature Unaided Fails

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I want a stang.  Y’all who are Pagans have seen stangs before – they are the ‘staff with two or three points on the top’.  Here’s a grand article about them http://witchofforestgrove.com/2011/02/27/how-to-use-a-stang/.  I have heard it can be used as a magical gateway, and want to try that out.  I have to admit I don’t quite get how that would work, or why it would be different than using a ‘regular’ staff, or my staff with the antler on top. 

Today, a cold day with a seriously sharp wind, I moved from inertia into active on getting one.  Or co-creating one.

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The Witching Hour

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There’s a lot of references to “The Witching Hour” in popular culture.  Mundanely, it can refer to the time of day when things are at their worst – the rush time a job, the time of day when the newborn is ALWAYS cranky(…)

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Charmed, I’m sure.

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A recent question, not asked to me exactly, but posted online: “This is going to sound silly, but I love to have all my pieces with me,
particularly the ones that function as jewelry, so my question(…)

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Dream Worlds

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The more you track you dreams, the more you are likely to see familiar and repeating layouts and figures in your dream(…)

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When the Spawn’s Away…

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Since the Spawn hasn’t been getting many hours at work (they aren’t getting many customers for day shift, so they call and tell him not to come in), he’s covering not one but TWO other folks’ shifts at work today. (…)

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Casting a Quarter-Cast Circle

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I’m going to steal my own writings here.  I explained circle casting in a Facebook group today, and I’m cutting and pasteing that here now.  Enjoy!

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End Of Month Eats

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In a recent discussion in a Facebook group, the issue of getting thru’ the end of the month on pasta or ramen came up.  And how boring living on those noodles are.

Well.

First of all, you(…)

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