Mmmm, can’t you feel all the witchy madness in the air? lol
Autumn is a special time for many witches, and I don’t think it is because of Halloween or Samhain. I think it’s because the air of change towards the darker speaks to the soul of a witch. The wild is withering to its bare bones in many places, but not here in Western Washington, where the evergreen trees are dense and lush and stretch on and on, up and down the coast. …
Category Archives: Ivy On The Path
The Bone-Man, the snake and the alraun
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| the snake wind around the base of the bone-man’s head. The serpent is the bringer of wisdom and all manner of deep and otherworldly magic. |
Finally, it is completed! Handcarved by Andrew Jimenez and Angelina Nelson (me). Ready to be dedicated on the dark moon. The (real ebony) wood was sained in silver-tear, rubbed in juniper, censed with juniper branch and mandrake leaf, oiled with my private blend of wormwood/mandrake anointing oil (everything hand collected and hand made of course). It rested on a bed of its own shavings and rabbit bones during the last dark moon. We sanded and smoothed it, blessed and re-blessed it and everyday felt the weight of its beautiful energy.
To continue reading this post, see the original at “The Bone-Man, the snake and the alraun“.
http://ivypaths.blogspot.com/2011/10/bone-man-snake-and-alraun.html
Green Witchcraft and The Virid Road
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| My little piece of the green craft: the path of the hippie, tree hugging hag. Angelina Nelson-J, September 2011 |
Digging
I push my hands through the soil, beneath my black veil, in the dark of the forest, when the sun is low over the mountains and the twilight is creeping in over the trees. I push my hands through the soft, wettish soil, allowing the tangle of roots to catch between my splayed hands. Upturned stone slide over my palms, the cold earth, the soil of the garden of the Green Woman is breaking apart with each push, yielding readily to the turn.
The ritual began with a bath with hand collected sea salt crystals, root of mandrake, rosemary and some other herbs; things to make my my body feel cleansed, to make my spirit feel lighter.
To continue reading, see the original post “Digging“.
Harvesthome and Wildcrafted
The weather was wild; the winds were stormy and swift, the sun was bright and warm between patches of black clouds. Trisha, my god-daughter Autumn and I walked and wildcrafted and harvested produce from the lonely community pea-patch …
Stuff of the Day
The Smoke Circle: Part II: In Medea’s Cauldron
Two days ago, during the Smoke Circle, we talked about the obsession with Hecate and Medea in the witch community. It was obvious to us all WHY- Medea is considered by many to be a queen of witchcraft in the ancient world, and her relative Hecate is a well loved and long worshiped goddess of witches. What we were after is answers about why so many witches online and in books lay claim to some of the lore and history of these two classical figures in witchcraft. <br …
Dust on the Pages, Books on the Bannister
Been wandering in my own head, writing new stories for old series’, making devotions to the rain-soaked Washington forests, leaving offerings in rings on the corpse-roads and at the roots of trees looked after by me and the watchers. The Wild Woman grows skinny and silent as the rains and cold come. Green Man’s face shrivels and is transformed into the quiet mask of the evergreens. The Hunter will ride in over the old-roads, the Hag will fly in with her hazel …
Black Wood, White Hand, Red Bone
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The Final Harvest, for me is heavily dedicated to Rosmerta- because she is the prosperous one, and the harvest is all about prosperity …
Healer’s Harvest Moon
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