Blessings Darlings!
I’m in a lot of Pagan groups on FaceBook. In some of them, I even use my real name! The groups are where I get much of the inspiration for the Pagan posts on this blog. (Stop the pearl clutching – I don’t air individual’s issues/private stuff – I note general trends.) … Continue reading…
It was recently brought to my attention on social media that not everyone may understand exactly what a royal court is or how one functions, and specifically how this relates to the fairy courts. Today I want to address this issue and try to offer some clarity on the subject for anyone who is curious.
‘Riders of the Sidhe’ by John Duncan
It’s important to understand that when we talk…
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I am … disorganized … to put it mildly. Okay, I’m Chaos personified. My house is where Order goes to die. Adding that to my … Continue reading…
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Oh, goody – it’s “Lammas”. Lammas it the neopagan holiday that demonstrates exactly how … Continue reading…
The following article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book ‘Travelling the Fairy Path’. It looks at material from the ballad ‘The Elfin Knight’ and what we may learn from it as people interested in fairylore. I find it particularly valuable in what it may teach is about the importance of consent for witches when dealing with the Fair Folk in certain situations, particularly sexual ones. We see…
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We old folks, who remember feminist activism in the ’70’s, remember the mantra “the personal is political” – that is, a lot of what you personally experience is a result of what the Powers That Be allow/encourage. Your experiences reflect systemic problems – they are not JUST ‘your problems.’ The phrase is just as true today, 40+ years later, as it was then.
To straighten out some of the big things in your life, you end up working against rather than with, ‘the system.’ And even if you kludge some sort of solution, it only helps you – it doesn’t solve the systemic problem.
Let me give you an example. I live in … Continue reading…
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I did NOT plan on needing to USE that health insurance within half an hour of my post on having it going up – but no one PLANS on injuring themselves!
It started off as such a good day – I was … Continue reading…
I draw on a lot of resources for my own practice of witchcraft, and at this point I’ve moved away (for the most part) from looking at how other modern practitioners do things and instead draw on ideas about how historic witchcraft was likely done. I combine that with folk magic practices and the Fairy Faith to create the practical system that I use for my witchcraft.
Here is a list of some of…
So I’m recently running into this idea that all fairies are the human dead.Let’s unpack that because its complicated.
I have written about the intertwining of fairies and the dead before in a blog that was an excerpt from my book ‘Fairies’. The subject is very convoluted and there really is no direct answer to the question “Are the fairies human dead?”. Ultimately we would have to say yes, no,…
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For the first time in rather a while – I have health insurance. Because the home business side of our income has been suffering and we’ve not been able to pay ourselves, I now qualify for …