Blessings Darlings!
I don’t have time to crank out a ‘real’ blog today. I’ve been busy with the Trump policy of separating asylum seeking and immigrant parents from their children and other immigration issues. So here’s a copy of the letter we gave to two of our congresscritters yesterday (we also had a sign-wave outside their offices – FAR more approval from passing cars than disapproval!)
Blessings Darlings!
Let’s settle in with a summer drink for a discussion of ‘types of magic’, and try to get this done before my husband drags me off to practice holding webinars using Webinar Jam (*I* am not looking to do webinars, but an organization we’re involved in is, and the Chubby Hubby offered to do the tech stuff so …)
Now I’m not going to talk about Green magic vs hedge witchery vs water witches vs whatthefuckever. Personally I see those divisions as micromanaging. YMMV. Instead, I’m going to start with what are to me the Two Big Divisions, and then look at a hierarchy of approaches to magic.
I’m excited to announce that the 7th book in my Between the Worlds series ‘Desire and Ashes’ is out today in paperback and on ebook. From the back cover:Bookshop owner Allie McCarthy is settling into life as a new mother along with her two spouses. She’s got her hands full with an infant and a business to run, trying to walk a fine line between the human world she considers her home and the…
I often talk about my concerns with modern fiction and its portrayal of fairies, particularly the way the end up being humanized. While I understand why this happens and I can even appreciate it when reading it I see a lot of material from fiction that is clearly purely from an author’s imagination making its way into modern pagan belief as if it were genuine folklore. Obviously that’s a concern…
Blessings Darlings!
You KNOW it’s true: damn near every online Pagan group has constant posts of animals and people claiming that the animals/pets are their familiars. Such posts take up a huge amount of bandwidth (I’m so old that I remember when that mattered). So let’s start with what a familiar spirit is and what its traditional functions are. …
Blessings, Darlings!
Yes, welcome to another installment of “oft bandied phrases” in the neopagan/witch world. Today is “we are all brothers and sisters.”
You’re probably a nice enough person, but you are not …
Recently I had written a blog about viewing Fairyland as modern and reassessing our conceptions of it and its inhabitants. Following on that I saw a post by Chas Clifton on his blog at Letters from Hardscrabble Creek ‘In the Land of Fairy Don’t Eat the Pentagram Pizza’ which touched on my blog as well the post by John Beckett that had inspired mine, but Clifton also went further to talk about…
Blessings Darlings!
At this point of time I’m actively grieving the death of a friend. Her funeral was this morning, my son and I (we both worked with her) were able to attend the funeral but not last nights viewing.
We don’t go to many funerals. Part of it is our ages (relatively few of the folks were closest to die very often), partly because for family deaths we are more likely to visit the family during the week of observing …
Blessings Darlings!
It’s time. I can’t put off looking at “An it harm none, do as ye will”.
Let’s start with this: it’s 8 words. EIGHT E*I*G*H*T . Shortening it IN ANY WAY changes it completely. It’s meaning is not …
The beginning of June, for the fifth time, I headed off to the Morrigan’s Call Retreat to share in fellowship with other people who honour the Great Queens. Every year I teach workshops at the Retreat and help in the rituals; I see old friends and make new connections with people. My experiences over the years have been good ones and I always write about them when I get back.
Bridge entering…