The subject of Freya’s cats came up recently on social media, so I wanted to share this excerpt from my forthcoming book Pagan Portals Freya. I hope this may clarify some points, as this summarizes the information we have from the older sources and may help people differentiate between new ideas and stories and the older beliefs. Cats –
Freya is said to travel in a chariot pulled by two cats,…
All of My Fairy Writing
I’ve been asked several times about what I’ve written on fairies by people looking into my writing on the subject. I finally decided it would just be easier to write a quick bit here about it. I’m including articles, presentations, and books. I am not including the range of my blog material on Living Liminally or on Patheos Agora: Irish-American Witchcraft or Witches&Pagans On the Fairy Road. (…
Planting by days off, not by the moon
Blessings Darlings!
It was a day off of my ‘paying’ job today, so it was all about resting and garden work. By ‘garden work’ I mean I planted more sprouting seeds in real soil and started hardening the plants off. I can’t work in the actual garden because we have a drought going on here at this time, and if I want to do anything with the garden I’ll have to water it before I can work the earth.
While I never like to … Continue reading…
Bad Meme: Beltane Edition
Several years ago I had done a few posts seeking to clarify confusion around popular things on social media relating to specific pagan holidays including Yule, Samhain, and ‘Ostara’. I’ve never done one for Bealtaine mostly because I haven’t seen a huge amount of misinformation about it being shared around. That is starting to change, at least a bit, so today I thought I’d tackle a couple of…
Current List of All My Published Work
Bibliography
Articles
“Healing
Ritual for the Ocean Waters”, Circle Magazine issue 109 summer 2011
“A
Gaelic View of Samhain”, Celtic Guide, vol. 1 issue 10 Oct. 2012
“Celebrating Imbolc with the Family”, Air n-Aithesc, vol.1 issue 1, Feb.
2014
“The Witch, the Bean Feasa, and the Fairy Doctor in Irish Culture”. Air
n-Aithesc, vol. 1 issue 2, Aug. 2014
“Finding the…
Easter! Time for Necromancy!
Blessings Darlings!
Five days ago was western Easter Sunday. On that day, I attended a class (at Between the Worlds/Sacred Space) by Christopher Orapello on Necromancy. Yes, the folks running that conference UNDOUBTEDLY chose that scheduling. Yes, I’m sure that …
Ask Me Anything – fiction
Its been a while since I did an Ask Me Anything style blog and also a while since I wrote about my fiction so I thought that would be fun to do today. I’ve collected some questions from social media and am answering them here for everyone. Feel free to add additional questions in the comments if you’d like. Nicole: What’s your favorite fictional book that you have written?My answer: That’s…
Theosophy’s Impact on the Pagan View of Fairies
Note: In this piece I’m going to be making some generalizations which may not apply to all neopagans but which do hold true for a majority that I have looked into. A main influence on the neopagan view of fairies, which is rarely acknowledged, is theosophy and more particularly the writings of Helena Blavatsky. Blavatsky herself is a controversial figure, accused of rampant plagiarism by her…
2022 Recap
This year has been a challenging one for me but I kept moving forward, and I wanted to offer a quick recap here for everyone.I had four articles published in magazines this year:
“Imagining Fairyland”, Pagan Dawn, Imbolc issue, 2022 no 222
“The White Elephant in the Room: Racism and Diversity in Fairy Belief”, Witches & Pagans Magazine, issue 39, 2022
“Fairy Queens and Witches”, Pagan Dawn,…
Smokey Saturn’s Day
Blessings Darlings!
Welcome to Saturn’s Day. A Saturn’s Day where I have some Saturnian magic to do. It’s all about business and finances, because IMO my husband has the business skills of a gnat, and needs a lot of Divine Intervention. Divine Intervention starting with Saturn.
So I’m here, in the mid day hour of Saturn, prepping for the … Continue reading…