Last night I went to a talk given by a local man here in the UK on bees. I was intrigued to find out what people who had been ‘keeping’ bees had to say about them. This guy had been ‘keeping’ them for three years. He had a lot to say, but I left the … Continue reading »
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in-between-time
I am sitting here between a window of darkness and the open fire, with my ancient mac whirring away to deliver the news to me and to send out news to others. Snow lies on the mountain top and there is a frenzy of floodlit activity across the river as dumper trucks pile mounds and … Continue reading »
What have we lost from our ancestors?
Some Inuit looked into the aurora borealis, or northern lights, to find images of their family and friends dancing in the next life. For others they were invisible giants, the souls of animals, a guide to hunting and as a spirit for the angakkuq to help with healing. They relied upon these shamans for spiritual interpretation. The nearest … Continue reading »
Happy Eostre
This is my favourite Easter image. It tells of spiritual awakening, rebirth and renewal of life. We still celebrate Geàrr or Hare; symbol of the goddess, shape-shifting, fertility and intuition, through the Easter Bunny today: “Here the hare is the original “Easter Bunny” – the word Easter being derived from the Saxon goddess Eostre, to … Continue reading »
Drumming
I love this photo from a Scandinavian drumming and drum making site. It captures some kinda wild spirit and woman’s energy we all can connect to. This calls for some kinda celebration of who we are; all connected to the earth, sky and sea through the beat of the drum.
Shaman Spirits
All negative thoughts, shamans believe, are dark spirits speaking to us, trying to scare us into reacting; the spirits then feed on our reactivity, growing stronger and more formidable until they finally rule over us. This is how, Hamilton suggests, addictions and psychological disorders develop in people. “Everyone hears the voices of spirits,” he tells … Continue reading »
Meditation, meteors and thunderstorms.
I haven’t been able to get the words Apollo 13 out of my head for the last few days – I knew that this continued bugging was coming from somewhere deep within, so I started an internet search – well a blog search, actually. This, coupled with a fascination I have had with tracking Mars … Continue reading »
Goose and Reindeer
I have had the most overwhelming desire to hold and look at the animal cards I have. They are not the tarot, but are just animals, but they are beautiful. I mentioned them before. European animals – ones that give me a chill down my spine every time I see a picture of them. I … Continue reading »
more about vocations
Spirituality, the hardest thing is making something of it in the real world – a career out of it, it is so intangible: writing poetry, a novel, working with nature, painting faery paintings, making crafty things, clothes, gardening, even travelling to these mystic places – the problem is we could do all and anyone of … Continue reading »
vocation
I know it sounds silly, I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching recently about what my vocation is in life (guess when its nearly up to 40 you start doing things like this) and also coming to the other side of children, knowing that you will have more time on your hands. I always … Continue reading »
More books…….again!
Going back to witchy roots, places I have travelled before, as the full moon turns to the crescent again, I am going around again: Craft of the Wild Witch………by Poppy Palin Spellcraft for Hedgewitches………by Rae Beth and Poppy Palin 13 Moons: A journal of a Natural Witch………..by Fiona Walker-Craven Seasonal magic: The diary of a … Continue reading »
A Witches Garden
I have been having day dreams about a garden and an allotment in France recently. I have got the urge to dig in the soil again. Because I have been concentrating on touch for the past few days I think already my senses have been heightened a tiny bit because I suddenly have got the … Continue reading »
THE WILD SOUL HUNGERS
Emma Restall Orr’s book ‘Living Druidry’ has been the next book from the bookshelf. And although I have trawled through many different veins and traditions, I keep coming back to the Druid tradition of Emma’s and getting so much from it. So enough about books, I am going to start on a course of tuning … Continue reading »
January moon meditation
This moon is used for cleansing and clearing the personal space and the immediate space around you. This is done by meditation and it is good to do this out of doors where you can start by sitting under a birch tree and then move onto a walking meditation. The aim is to clear the … Continue reading »
Sighting the new moon
I see the new moon first, setting in the evening sky at dusk, clear and then becoming more hazy as she rushes towards the horizon, chasing the sun whom had just set before her. She is a slither of a thing, lying on her back, at 7.30 p.m. Lights of the far village on the … Continue reading »
Sage and Siberia
I am sitting here at 4.30 a.m. unable to sleep. I have let the gluten free diet slide since moving to France, all the delicious bread and cakes are irresistible. However my body is paying the price through sleepless nights and stomach cramps. Time to get back to the old regime. I have so much … Continue reading »
Centre of the circle
I have also been thinking a lot about getting older recently and the crone aspect in me. Before all this magic stuff I was petrified of getting older, watching the wrinkles on my face and wanting to turn back the clock, but recently I am a bit calmer about it all, I am actually starting … Continue reading »
The Wild Wood
I have been gardening like crazy to get the allotment sorted. Gardening brings me closer to the soil and the elements of life and the country and the past – that is what I need to experience for the moment. Every time I think about the summer and the winter and the seasons and the … Continue reading »
Invoking the Goddess
Moon Goddess; ever changing, Wax and wane across the sky, Spell-weaver, hear me calling, Be present by my side. Earth Goddess; undying three-fold, Gentle restorer, please appear As Mother, lover, crone, and sister, My voice calls you here. Sea Goddess; Silent tides swelling, Ebb and flow of enchanted seas, Rise, healer, from sacred waters And … Continue reading »
Fourfold Woman
I have been going around and around as usual in the last couple of days. I could be doing this, I could be doing that, it is always the same and things will never change unless I learn to live with it. Look at any page of my diary for the past ten years and … Continue reading »
Reindeer blessing
Hello blog, this is the first post EVER and the first one for a new year 2004. I hope to have a long and happy blogging life here on this site, it is just a continuation of my private diaries really, I guess. So, as a blessing to this journal here, with the strength of … Continue reading »
