My personal go-to card spread is based on the Sun Lodge spread and the Celtic Cross. It’s a spiral pattern culminating in a right-handed staff, which represents the elements, Western metaphysical correspondences and the Celtic Pagan year wheel. The the spiral represents body, mind, spirit, emotions and center while the staff position is a riff… Read More
Last Sunday I had an amazing communion with a dragonfly. I was tending my garden beds while my wizard husband tended the yard. Suddenly, a large dragonfly appeared in the air front of me. I snapped to attention because I had not observed dragonflies in my garden till now. I was immediately excited and dropped… Read More
Our garden has been a place of deep healing and learning for me after coming off several decades of Western education and spiritual training. Everything is alive and awaiting to be revealed as I learn to pay more attention to what is happening on the micro and macro levels of life doing what it does.… Read More
After coming off a graduate program that lasted fifteen years and after decades of esoteric study and spiritual training, I have had to ask myself what am I doing now? I am at the point in my life at which I am assimilating large amounts of knowledge and integrating some intense experiences that I have… Read More
The summer season brings a first harvest. Even as we experience another heat wave here in Northern California, the first fruits from our garden have ripened and I have with much delight harvested some of them. Summer harvest is a sacred time of reaping what we have sown during the winter and spring seasons. During these earlier… Read More
The art of spiritual communion is the masterful art of making of relationship with the world around us. We enjoy relationships with others in our family and community, and with our beloved pets and plants everyday, but what about those entities who are not embodied but with whom we share a planet? The Faery are… Read More
I put some seeds into containers today in anticipation of a spring garden. I was waiting until the moon began to wane and was in the astrological sign of Scorpio, a fixed water sign and a perfect seasonal mood to plant new seeds. Of course the witch in me knows that everything in reality is… Read More