As the wheel of the year turns, may your heart be filled with the joy and blessings of Yule!
Yule Blessings 2024
Samhain Blessings
"As the wheel turns, may you honor the past and embrace the future. Blessed Samhain."
Ostara/Vernal Equinox
As the wheel of the year turns and we welcome the spring equinox, we embrace the festival of Ostara, a time of renewal and rebirth. Ostara, named after the Germanic goddess of spring and dawn, represents the awakening of the earth, the return of fertility, and the burgeoning of spiritual energy. This period is characterized... Continue Reading →
Happy Winter Solstice!
May the solstice spark a season of love, laughter, and abundant joy in your life. Happy Winter Solstice! Wishing my friends and supporters all the best for the coming year. I will be taking a break from posting until after the New Year.
Happy Halloween and Samhain Blessings
All Hallows’ Eve BY DOROTHEA TANNING Be perfect, make it otherwise. Yesterday is torn in shreds. Lightning’s thousand sulfur eyes Rip apart the breathing beds. Hear bones crack and pulverize. Doom creeps in on rubber treads. Countless overwrought housewives, Minds unraveling like threads, Try lipstick shades to tranquilize Fears of age and general dreads. Sit tight,... Continue Reading →
Lughnasadh/Lammas Blessings
This is a time of fairs and the last month before school starts, so create some customs to remember… Enjoy a country fair, enter the baking contest, or just go to remember what it was like for our ancestors. Fairs for them was a time to get together and have some fun before the real... Continue Reading →
Beltane/May Day 2023
A delicate fabric of bird song Floats in the air, The smell of wet wild earth Is everywhere. Oh I must pass nothing by Without loving it much, The raindrop try with my lips, The grass with my touch; For how can I be sure I shall see again The world on the first of... Continue Reading →
Ostara/ Spring Equinox
Symbols of Ostara~~Colored eggs, baskets, green clothes, shamrock, equilateral cross, butterfly, cocoons, sprouting plants; violets, lily, spring wildflowers, new clothes, lamb, hare/rabbit
Autumn Equinox
The golden-rod is yellow; The corn is turning brown; The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. The gentian's bluest fringes Are curling in the sun; In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun. The sedges flaunt their harvest, In every meadow nook; And asters by the brook-side Make asters in... Continue Reading →
Lammas ~Lughnasadh 2022
"Now is the time of the First Harvest, when bounties of nature give of themselves so that we may survive. O God of the ripening fields, Lord of the Grain, grant me the understanding of sacrifice as you prepare to deliver yourself under the sickle of the goddess and journey to the lands of eternal... Continue Reading →