Posted on May 1, 2019
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I noticed that I don’t tend to blog about Beltane? I was puzzled by this as I always celebrate Beltane. Some years that’s a full blown ritual. Some years it’s quiet contemplation. The year Pagan Portals: Celtic Witchcraft was released, I took the hopes…
Category: followers, Nature, observation, pagan, society, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: bealtaine, beltaine, Beltane, blogging, books, festivals, magic, magick, may, May Day, pagan, pagan federation, paganism, summer, sustainability, Witchcraft, writing
Posted on January 10, 2019
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See the hole right through the middle? That’s what makes this a witchstone, or hagstone. Traditionally associated with magic, they are used as protection from various evils, including to protect sailors from drowning. The hole is formed by the ocean and the particles therein…
Category: mythology, Nature, observation, pagan, society, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: amulets, folklore, hagstone, magic, mythology, nature, ocean, pagan, prose, protection, sea, spirituality, witchstone, writing
Posted on December 1, 2018
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This poem was written for Sue Dudley, one of the winners of a competition during the Pagan Federation Beltane Online Festival. Sue was happy for me to share the poem that she inspired. I just never got around to it until now! I am…
Category: Nature, pagan, poetry, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: Beltane, competition, nature, online festival, outdoors, pagan, pagan federation, paganism, poetry, Wicca
Posted on October 4, 2018
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A wand. My wand, actually. Rosewood bark is hard to draw!
Category: art, pagan, Uncategorized, WitchcraftTags: art, drawing, ink drawing, inktober, inktober2018, spell, thursday, wand, Witchcraft
Posted on September 22, 2018
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Joyous Alban Elfed, the light on the water. Happy first day of autumn, according to many almanacs. Merry Mabon, to those who honour this name. Happy Harvest Home, the last grain being stored. However and why ever you celebrate, may this moment of balance…
Category: mythology, Nature, pagan, seasons, Uncategorized, WitchcraftTags: alban elfed, autumn, autumn equinox, equinox, fall, harvest festival, harvest home, mabon, magic, pagan, paganism, ritual, seasons
Posted on July 20, 2018
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Venus. Image processing by R. Nunes. I’ve been learning a little bit about planetary magic over the past couple of weeks, courtesy of some daily devotional work to Hekate. I had a lovely little conversation this morning with my eight-year-old son, Nathan, which reminded me…
Category: pagan, parenting, Uncategorized, WitchcraftTags: beauty, children, Friday, Friday Feeling, Friday I'm In Love, goddess, Hekate, indie, love, magic, magick, music, occult, parenting, planetary magic, planets, rock, the cure, venus, Witchcraft
Posted on April 26, 2018
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A while ago I wrote a poem as part of a devotional month of work undertaken by many devotees of Hekate. Titled Soteira, I always intended to turn it into a song, however the poetic structure didn’t quite fit with the music that came…
Category: Music, pagan, poetry, Uncategorized, Witchcraft, writingTags: cosmic world soul, GloPoWriMo, GloPoWriMo 2018, Hecate, Hekate, magic, music, napowrimo, NaPoWriMo 2018, pagan, paganism, poem, poems, Poet, poetry, poets, song, soteira, spirituality, writing
