Reflections on my journey with Mama Earth and Grandmother Moon
Words can't describe how thrilled I was ("over the moon" comes to mind!), when Jules Ostara, the brilliant creative mind behind Thrivetrue.com, invited me to be a guest contributor in her amazing new course: Art as an Altar: Celebrating Life through Creativity. Sacred Celebrations As a devotee of crafting moon altars, seasonal offerings, and festive displays throughout… Continue reading Introducing Art as an Altar
Join your family, friends and SiStars in celebrating your collective herstories on Nollaig na mBan (“Women’s Little Christmas” in Irish) on January 6th, aka Twelfth Night. For those of you not familiar with Women’s Little Christmas, Nollaig na mBan (roughly pronounced "noll-igg-nah-mawn") is an Irish tradition from days of yore marking the end of the… Continue reading Celebrate your herstories
It's a new calendar year and I'm feeling the need for change, once again. Each year, as I mark the 12th day of solstice, I find it even more challenging to leave the soul-stice time of reflection and renewal. This year, much is still churning deeply within me .. a call for change, rethinking how I… Continue reading Happy New Year 2024!
Winter Solstice 2023: December 21 at 7:27 pm PDT / December 22 at 03:27 UTC For me, Winter Solstice has always had a witchy and pagan essence to it, associated with tales such as that of Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas, of flying reindeers and benevolent creatures gifting children around the world in one… Continue reading Winter Solstice, a time of no time
This is such a special time of the year for me, as we step into the season that begins at Samhain and ends at the Winter Solstice. It is a new beginning, a new immram (a spiritual journey in Old Irish), a new cycle in the ever turning wheel of the year. Those in the southern hemisphere… Continue reading A Ritual for the Closing of the Veils
Samhain, aka Samhuinn, is for me the most powerful point in what many call the Wheel of the Year (one could argue it is two wheels, but that is another story). It marks the beginning of a new turn of the Wheel and a new cycle that brings in the knowledge and wisdom of all… Continue reading The winter goddess energies of Samhain
Beginning at sunset tonight, we celebrate the traditional date for Samhain in the northern hemisphere and Bealtaine in the southern hemisphere. Also known as cross-quarter dates (the midpoints between Equinoxes and Solstices, and vice-versa) and fire festivals, they marked new seasons for our Celtic ancestors.The dates were likely not fixed precisely as are the now… Continue reading When will you celebrate Samhain?
This is most definitely a powerful lunar month. At this time of transition here in the north, as the leaves fall and the branches become bare, the sky and stars bring us many new energies, with solar and lunar eclipses at the new and full moons, and very soon we step into the energy of… Continue reading Full Blood Moon in Taurus
Autumn Equinox: September 22 @ 11:50 pm PDT / September 23 @ 06:50 am UTC I love these liminal transformation days when summer transforms into autumn. For this is a time of (re)turning to our deep inner Wisdom, the energies of autumn, reconnecting to our emotions, looking for balance after the fire-y summer season and welcoming… Continue reading Celebrating with the goddesses of Autumn
At Autumn Equinox, we celebrate the astronomical beginning of the Autumn Season. As you likely know, the word equinox comes from the Latin words for "equal night", and we trust that it is so. But on the actual Equinox date, the days and night are not precisely equal. But reach a balance it does. Very close… Continue reading Equinox or Equilux
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