The Yule Vigil takes place on the longest night of the year. This year in the Northern Hemisphere that night is tomorrow night, the 20th. That is the night that we pray the Sun/Son to return to us. In fact, it is called a vigil because we literally stay awake all night. Not only do […]
Off they go, singing “12 Days of Christmas” without a clue what that song is celebrating. On the surface the song is about the 12 days of the Yuletide Season. Those 12 days predate the Christian dominance in Europe. They date back to the Teutonic/Germanic celebration of the Winter Solstice, Yule. The tribes and clans
On this day of Thanksgiving I need to extend my heartfelt thank you to all of my followers. The last few months I’ve been blown away as my follower number got bigger. I’ve come up with a way to say thank you, at least to some of you. I’m going to do a give-away of
Here’s something that has bugged me for a while. In our modern world we have totally forgotten that we’re supposed to honor our Elders. Young people have always dissed their elders. That has always been the case. And they’ve always been admonished to respect their elders (5th Commandment, Honor thy father and thy mother, Exodus
I am Southern. Being a witch doesn’t make me any less Southern. I was raised with a lot of Southern traditions, quite a few that surrounded death. As the South becomes more & more a part of a much larger cultural pattern (US, global) so many of those traditions are falling by the wayside. That’s
Having celebrated a magickal life for so long I am no stranger to the idea that there is a lot of mundane magick being performed all the time. This year of no formal magick has made me keenly aware of how much mundane magick I do all the time. Most work, both in the house
Here’s an old superstition, the number 13 is bad luck. What a pile of horse hockey! I don’t know, or much care, how others feel about the number 13, but it’s my power number. I was born on February 13th, and it goes from there. I look forward to Fridays that are on the 13th
Over the years I have gone out of my way to keep politics off my website. I have been mostly successful. The recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and the people who started dancing on his grave didn’t change my attitude about the website. Instead it made me think of a vow I took oh so
I read am book. I advise reading to everyone. This particular book put me into deep thought about where I stand on vaccinations, and big pharma in general. As a Wiccan/Witch I am an herbalist. Herbalism is basic witchcraft 101. I’ll choose natural remedies over pharmaceuticals almost all the time. Watching the pharmaceutical industry over
Between medical tests and family events I’ve been a bit busy and haven’t posted a blog in a couple of weeks. But here’s something else that bugs the crap out of me – what time of days should a rite be celebrated. The answer to that goes back to the old days, too. Work had