Disclaimer: I have written academically/professionally for years. Everything I’ve published has been edited to death. The idea of a blog, raw and unedited, is a new thing for me but this seems the appropriate time to try it out.
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
We just celebrated the Lughnasa Sabbat, the mid-point of Summer. Lughnasa is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and definitely has pagan origins. The festival itself is named after the god Lugh. The name is a combination of Lug (the god Lugh) and násad (an assembly). Later spellings include Lughnasadh and Lughnasa. So
Lughnasa is almost here. The Sun is getting smaller. Time to kill a god, make sacrifices, reap the first harvest. I’m so tired of hearing about black magick, vs. white magick, vs. gray magick. Witches are people and have all the same things going on inside of them as other people. If the best is