solstice

It’s time to join together each Sunday through Yule (or Christmas) for our annual Yule Prayer-Spell. Background If you have been a regular reader of mine, you know that for many years now, starting in late November, I invite all my visitors to join together in a virtual prayer circle, or spell weaving.  All spiritual [...]

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Blessings of Litha! Happy Solstice!

by Beth on June 21, 2011

Amazing Grace, how sweet the Earth That birthed a Witch like me. I once was burned, now I survive Was hanged, but now I’m free. T’was grace that drew down the Moon And grace that raised the sea, The magic of our people’s will Will set our Mother free. Rejoice! Rejoice! Blessings of Litha! Happy [...]

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In that simplicity, he bears the seal of Nature and of Art; in that innocence, he signifies the restored world. ~ Arthur E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot – The Sun Today, I have been collaborating with some of the wisest souls in the Tarot world, and we have decided to invite everyone [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week: June 20-26, 2011

by Beth on June 20, 2011

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ~ Cecil Beaton (photographer; stage, film and fashion designer 1904-1980) How very magical! After putting in his most recent appearance during the previous Solstice (Winter [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – So Mote It Be

by Beth on December 22, 2010

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Magical Mother Night

by Beth on December 20, 2010

The walls between the worlds are thinned; The Gods’ might is at its peak, The wights and the dead walk freely among the living. Let us remember them on this Mother Night. – from  a Heathen rite posted on the Internet some years ago, original source unknown. This is the Eve of the Winter Solstice. [...]

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Tarot Card of the Week: Dec. 20-26, 2010

by Beth on December 20, 2010

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – Søren Kierkegaard This Yuletide week promises to be intense and exciting! The Knight of Wands has burst onto the scene! The Wands suit, of course, is about Fire, action, will, and energy. And the Knights of the Tarot are [...]

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The Fourth Candle: For Love, For the Earth

by Beth on December 19, 2010

Today is the last Sun Day before Winter Solstice, Christmas, and Kwanzaa. Tonight, you are invited to join once again (or for the first time) in our Yule/Advent ritual.  For the basic guidelines and our intention, please pop over here. If you are celebrating this rite from a Pagan perspective, then this candle may represent [...]

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The Halcyon Days Begin

by Beth on December 14, 2010

Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all! The brooding and blissful halcyon days! – Walt Whitman Once upon a time, Alcyone was the daughter of Aeolus, King of the Winds, and the wife of Ceyx, King of Thessaly. Alcyone and Ceyx loved each other devotedly and were never willingly apart. Nevertheless, a time [...]

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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Kahlil Gibran From the sorrows of last week’s card, Love is reborn. What a sweet way to enter the final week before Solstice, the darkest time of year for us in [...]

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