This week we step out of our ordinary cares and the workaday world. This ancient practice offers a pause, to honor Yule with peace and kindness.
Winter
Soda, Champagne, or Chablis? Let’s Toast to 2023!
New Year’s is a time of very old magic. Prepare by knowing that everything you do on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day is loaded with power.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Today is the final candle lighting if you’ve not yet done it. Advent is over, the promise is kept, the Light has come. Peace and joy to all.
The Candle for the Last Sun Day before Solstice
We’ve come to the last Sun Day and the final candle before Solstice and Christmas. Happy Chanukah, blessed night, we bring now our fourth Light.
It’s Time for a Time Out of Time: The Halcyon Days Have Arrived
In view of the noise, the divisions among us, the ceaseless rancor, and escalating attacks on our principles, we need this ancient time out.
Descending Into the In-between, the Solstice Sun Wheel Turns Eighteen
The Solstice Sun Wheel Advent Ceremony returns for Year 18. Join us, for you and I are the necessary, awaited ones who tend the Light’s rebirth.
Wordless Wednesday: Blessed Imbolc
Each year at Imbolc, John and I decorate and ask blessings for our well, which gives us life here at Laurel Hill Cottage. Thank you to Brighid.
Wordless Wednesday: Sunset at Laurel Hill Cottage
Sometimes we need a quiet moment. Here’s one, after our first snowfall, from our road that leads to Laurel Hill Cottage. We’ve had more snow since.
I Wish You Health! Good Luck! Success! And All that Makes True Happiness
Happy New Year 2022! Here’s what you need to know about this very magical day, for it is certainly one that is full of lore and ancient custom.
Magical Preparations for Crossing the Threshold of the New Year
Out with the old and in with the new! There’s magic on New Year’s in all that you do! Beth Rejoice, my dears! We stand at the crossroads of a new year! I suggest that you spend some time today in sacred space, setting your intention for the shining promise of this new beginning. Supported [...]