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Mama Earth and Grandmother Moon
Blood Mysteries and the New Moon
The Power of our MoonTime In my former women's group, we talked about so much but after a while I noticed that there was a subject we rarely discussed — our periods, known by many names such as MoonTime, Flow, and even "the curse". This omission somewhat surprised me. Were they embarrassed? Or perhaps it was that many of us were post-menopausal...
What is your moon story?
I love the serendipitous quality of learning, how a word from someone or an image one stumbles upon can lead us to a new thought, a new question, a new direction... or a paradigm shift in one's own thoughts. I experienced this again in the last couple of weeks, when a...
Celebrate your Self on Valentine’s Day
Do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? Some see this holiday as a purely commercial event, a “Hallmark moment”, focusing only on romantic love and partnerships, flowers and chocolate, and candlelit dinners. As for me, I look at Valentine's Day as a soul work...
Happy New Year to the Trees
Pomegranate bud image by PixHouse, Getty Images Signature, via CanvaPro I love how so many cultures and faiths celebrate the seasons of Mama Earth and Father Sky in their religious and spiritual holidays. Many have holy days and festivals associated with the Spring...
Divination practices for Imbolg
Each festival in the Wheel of the Year has some sort of divination practice associated with it, perhaps because the veils between the realms were always considered to be thinnest at the fire festivals, making it easier to communicate with the realms of ancestors, the...
Creativity: the Brighid – Lugh connection
On February 1st (the traditional date), we celebrate the fire festival of Imbolg (aka Imbolc) in the Northern Hemisphere and Lúnasa (aka Lughnasadh aka Lammas) in the Southern Hemisphere. Rather than looking at these as different events, let us consider the...
New Moon Candle Magic for Brighid
New Moon in Aquarius January 21 @ 20:53 UTC, 12:53 pm PST, 3:53 pm pm EST, January 22 @ 9:53 am NZDT Imbolg Can be celebrated on February 1st, 3rd and/or 5th! Celebrate the New Moon in Aquarius with a candle blessing for the Celtic goddess Brighid or Saint Brigid, a...
2023, a year of 13 moons
Women have a special connection with Grandmother Moon. She is associated with all the divine feminine qualities such as nurturing, intuitive, cooperative, being rather than doing, creative, emotional and focused on one's inner world. And the energies our menstrual...
The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come
On the Darkest Night by Stephanie Law The period between Samhain and Winter Solstice was recognized by my Celtic ancestors (and likely many ancestors around the world!) as a time when the veil between this physical world and the...
The Pagan Spirit of Winter Solstice
Solstice is here! Solstice Blessings! Solstice arrived earlier today, December 21st, at 03:27 UTC, manifesting as Winter Solstice north of the Equator (and the beginning of astronomical winter) and as Summer Solstice south of the Equator (marking the beginning of...
Celebrate your Herstories on January 6, Nollaig na mBan
A few years ago, I started celebrating with a special practice to close the Winter Solstice season: Nollaig na mBan (Women’s Little Christmas in Irish, roughly pronounced null-ig nuh mahn), traditionally observed on the 12th Day of Christmas,...
Solstice Practice: 12 Omen Days for 12 Months
Several years ago, I started to observe not just the 12 Days of Solstice (and/or Christmas) but also a lovely ritual and divination process for the new calendar year (or coming months) known as 12 Omen Days, a traditional Celtic practice from the people of Wales and...
Craft and Ritual: a Solstice Wishes Pinecone
This is a lovely craft for Solstice, which can be done on your own or with your family and friends, each creating their own wishing cone with their hopes and dreams inserted and held for the coming year. And you can add a little magic and ritual by sending those...