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February 2016

February 20, 2016

The Rantin’ Raven: Westernizing Our Ritual Forms

Here we have a collection of terms and a new ritual, perhaps a new way...

February 17, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Ten Tips for Running a Big, Festival-Style Ritual

Running big rituals is a lot like being a producer, director, and an actor in...

February 14, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: The Faces of Freyja – More Than a Love Goddess

Freyja is the Lady of Love whose entire being sets hearts ablaze with passion and...

February 09, 2016

Witch on Fire: Valentine’s Love Spell

As a special Valentine's Day treat for you, my lovelies, I offer this "Ideal Paramour"...

February 08, 2016

Star Made Witch: Riddle Wisdom

Riddles are a special way of gaining knowledge and power within animist mystical traditions. A...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Witch on Fire: Broom Closets and Bible Belts – 10 Tips For Your Coming Out Party

I'd wager that many of you fine readers have struggled with the problem of being...

January 24, 2016

Wayfaring Woman: Holiness and Hallowing at Imbolc

The holy current that runs through this time of year is profound and its blessings...

January 23, 2016

The Path of She: An Imbolc Meditation – Brigid and the Light and Shadow of Soul Work

Brigid leads you to Her scrying bowl, filled with the waters of Her holy well...

January 22, 2016

Happily Heathen: Offerings For The Gods – Part One – The Vanir

As a practicing Heathen, a key cornerstone of my spiritual practice is the offering of...

January 21, 2016

Wyrd Words: Is Heathenry Incomplete?

Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays, every other week...

January 19, 2016

Irish-American Witchcraft: My American Imbolc

Imbolc is a pretty big holiday for my family and one of the most involved....

January 16, 2016

The Rantin’ Raven: Celebrations of Fire and Ice

Of all the festivals of the Pagan year, Imbolc, February 2, is the most complex,...

January 12, 2016

Witch on Fire: Hermes Gongs the Cosmic School Bell

Lo! As the first moon of my service waned into darkness, I began my quest,...

January 11, 2016

Star Made Witch: Witchcraft and the Grimoire Tradition

A grimoire is a magical book with rituals for contacting spirits, spells, divination and associated...

December 2015

December 31, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: To Santa Claus or Not to Santa Claus? – Evidently that is the Question!

“I told her, mommy,” he says with complete exasperation, “Santa Claus was just God dressed...

December 30, 2015

Making Light: My Little Pony on My Little Altar

Never mind that the unicorns described by Ancient Greeks were actually rhinoceroses, "unicorn horn" was...

December 28, 2015

Star Made Witch: The Power of Scent

Scent is able to summon up mood immediately. The intense memory response of scent can...

December 25, 2015

Happily Heathen: Frithweaving At Yule – A Heathen ADF Ritual For Frigga And Freyr

This year, I had the chance to celebrate Yule in a bigger way than I’ve...

December 22, 2015

Witch on Fire: The Great Work, Holding the Space

As part of my spiritual practice each year I choose an area of study or...

December 20, 2015

The Other Side of the Hedge: Why Is Yule like The Force?

The spiritual importance of Star Wars, at least for me, is that it showed us...

December 15, 2015

Irish-American Witchcraft: Celebrating the Longest Night

It's not a major religious holiday for us, but its the children's favorite and probably...

December 12, 2015

A Winter Solstice Meditation: Ereshkigal and the Great Below

Open yourself to the natural world energies of this longest night of the year and...

December 10, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: A Transgender Perspective on Gendered Mystery Rites

Reducing men's or women's experiences to a biological function is a dangerous oversimplification. There are...

December 08, 2015

Witch on Fire: A Witch’s Carol: A Tale of Three Hauntings

I hope that my story of this haunting, affirms for you that Spirit is universal,...

December 02, 2015

Dandelion Seeds: Push Your Emotional Reset Button with Devotionals

The holidays are hard. In between Black Friday and Solstice Vigil squeeze in some time...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft: Pagan Parenting – Terrorism, World Violence and Ritual

Violence that has shredded this world has an uncanny way of effecting children. As parents...

November 27, 2015

Happily Heathen: A Prayer Of Thanks For Njord And His Children

Thanksgiving has always been very secular holiday for me, so when it came time to...

November 24, 2015

Witch on Fire: A Thanksgiving Transmutation of Tens

Right on cue, I had what some would call a crises of faith regarding my...

November 10, 2015

Witch on Fire: Salvation of a Southern Witch

Gather 'round, my lovelies, and let Mama Heron tell you a story, the back-story, a...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

Witch on Fire: A Wish Upon Dying

My mother was the holy-rolling, bible-thumping, fundamentalist variety of evangelical Christian and basically the polar...