Blessings for Samhain everyone! I will be out of town for the celebrations for a few days. Take care and have a happy Celtic new year. Since I am doing a workshop on shamanic rattles and the Silver Branch for Samhain:

The Dedication To A Book Of Stories
by William Butler Yeats

There was a green branch hung [...]

Here is an excerpt from my journal, about on of my first Soul flights (slightly edited and shortened) it is a few years old now:
I was trying to visualize an entry in the earth when, suddenly I am in a cave. It is a massive cave, made of grey and black rough rock; the floor [...]

A Witch’s Work is Never Done
Some projects I am currently working on:
* A black robe
* A new cloak
* A workshop on shamanic rattles and bell branches
* The website, of course
* Waiting for bears to go hibernate so I can get into my future ritual area. Wind chimes will be hung and solar lights will be [...]

“If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.” Frank Zappa

“Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.” Aleister Crowley

“Modern morality and manners suppress all [...]

There Peggy was dancing with Dan
While Maureen the lead was melting,
To prove how their fortunes ran
With the Cards ould Nancy dealt in;
There was Kate, and her sweet-heart Will,
In nuts their true-love burning,
And poor Norah, though smiling still
She’d missed the snap-apple turning.
On the Festival of Hallow Eve.

Snap-Apple Night, by Irish artist Daniel Maclise in 1833

An ancient Elder stands alone
With dark-leafed ivy overgrown:
Thick perfume, and the milky white
Flowers in the growing night.
Here in the bark your eye may trace
The outline of a wizened face,
But few are those who’ve lived to see
Who lives within the Elder tree.
A Danish king with men four score
Came to England to make war;
They fought their way [...]