Archives: May2009

• Wish Me Happy Birthday!!!

   
   
  See you after the weekend folks!

• Correspondences: Step One Towards Figuring it Out for Yourself

  Correspondences: Figuring it Out For Yourself
  Many years ago, people had no microscopes or laboratories to tell them what to use a certain plant for. They relied on shamanic practitioners and their own daring to discover the properties and uses of the plant life that grew around them.
  Here is an exercise to help you see what it must have been like for early humans learning about our world.
   
  Choose one culinary herb, your choice, fresh if possible but dried is fine. It [...]

• I’m On My (Pagan) Way

  I’m on my way, from ignorance to enlightenment today
  I’m on my way, from ignorance to enlightenment today
  I’m on my way, to what I want from this world
  And years from now, I’ll make it to the next life
  And everything that I receive in the yonder
  Is what I gave to the world in this life
  I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday
  I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday
  I took the road that brought me to a Goddess
  I [...]

• “Not I” Said the Witch

  “Not I” Said the Witch
  (Based on a children’s folk tale called Little Red Hen or “Not I”, Said the Cat)
  Once upon a time, a Hedgewitch was working on her farm when the spirits there reminded her of a promise she had made; to give up the use of some of her land for her fellow pagans and witches. They informed her they wanted to hold a celebration right there on the farm as a way to begin.
  So the Hedgewitch phoned [...]

• Spirit of the West Druid Gathering

  I will be attending the Spirit of the West Druid Gathering June 12 – 14 in Alberta, Canada.
   
  I’ll be vending, selling some of my arts and crafts, as well I might enter the Second Annual Spirit of the West Eisteddfod – a Bardic gathering and competition. Entering some of my poetry *yikes*
  Get your tickets by the end of the month folks. Hope to see you there!

• Dancing with the Ancestors

  Dancing with the Ancestors
  “Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.” ~ Ralph Ellison
  “Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one” ~ Howard Kenneth Nixon
  Contacting the ancestors is about a few different things; it is about honouring our beloved dead, it is about being connected with our roots and [...]