All Hallows’ Eve or Samhain, a time known when the veil between our world and the spirit world dissolves into one, so a perfect time for a road trip. Read more
All Hallows’ Eve or Samhain, a time known when the veil between our world and the spirit world dissolves into one, so a perfect time for a road trip. Read more
The last month of summer has arrived, and with it the last flowers of the season to my woods. Summer may be near it's end, but the magick and beauty these last flowers bring makes for an easier transition. Read more
The Moth is of the Lepidoptera family, with 11,000 here in United States alone. Moths like bats and owls being a creature of the night, and a known familiar of the witch... Read more
Homeopathy in essence is the belief of the body being able to cure itself by the use of minute amounts of plants and minerals, or by their vibrations to bring about balance and rejuvenation within the body and mind. Read more
“From my rotting body flowers shall grow, and I am in them and that is eternity.” Edvard Munch Read more
Forsythia... how I await your return this year. Soon her blooms will burst forth within my woods and assure me of spring's arrival. Forsythia is one of the very first flowering shrubs to arrive here, used traditionally to decorate the altars of Ostara and Beltane celebrations. Read more
March the 25th brings upon us the Day of the Cailleach, or in actuality the end of this hag's reign. Although folklore tells in other versions she is to end her time on St Patrick's Day, also being known as La na Caillch, Auld Wife's Day, or Day of the Lady. Read more
The Spring Equinox is about the blossoming of fertility, sexuality, growth, and an awakening of both the flora and fauna. For my woods this time has yet to arrive, so in it's stead I must go to other realms, by way of the hare... Read more
It is rumored in folklore that the witches of days gone by where taught the wisdom of the wortcunner and herbal lore by the magickal folk... the fae, elves, and spirits of the wood. The word wortcunner is defined by the word Wort meaning “root,” or herb,” and cunning (from the Middle English cunnen) meaning “to know.” A wortcunner is not simply a herbalist or one who uses herbs, but in it's stead one who has been touched by the plant spirits, and thus gaining a hidden knowledge, and the ability to use that knowledge for magickal intent. Read more
The Sun is brilliance, abundance, intensity in its warmth and rays, and success in its influence. It is then from Winter Solstice to Summer Solstice that we work with this firey star, as this is when solar energy is growing, and at its strongest. Read more
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