Did you hear the vines getting restless last night?  They know you’re coming for them!
This, of course, is the time that most of us chicken out because we don’t feel adequate enough, ready enough, strong enough for the task.  If that’s you right now, I don’t blame you one bit.  I’ve been there and felt [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned that almost everyone has an area of personal negativity that can use a bit of magickal elbow grease.  I also listed ignorance of your own negative tendencies as a risk factor.  Before we get into the nature of negativity, I’d like to talk about personal ignorance and its incredible ability to undercut [...]

I’ve wanted to write this series for a while, but haven’t felt ready until very recently.  I try to write from personal experience and I will say upfront that writing about your own negativity can be hard.  Negativity is not a nice trait, and to be effective at explaining it and helping others with it, [...]

When your need is great and your heart is pure, ask your question.
The answer may come to you in an email, sent by a friend you’ve never met but who knows you’re feeling shaky by the way the wind is blowing when she think s of you.
The answer may come to you in a Tarot [...]

When I was training to be a Priestess around the age of 20, I got involved in online role-playing games.  There were several of us in our training group in college together, and all of us found escape and enjoyment in the early MUSH games online (MUSH stands for Multi-User Shared Hallucination).
These MUSH games were [...]

Fragile, the moment of opening.  Fragile, the bloom of enlightenment.  Fragile, the foot that steps on the path.  Fragile, the wings of the butterfly newborn from an earthbound body.
Teaching the Craft requires an understanding of the fragility of each sacred moment.  Moments where the door to a new understanding can be opened flit past.  In [...]

The Element of Earth is, at once, celebrated and overlooked by many Pagans.  We speak of it with awe.  We campaign to save the Earth.  We call upon its might in our circles.  We honor our connections to the plants and animals that live in harmony with Earth’s cycles.
And many of us still need Earth [...]

METHODS AND DIFFERENCES
There is a difference between performing an invocation upon yourself and having another person of the opposite sex perform the invocation.  I will say that in my personal practice, I use all three of the above levels of energetic connection.
I embody when I am poking fun at things, when I am being deliberately [...]

In a lot of the reading and researching I’ve been doing, many authors discuss drawing down the moon into the body of the Goddess.  I’ve been practicing for a while, so this concept is not new to me.  However, as my curiosity has grown with time, I have not been able to find a good [...]

I have a small ritual that I call The Lady’s Lap.  It is a way for me to write down my worries, fears, prayers, and the things that keep me up at night.  Over the years, this ritual has taken place only in my mind, sometimes on a real actual notepad, and sometimes just a [...]