As I watch my daughter splashing around in the pool, I admit I am proud of her swimming ability. My daughter has always been a water baby. She is, however, a SCORPIO water baby, which implies a certain stubbornness when it comes to change and ideas that are not her own. She also came into [...]

I can be hard to surprise.  Which is why it generally takes other Witches to pull it off successfully.  This week, some very dear friends of mine snuck one right past me — Whoosh!
A few weeks ago, we attended the lovely Tennessee Renaissance Festival in Murfreesboro, TN.  We went on Memorial Day weekend, which normally [...]

Being a High Priestess isn’t much different from being any other type of clergy.  I get phone calls when people have bad days, when the shit hits the fan, when tragedy strikes.  I get phone calls on questions of faith.  I suppose the biggest difference in being Craft clergy versus being the standard “organized modern [...]

Ever since I discovered this path (or rather, put a name to the path I was on) back in my teens, there have been people who have preached and pondered and pined for the “world to end” and for things to go back to how they were in “olden days”.  It’s a pastoral dream of [...]

I feel like I’m writing on the edge of the Veil. By the time anyone reads this, the Wheel will have turned with a banshee scream and, hopefully, the heaviness of the season will have lifted. Yet here I am, prepping candy bowls and carving jack-o-lanterns, swaying to an ancestral hymn on the precipice of [...]

WARNING: I’m about to break my grandmother’s long-standing rule by discussing Politics, Sex and Religion all at the same time. If you notice a slight tremor, it’s just Ethel turning over in her grave.
Undoubtedly, politics are a hot topic right now. We’re all worried about getting screwed by the next group of elected officials. As [...]

The evening had all the marks of a good time. Hands were busy with paint and paper. A Celtic reel accelerated in the background, punctuated by scissors snipping in unconscious, yet perfect, rhythm. Feathers, sequins, beads and ribbons were strewn across the table in a way that makes creative people like me sigh with happiness. [...]

I don’t tend to watch the news. As a Witch, I know that my powers of visualization are sharper than most, and I have to be careful upon what I focus my attention. Becoming a mother seems to have intensified the ability to visualize. I’m certain that I’m not the only mother out there who, [...]