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One World - One Dream
Today - an important message from my friend, Reclaiming/Feri Priestess, Oak: The slogan for this year's Olympics is “One World, One Dream.” A perfect slogan, a perfect spell for...
Nag Panchami
The wise know that there's neither unity nor plurality - the world is neither one nor many. Just as a piece of rope is mistaken for a snake, the Atman is mistaken as this diverse world. Duality is an ...
Rose Magick: Ritual Incense
Making your own incense is very easy, and using the powerful energy of roses, it will bring a boost to your rituals and magic, especially those rites you wish to keep “sub rosa,” as we have been d...
It's Not Too Late!
If you were wondering if you can still join us THIS AFTERNOON for my Herbs and Magickal Gifts from the Garden workshop, the answer is -- YES!There are still seats for you (maybe even a friend or two)....
Rose Magick - Calling Your True Love
Rose Petal Love Spellfrom The Spells Bible, by Ann-Marie GallagherIntention:To help those who are single and ready for true love send out the magical message that you are now ready to settle down with...
The Rosy Dawn
Howbeit we know after a time there will now be a general reformation, both of divine and humane things, according to our desire and the expectation of others; for it is fitting, that before the rising...
Keepers of the Flame
Contemplate through Me [the Divine Mind], the world and consider its beauty ... See that all things are full of light. See the earth, settled in the midst of all, the great nurse who nourishes all ear...
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Say no longer that God is invisible. Do not speak thus, for what is more manifest than God? He has created all only that you may see it through the beings. For that is the miraculous power of God, to ...
Sunday Poetry
Moonlight -Maxfield ParrishMoonlightby Vita Sackville-WestWhat time the meanest brick and stoneTake on a beauty not their own,And past the flaw of builded woodShines the intention whole and good,And a...
So what?
All this focus on secret societies in the dusty past seems far distant from the sweet flowers in our gardens. Why do we care about Rosicrucians and Freemasons?The rose has a long heritage as a symbol ...
The Rose of Secrecy
For what we do presage is riot in grosse,For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse;We have the Mason Word and second sight,Things for to come we can foretell aright. -- Henry Adamson, The Muses' Threnod...
Saturday Poetry: A Summer Day
A Summer Day by Lucy Maud MontgomeryI.The dawn laughs out on orient hillsAnd dances with the diamond rills;The ambrosial wind but faintly stirsThe silken, beaded gossamers;In the wide valleys, lone an...
The Rose Prevails
Soon the delphinium rises tall, listening to the robin in the pear tree,Silken pansies nestled near the ground hear the flutter of lady bugs flying free,Wildflowers dancing in gorgeous chaos, love the...
Happy Birthday, America!
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family ...
Magical Lavender Recipes
Everyday Elsie by Lora Craig-Gaddis Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram;The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun,and with him rise weeping. -- The Winter's Tale by William ShakespeareHere are a c...
More Lavender Lore
The Love Potion - Evelyn de Morgan, 1903 There are some things after all that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add ...
Litha and Solstice Blessings!
As the sun spirals its longest dance,Cleanse us!As nature shows bounty and fertilityBless us!Let all things live with loving intentAnd to fulfill their truest destiny.-- from a Wiccan Summer Blessing ...
Wishing You a Most Merry Midsummer Eve!
I must go seek some dewdrops hereAnd hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.Farewell, thou lob of spirits;I'll be gone: Our queen and all our elves come here anon.-- From A Midsummer Night's Eve, by Will...
On the Threshold of Solstice
No price is set on the lavish summer;June may be had by the poorest comer. -- James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir LaunfallThis week, we reach one of the major holidays of the year, when the Sun’...
Blessings of the Gemini New Moon
The Fairies Barque by John Anster Christian Fitzgerald Hand in hand let's dance a round,For this place is fairy ground. -- from The Queen of Fairies, anonymousCreating a special meeting place with an...
June Blessings!
June is the sixth month of the current Gregorian calendar and the first month of Summer. June is named for the divine mother Juno (the Greek Goddess, Hera), wife of Zeus/Jupiter. Juno is the protector...
More Altar Ideas
There seems never to have been an uncivilized tribe, race, or nation of civilized men who have not had some form of belief in an unseen world, peopled by unseen beings.-- W.Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy F...
A Doorway of Welcome
© Margaret DeanThe fairy beam upon you,The stars to glister on you;A moon of lightIn the noon of night,Till the fire-drake hath o'ergone you. -- Ben Johnson (1572 –1637)I’ve been suggesting that...
Sunday Poetry
Mist-clad in the light of the moonStarspun seekers - I search for thee!Faery light - I ask thy boonOf branch and thorn and Elder tree!Wood woven creatures, shadow weaversRiver keepers - come to me!Jus...
The Faery Altar
Neither substance quite, nor shadow,Haunting lonely moor and meadow,Dancing by the haunted spring,Riding on the whirlwind's wing… -- from A Faery Speaks by Sir Walter ScottYesterday, I began a discu...
Faery Thimbles
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell,Let it not be among the jumbled heapOf murky buildings; - climb with me the steep,Nature's Observatory - whence the dell,Its flowery slopes - its rivers crystal s...
Gloves of the Good Folk
Foxglove, Foxglove,What do you see?The cool green woodland, the fat velvet bee;Hey, Mr Bumble, I've honey here for thee!Foxglove, Foxglove,What see you now?"The soft summer moonlightOn bracken, grass,...
Weaving Tendrils Between the Worlds
A green tendril weaves through the fabric of time. When animal life first pushed up from the mud of chaos, simple plants were already there to welcome us into the web of life.-- from Mugworts in May, ...
Tarot Card of the Week: May 12 - 18
Page of WandsGrab your coat and get your hatLeave your worries on the doorstepLife can be so sweetOn the sunny side of the street. -- Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh, 1929(Tap. Tap. Tap.) Is this turn...
Iris Flower Power
The garden with its little gate of green,Invites you to enter, and view mysteries unseen,Its vine laden bowers and overhanging trees,The air filled with sweetness, the hum of the bees,The flagged walk...