By request. Remember that this is the first draft and is very raw. Many edits yet to come and the book is only around a third done:
Springing Forward
I hate time changes. Why…why must we do it? That aside… There is a section of Google Images that allows you to filter according to parameters such as “available for non-commercial use without modification.” Some pretty cool stuff came up when I looked for a banner for this week’s column: March 21 is a year…
Sorry No More
I had a conversation with a friend yesterday that was one of those time where you are offering someone the exact same advice that you realize you need yourself. She was describing a situation where she had suffered a falling out with a dear friend and told me she had cried to the friend saying, “I…
Thank You GPS
It is not yet the end of February and already, this has been a rockin’ year. Last year was a brutal battle fighting (most with myself, as these things are wont to do) for my own sovereignty and creating space on which I could stand. I have been falling down a great deal over the…
Pantheacon – February 12-15, 2016
Hello All, Eric and Katrina Rasbold are excited to once again take part in Pantheacon in San Jose, California February 12-15, 2016. Their schedule is as follows: FRIDAY, 1:30 PM – WEATHER WITCHERY PRESENTATION This fun discussion covers the best magic to work in particular types of weather conditions, as well as how to call in weather…
Trying Not to Be a Sisy
I originally set up this post on December 13, 2015, which was over a month ago and since then, I have tried several times to get back to it and give it the due it deserves. Perhaps this time, I will make it through. Like for so many others, 2015 was a really rough year….
10 Steps to Successful New Year’s Resolutions
How many times have you made the same resolutions over and over, year after year, each time more determined to succeed and more frustrated and dejected when you do not? How many times do the failures of previous years stand in the way of your success for the coming year? Repeated failures are a heavy…
What Feeds You?
I woke up with morning with words in my head, not the usual song lyrics or dream remnant, but words without attachment to anything in particular. “Even a rat will eventually stop pushing the lever that shocks him and will find the lever that feeds him.” Damn. I have mulled those words for hours now…
Smoke and Mirrors: The Art of Mirror Scrying
I did not believe what my High Priestess told me when she said if you sit in the dark in front of a mirror with nothing but candlelight, you will see amazing things. Of course, not believing it meant I was going to try it as soon as I possibly could, which I did. Scrying…
99 Cent Sale
For a limited time, you can purchase these seven e-book titles for only 99 cents each on Amazon.com. Click on the book covers to follow the links below and get there:
When Horoscopes Are Dead On Balls Accurate
Each week, I get a wonderful horoscope sent to my inbox by Chani Nicholas at http://chaninicholas.com/. After exploring many others, I have found her work to consistently be the best out there and I am happy to share it with you. This week, it was like a gut punch. Virgo & Virgo Rising (My Sun…
Focus in the Dark
On Samhain (October 31) each year, a practice our group adds to our ritual is that we go into the dark earth labyrinth where a large mirror is propped on a table. In candlelight, we look into the Mirror of Truth and then pull a Tarot card from the table where they are spread in…
Aster of Avalon Released Early
I am excited to announce that the third book in the “Seven Sisters of Avalon” series released today on Amazon.com. Book four, Iris of Avalon, is scheduled for release in Fall 2016. In the interim, an updated edition of my flagship book, Energy Magic Compleat is in the works. This edition will include lots of new discussion on…
5 Things I Learned As A Crone
For most of my life, I was the baby in any crowd. It did not help that for a lot of those years, I looked younger than I was. I come from a family of “good skin” and I eat pretty well, so I was often mistaken for being younger than I was. That being…
Regarding Puff: You Be the Judge
A critical analysis of a classic song and its application to marijuana use at Cornell University in the late 1950s. (Is “Puff the Magic Dragon” about pot?)
10 Essential Rules of Pagan Etiquette
If we are lucky, at some point in our Pagan lifetime, we will be invited to visit someone else’s ritual/grove/coven/circle/event to share in their practice. This could be at a public place such as a park or an event center or it can be at a private home or covenstead. In either instance, there are…
Time to Dance Forward
Someone once pointed out that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in heels. Some who are not as old as paint like I am may not know who either of those people are, so here is video evidence of what they did. Things don’t really get nuts in the clip until…
8 Songs That Takes Me To My Higher Self
Yes, that is me, exalted and glowing in my “Higher Self” form. I have felt this communion with Deity, closeness to God, flying of Spirit, raising of consciousness in many different situations. I have felt it in a Christian church, consumed with the power of God and awash in the Holy Spirit. I have felt…
Ego…Where Nice Folks Come to Die
(Reposted from Patheos.com) Out there in the world, especially in, but not limited to, the global Pagan internet community, there is a stream of viciousness that is sometimes hard to endure. There are those who thrive on it. They love to get in there all suited up in their battle gear and ready to defend…
Cutting the Strings
I did a weird thing this year that I have not done in all of the years that Eric and I have practiced CUSP, our spiritual path that involves creating positive life change every single year. The idea is that you plan in the winter, plant in the spring, and harvest your changes in the…
