I love the dark. I also love the dark of the year. I live – on purpose – in a place that has no streetlights, no traffic lights, and no security lights. When my neighbors, who I can barely see, leave their porch light on, I am tempted to shoot it out. Until I moved up here almost fourteen…
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The next book I publish will have a moon on the spine. I am pleased to announce that I have contracted with Llewellyn Worldwide to write a book on folk magic in the Southern United States. For those who attended my Pantheacon 2017 lecture, this is the book. If all goes well, it will publish in Winter 2018. I…
NEW RELEASE! Iris of Avalon, the fourth book in the series, Seven Sisters of Avalon, is now available on Amazon.com in both ebook and paperback formats. Iris is the longest of the four books coming in at five hundred pages. It presented quite a challenge to write because this priestess princess did not have an easy time on her journey. In a new take on…
One day my soul just opened up and things started happening things I can’t quite explain I mean I cried and cried like never before I cried tears of ten thousand mothers I couldn’t even feel anything because I cried ‘til I was numb. One day my soul just opened up I felt this overwhelming pride what I was…
When in doubt, seriously, listen to my late Granny. Granny knows. You had to know my Granny and I am so sorry you didn’t if you didn’t. She was an amazing person and is my greatest “Yes, I actually knew her” hero of my entire life. More on Mary Frances Mitchell in a minute. …And that’s a wrap I…
It is October, right on the brink of the season of the Crone and here I am, crawling over the finish line into my own Cronedom. If life is a marathon, I arrived here with my nipples bleeding, devoid of sweat to lose, and likely having lost control of my bowels at some point. Fortunately, most of this may…
“Well this low down bitchin’ got my poor feet a itchin’. Can’t you see the deuce is still wild? Baby, I can’t stay, you got to roll me and call me the tumblin’ dice.” Rolling Stones I look at how long it has been since I updated this journal and it makes me uncomfortable, but then I think about all I…
As is easy to see, I have not updated here for a long time. There are the “on top” reasons and there are the “underneath” reasons, just as there is with anything. The main on top reason is that a nonprofit organization with which I am involved hosted a major fund-raising festival in June and for a few months before…
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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 since Eric “retired” from…
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 don’t know what I…
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 past several years (likely…
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 systems. FRIDAY, 5:30 PM…
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. Backing up a bit,…
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 load to bear. CUSP,…
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 and the more I…
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 is a form of…
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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 Sign) It’s your time…
