I have newly found myself a wife and in the throes of motherhood. In many feminist circles, I have encountered anti-family and anti-wifehood sentiments. The understanding is that to be a wife, and, to be a wife that chooses to start a family, is an oppressive position to occupy as well as the antithesis of […]…
Full Ash Moon Weekend
Wanted to share from my two meditation companions for this weekend’s Full Moon, and some of the magic that came through as I contemplated them~ According to Blake Octavian Blair, this weekend is known as Ash Moon, in reverence of the Celtic Month of the Ash Tree. Pretty cool, right? If that’s new info~on the…
Virgin or Maiden Quickening, this weekend’s Full Moon
Just find this artist’s work simply stunning. Go here and give her a look. https://society6.com/heatherheininge So feeling on the synchronicity of the Virgin image, as we tend the waking Virgin Tide of the Year. This week the moon is in her Gibbous phase. This we might call the Fertility phase of the month (lunation). The peak…
Dear Friends, Breath Offering
Well, after over an hour trying to link GSuite, the platform I use for video, to WordPress, with no luck, I uploaded today’s Imbolc Guided Breath Offering to the Wild Women Wisdom Facebook page. Maybe it’s the Void of Course, maybe it’s the stagnancy of stalled Quickening of Merc in Retro, for sure it’s my…
Shadow Work and Devotion. At Lunar Imbolc.
Devotion. It’s a wrought word, full with personal associations, and so I write it tenderly, for any and all that have been injured by traditions that forced or coerced dogma and rigidity, those direct or indirect punches to the developing, authentic soul. I know about those hits, personally, both from family and culture. I was…
Happy Traditional to Lunar Imbolc: Letting the Tide move you.
Happy traditional Imbolc, friends. I woke up today with a mist in my heart, the kind only satiated by the reliable rhythm languages, the silences and flurries of Mama Earth. It felt like longing, and when I leaned into the feeling I saw myself on a drive around the Tall Pines, this Place where I…
Quickening Full Moon: Lizzie’s Bend in the Road
“The Rowan Moon carries with it the energies and magic of the rowan tree: protection, strength, and success in new ventures. This Moon has deep ties with the goddess Brigid, as she is closely tied to the magic of the rowan…One of the folk names of the rowan is the ‘quicken tree’, as it was…
Small song of incantation, Dreaming Moon
These are mighty mighty times, dear friends. If you have your feet on the street you knew this day would come. Shout Black Feminists 12-13 Twitter underground. Dear birds singing song of change. Riot grl coming through me to write me a thesis to get me here, to follow through with my head and boots…
Winter Solstice. Animism, Ancestor Weekend, the sweet call of Yule Tide.
Backyard just before dawn Wednesday morning, the outlines of bare branches seem almost purple against a heavy gray sky. To the eye all else appears barren, but the intuitive eyes, the heart eyes, the soul eyes–a ripeness of movement motions the air. Some Solstices are deeply still, some you feel the quickening so ripe it…
Wishing Moon for Dark Moon, Dark Season, & Total Solar Eclipse.
Did you know tonight is a wishing moon? The lunation that starts tomorrow is our last one of Autumn. In fact, next Monday when she is 1st quarter, she converges with the Wheel of the Year as the longest night arrives and we welcome the season of Yule…and Return of Light ! Wishing moons, on…