Make a hearth a home at Yule

Under the disseminating moon, which is the phase after she is full, it came in kitchn witchn so I moved into apple medicine with some mulled apple cider to consecrate my hearth. I had recently started my practice again. For me that’s a recovery term about day at a time living which includes sacred prayer…

Time out of time, on the 13th moon~

So frens if ya feelin a bit witchy, this moons for you To my earth walk, our time is sort of out of time as this is the 13th moon of the lunar year. Meaning this a time to activate the magic of the 13th moon concept: Inherent to women’s mysteries is the deep descent…

Happy Lunar Samhain

The body is also very truthful. You know from your own life that your body rarely lies. Your mind can deceive you and put all kinds of barriers between you and your nature; but your body does not lie. Your body tell you, if you attend to it, how your life is and where you…

Ancestor moon til now

In the morning when I slip out of bed I am not thinking alchemy, only quiet now make no sound. I am tired, the kind of tired that makes me angry, and hormonal, the kind that keeps me up. I am practiced in compassion for this but running low on time to practice my basics,…

Samhain Season arrives! So we enter Veil Tide

Katie got me the rose potion when she came to see me after baby grl was born. It was so touchingly warm and sentimental without being weepy or too much. The mild, loving thoughtful ways she showed her love and caretaking for me, the initiation. So generous and warm and soft and laughy. Just right….

Dark moon to Lunar Samhain, blessed be~

We spent the Equinox moon in a tiny cabin on the top of a mountain in Deep Creek because it felt like the kind of trip we could easily bring the baby. It is the second time this year that on a Sabbat we were away in the woods, ready to play. Since, the weather…

New Moon Manifesting for Second Harvest

New Moon this past Sunday evening:  blessed Visioning to you all dear friends~ And with that, the practical Way of this.  Learning to trust your Wisdom within by allowing pause to review What Is.   Meaning, the past weekend marked the end of the final lunation of Summer.  The growth of the Season was held…

Like wheels on the peninsula road

The heat breaks the same day Katie finally comes. To her it still is a monster, the beaked salt runs of humidity hang from her chin, pool in the crevices and spaces around our necks and eyes–she calls it Maryland heat and I make no mention how odd to me it is that nearby as…

short poem for lammas tide

lammas tide comes gentle, behind the wind where it’s still gentle, and we sleep and the earth covers us in her grass and we are still, and the flowers grow straight from our skin and when i look out the window thereare four wild turkeys, they mark the corners, it is blessed as swallowtails aside…