Ever go for a good portion of time believing something and then find out it’s just a misunderstanding, a lack of appropriate information, or the result of an outright lie -sometimes all three?  With the exception of the last, most times it’s harmless and easily correctible, but it can be embarrassing if you have passed on the information thinking ( Read more... )

Herbal and Magickal Household Practices

by Gaia IvoryWitch

Garden Variety Banishment and Blessing

Before I move into a place I go and do a 'banishing and blessing'.  This takes care of latent energies but it does not address 'spirits of place' that may predate my habitation.  Those are accepted as part of the house and no attempt is made to 'banish' ( Read more... )

The Wild Hunt » Grey Cat 1940 - 2012

Friday afternoon I went to pick up my husband from work and was listening to my Ipod and "Yesterday" shuffled through, immediately followed by "I Will Remember You" by Sarah McLaclan.  I shivered, wondering if the chill I felt was her touch in passing.  At that moment, the phone rang, my husband on the other end ( Read more... )

Today was an absolutely beautifully cloudless, gorgeous day worthy of Spring...which, according to MY calendar, has not yet arrived.  Mother Nature apparently has other ideas.  She can be a fractious ol' Bitch...well, that's what I call her when she bitchslaps us back into the middle of Winter just after we have taken our tender seedlings out to ( Read more... )

Aset, or as many know Her, Isis, has always been my personal Matron.  I have given service to several others over the years for different reasons and purposes, but She has always been the primary Diety I converse with on a daily basis.  At times, her altar has occupied unlikely spots, simply because that’s where SHE wanted to be.  Usually near ( Read more... )

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I don't have much money these days, but thems the breaks when you're a stay-at- home stepmom.  I'm not really stay at home mom material, nor am I housewife material either.  This just happens to be the period that happens every 10-12 years when I seem to be destined to change careers and figure out how to make money in a totally different way ( Read more... )

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