Category Archives for "Wicca"
My newest novel goes on sale today, and I’ve shifted from four months of writing, rewriting, polishing and proofing, to thoughts of selling. Force of habit. I’d been planning to hold off releasing it until Tuesday September 4th, because everybody knows a Tuesday release has the best chance of hitting a big list. And because […]
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Beltane Ritual and Magic Below! May 1st, May Day, Beltane, is traditionally celebrated as the marriage of the Goddess and the God. It represents the fertilization and impregnation of the earth by the sun. And it’s the perfect time for fertilizing our own projects, goals, and lives with this same wonderful springtime power. In the […]
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It’s Spring! I swear it is. Even here in the Northeastern US where we’ve had 4 major snowstorms in the past 3 weeks of March. (Full disclosure: The most recent one missed me.) But the energy of spring isn’t just about the weather systems. It’s about the energy inside us. See the seasons are a […]
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It’s the Winter Solstice! This is one of my favorite holy days, because it symbolizes the power of light over darkness and proves that life is eternal. In the middle of winter, it’s dark and it’s cold where I live. The trees are all bare, the plants have all withered, and the grass is covered […]
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Samhain (sow’-en or sometimes sow-een’) is not Halloween. It’s the old Celtic cross-quarter date on which Halloween is loosely based. The ancient Celts divided their year according to astronomical cycles. They recognized, (we think): The Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, and Autumn Equinox as the 4 quarters of the year, and the dates halfway in between […]
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Ohhhhh, I love this morning. It feels as if last night’s spectacular sunset ushered in the change. After a week of mid-to-high 80s, warm water for swimming, afternoons so hot we had to do our outdoor things in the mornings and evenings, the change has come. It dropped cool, into the high 40s overnight here […]
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This is my promised follow up to last week’s 3 Steps to Successful Wish-Making, in which I’ll teach you how to easily and quickly ritualize your wishing. When you launch a desire, it’s a thought on its way to becoming thing. Any time you focus on your wish in a positive way, you add […]
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Wishes are real, just as we believed they were when we were children. This post isn’t a metaphor. This is the science of how to make wishes come true. A wish is our heart’s desire, our soul’s yearning, our most delicious dream. It might be for something we want to have; a physical thing […]
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It’s been a long winter, and while it was mild a lot, and brutal a little, it always seems to get awfully heavy around this time of year. And then it happens. Just when it seems darkest, just when 3 feet of snow have fallen and the past few days have been the coldest of […]
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