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Friday: Words from Faerie
THE STOLEN CHILD Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the...
How to Choose Crystals & Gems
Good Witches Homestead has created such a pretty site, I want to share it. You will want to click the link, just to explore. This post on choosing crystals and gems seems a good place to start. At this time of year, we tend to try new things. Perhaps, working with...
Friday: Words from Faerie
The whole landscape was a riddle, I thought bemusedly. A puzzle. A trick. Hiding something, maybe, or trying to reveal something. I hadn't a clue which. What could a weedy field or a dying rose tree say? Or a great house with all the life in it forced into two mean...
Friday: Words From Faerie
In the veils between the worlds, I remember the fairy folk who guard the ancient places. May we walk lightly and with courtesy upon the earth, may no being stay their progress or block their path, so that the hidden household of the earth may be peaceful. A prayer...
Winter Solstice: A Festival of Light
Winter is here. We, in the northern hemisphere, feel her enfold us. She is the Ice Queen. Cloaked in black frost, exhaling snowflakes in a great rush of crystal, she ushers us inside and bids us remember who we are. We, humans, are vulnerable to her whims; cannot...
Witches in Scotland?
Witches in Scotland? Methinks I've heard that somewhere before... What are these, So wither’d and so wild in their attire, That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ earth, And yet are on’t? Live you? or are you aught That man may question? . . . Macbeth (1.3.39-41)....
