Well, guess who's going to be a mermaid for Halloween?  I just pass out candy anyway, so I don't have to worry about walking.  I can slipknot my legs together.  I thought about being a creepy mermaid, like the ones I've been drawing, but since there's a lot of little kids in the neighborhood, I'll be nice and be a pretty one instead. I've already got my aquamarine long fins and scale print leggings.  Next I'll get or make a mask with a blue veil, and some scale arm sleeves.  The mask and veil I can use for spiritual things, too, should I ever feel inspired to honor some Water Entities (which with my connection to water, I'm surprised that I haven't written a ritual for Them yet!). I have non-candy options like pencils, fun erasers, stickers, and little toys, and I'm going to do that again, only this year I'm giving away some of the crocheted pouches and toys that never sold--crows, spiders, foxes, ghosties, and pumpkins.  I may make more, to...

 In the mornings, after my morning hygiene routine, after my first cuppa water and after I get my cuppa tea or coffee ready, I gather my daily supplements in my hand and I plug in/anchor into earth and sun--or  Jörð and Sunna. I sit, holding my supplements in my hands, and breathe. From the energy centers in my body, I plunge them deep down into the earth--deep and wide so no winds can uproot me. I inhale, drawing up that cool energy into my body. I exhale and golden cords flow up, exiting my head, becoming antlers. The antlers go up into Sunna. I inhale bringing that energy down, mixing with the earth energy in my torso. Mixed, it explodes outwards, into my many wings and eyes and astral forms. I focus on my heart center. I inhale those energies and I exhale them out of my body to form a protective sphere. I open a well beneath me--Source Energy. I inhale, drawing that energy up into my body, and perform a scan. I ask my body what it needs and let it show me, if any...

 The night before we left for our out-of-state trip, my eldest comes to us with a friend.  The friend was there to make sure my son told us about an infection on his leg.  An infection he didn't tell us about because he was trying to take care of it himself...with soap and bandaids.  He said it was a bug bite.  He and I are both really allergic to flea and mosquito bites--they turn into blisters and blister clusters.  That's what I saw on his leg.  Big nasty blister clusters.  I told him to wash it with dawn dish soap, and then we treated it with alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, and neosporin, and bandaged it up.  I gave him an ibuprofen and had him elevate and ice his leg for that swelling.   He was embarrassed, and I told him not to be.  I taught him the appropriate steps to take, and I made a note that included these steps for the kids and put it in our First Aid cabinet, as well as in big letters TELL MOM AND DAD, DON'T HANDLE A...

  August 4, 2026 - Honeysweet Altar Last night's ritual and omen went pretty smoothly!  The only issue that I really had was with the omen.  Channeling Apollo, I suddenly couldn't read.  I could read the cards and the keywords, but I couldn't read the card meanings in the book.  It was just letters in groupings--you know, words.  I couldn't read them.   I also struggled with the Five of Jars--which the artwork makes it pretty simple, plus I've been reading tarot for 10 years, and last night I couldn't figure out what it meant.  Ace of Swords, too.  It was bizarre.  After I put the book down--which a quiet Apollo suggested that I grab--then I had a BINGO moment. Apollo said this was going to be a Past Present Future reading. Jumper Card was the Past: The Hermit. Being/feelin alone. Five of Jars - Present - Loss. In the card, the Mourner is focused on what she's lost and can't see what she still has. Ace of Swords - Future - Mental...

 Tonight at 10pm, on zoom , I'm doing my Midsummer Honeysweet Ritual for Virtual Fire Proto-Grove .  We'll be honoring Bees and Apollo.   The working is a Gratitude Jar and starting to fill it with good things that can sustain you through your dark times and/or SAD, as sweet nourishing honey sustains bees through the cold months. For it you'll need: -A jar, a little box, an envelope, or crochet a hive or a hive cell pouch. This will be your Gratitude Hive to store your honeysweets. -Paper -Something to write with -Draw a Hexagon–6 sided shape–a hive cell. Make it large enough to write or draw inside of it. -Start thinking about things that bring you joy, healing, hope, courage, strength, and peace. Things the can nourish and heal you. -If it helps, ask yourselves and/or divination: -What am I grateful for? -What sweetness is in my life? -How can I gather this sweetness? -What does this sweetness offer me? You can write out sentence or even make a sigil, bindrune,...

 Rabbit Rabbit! If you do the Cinnamon Money Door thing, here's your reminder! August 1, 2026 - Midsummer Honeysweet! Hail the Melissae! Hail Bee Entities! It's finally August, and I'm feelin great.  Still can't hear the Bees, but that's fine.  Again, the ritual focus this year is going to be on Apollo.  I've got a High Day ritual to host in three days and I'm glad to report that I do have inspiration to write it. We got back from a 6 day family reunion/vacation on Thursday.  The hubs side of the family went to the Smoky Mountains, near Pigeon Forge, TN, to a cabin.  It was lovely.   16 person cabin for our 21 Well worth the money and the heat.  Got to unplug--well, I did, there was a day when everyone was glued to a screen--TV/phone.  We paid all that money and traveled all that way just for yall to stare at screens?  We had a butt load of table top games, a pool, a hiking trail, a hot tub, an awesome screened-in deck with a beauti...

 As Lynyrd Skynyrd sings in Sweet Home Alabama , "Big wheels keep on turnin / Carry me home to see my kin" which eventually yes, we will be seeing our ancestral kin because that's how time and cycles work.  The Wheel of the Year turns again and we are days away from August 1st - Midsummer and Honeysweet .   I'm both excited and not.  I dunno, every since the 12th the energy's been weird, and I don't know if it means anything yet.  Then again these are interesting times we're living in--an unconstitutional war, ICE killing and kidnapping innocents on the streets, parasitic produce, etc. Here's a post about cleansing and grounding , which I strongly encourage yall to do. I'm also not hearing honey bee spirits or The Melissae, which is odd for me this time of the year.  I did purchase a wasp toy from The Dollar Tree though--on a whim.  Wasps are powerful protectors and cursers.  But minus doing omens for Virtual Fire, things are pretty quiet for...

Oooffff, heavy energy is in the air. I first felt it on the 12th, and it's steadily being getting heavier and heavier. Cleanse and ground, yall. Check your protections. Redo them if you need to. Take care of yourselves and look out for your neighbors and communities. I took a cleansing shower to rid myself of some of this heavy energy. In my bathroom I have a large plastic cup dedicated to shower cleansings. I add a pinch of Pink Himalayan Salt and 4 pinches of epsom salt to the cup. Pink for self love and healing and 4 pinches of regular epsom salt for cleansing and the Kindreds Three and the Spirits. I add warm water, swirling the mixture clockwise, and I wait for any Deities to come forward. Majority of the time it's Shiva the Destroyer and Óðinn. Sometimes it may be Eir, Hekate, Sunna, Sister Moon, or an Earth Mother, which for me has been Jörð. Tonight it was Shiva and Óðinn. Holding the cup up, I asked for Blessings over the water. May it cleanse me of all unwanted ...

 Today marks 1 year of us bringing Queen Jimmy Ventress inside of our home and lives. She arrived on July's full moon (9th or 10th) 2025 and decided that she lived here.  She was thin, super preggo, and loving.  Not shy at all about laying on me and letting the kids and their friends pet her.  At one point, Ventress belonged to our Crazy Cat King neighbor next door, who was known for having a bunch of cats indoor and taking care of the ferals and strays.  He'd often take in preggo cats and then when the kittens were adults, he'd try to find them homes or release them back outside.  According to him, Ventress was about 1-2 years old and an experienced mother. We started feeding her bone broth and cat food. July 15, 2025 A friend took her to the Humane Society, where they aborted the litter, spayed, and treated her for fleas and ear mites.  We thought she was going to be put up for adoption or stay with a foster.  Nope, after a couple of days she wa...