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 ...

 Back in 2018-ish, I was apart of a circle of witches called the Sisters of the Moon Circle.  Local and in-person.  We met monthly for classes, rituals, and friendship.  During a Fall Equinox ritual honoring Dionysus and Arachne, I taught my sisters how to make protection wards using popsicle sticks and white yarn.  The sticks were the frames and the yarn represented spider's web.   The ritual was inspired by a poem where Arachne's spiders protected Dionysus's grapes from pests.  So I taught them how to make dreamcatcher-like protection wards.  At the time, we raised energy through movement to charge our spider web wards.  To only let in/out the good and the needed, and for the webbing to capture the bad and unnecessary--from us and from others.  We asked Arachne to bless our wards with spiders to consume the nasty energy, and to cleanse the webs when needed.   I've kept mine through the years.  I use my web ward for ...

Yesterday, during the Wyrd Sanctuary's Sunday Circle, we made energy balls.  The focus was more about feeling the energy, especially since some folks have aphantasia and can’t visualize.  I believe this weeks Circle Guide was using what they learned from Neuromagick: Basic Energy Work, Step by Step . My experience turned into something else, as usual.  I closed my eyes and built the ball.  The inside of my energy ball bloomed a big pink rose—not my doing!  I was curious, what did it mean?  Then a car-sized Melissae spirit appeared and entered my window.  The Melissae ("may-lease-ah") are Bee Goddesses, a type of Nymph, Spirits, and Priestesses of Ancient Greek and Minoan pagans (I think Mediterranean in general?).   The Bee Priestesses and Dancers!  In my experience, the Melissae have taken the forms of many different bee species, such as the honey bee, bumblebees, carpenter bees, wasps, and hornets; and they are in service of differen...