Wednesday, Sept 23rd, I'll be leading a ritual for Persephone's Descent, as I've done for many years outside of ADF and a couple of years for Virtual Fire.  I'm still working on writing a script for this year.  Persephone's being fairly quiet right now, but I do feel like Molly Remer's Return may be of significance.  At least for me.  A Return to Home Within Ourselves.   Twice a year, Persephone returns home.  Home above ground with life in each step.  Home underground with decay in each step. This concept is something that my Spiritual Mothers seem to be stressing at the moment.  Other than the art focus, but then art is also home for me.  I love art--photography, drawing, painting, sculpture, writing, fiber arts, baking, party planning.  Even when I was a little kid, my mom had given me these old falling apart Disney art history books.  I loved them!  I remember drawing the tiny worlds of mice living in our walls ...

 On Thursday, I attended a guided meditation with my friend Hawth Reiter .  I've attended many of his dark/new moon with Hekate sessions over the years (Hawth is also who taught me about Anchoring and body scanning.  Great teacher, fantastic conduit--check him out, book a session.  Highly recommended). Onto the meditation. After anchoring, Hawth takes us to a stairwell that lead down into the earth, where you'll find yourself in a cave or a room, then we leave through a door that leads out to a bonfire.  Months ago, my cave collapsed, because Hekate was all about me following the Sun and the Moon to do my shadow and light work above ground, so She opened the earth to let Sunna and Sister Moon's light in.  I go to a huge hole in the ground, which I usually just jump or climb down into. That night, I had two options--a pinkish silver grand staircase or old, wet, mossy boulders.  I chose the boulders.  As I climbed down, I automatically shapeshifted ...

 Over the weekend, I went camping with my kids.  A ton of fun, but very tiring.  It was a chilly sleep on a cot on an incline.  I've been resting my sore muscles and getting my sleep.   On Monday or Tuesday, I came across post from Brigid's Grove/Molly Remer about a September Class she's teaching called Replenish at the Hearth , featuring Hestia.  Of course I'm interested, but with Halloween coming up, I can't afford to take it (and it's not expensive, but it ain't in the budget).   However, Hestia tapped my shoulder wanting me to do a Hearth Replenishing ritual with Her.  Sure, yall know I could use some rest and energy.  Then yesterday, Virtual Fire was looking for someone to host the weekly ritual.  I volunteered, and wrote a ritual with Hestia's guidance, inspired by Molly Remer's class title and some of the poem/prayers she has on her FB page.  I didn't know much beyond the title and the prayers.   I knew...

 I meant to share this earlier this week--this is the omen from Tuesday's ritual--a message that's not just for the attendees, but for anyone who needs it.  Not a big scary serious omen.  The ritual was about new beginnings, as this is a time that many are starting new school year, and others may have new projects--such as one druid's new youtube channel. The deities who showed up were surprising at first.  Loki,  Rán, and   Ægir .  Loki, I know, but Ran and Aegir, I don't know too well, never worked with Them before.  I know of Their domains and some stories--both are Ocean Jotuns, married, who have Nine Wave Daughters (who may or may not be Heimdall's mothers) .  I don't know much about Her husband other than His Hall, but I know Ran is associated with drowning, and collects victims in Her net.  I have met Her once before this ritual. It took me a few moments to connect to the two of Them because I don't already have an existing relat...

 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...

 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...

 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...

 Yesterday I took on the simple task of reshuffling two of my photo albums containing fragile old photos...which took me waaaaay longer than I originally thought.  It took hours and I'm still not finished, because i came across photos that were not in chron order.  I still have more to add, and I know that I'm not done.  I am close, though.   Anyway, when ritual time came around, the Grove was wondering what we should do the night's ritual on.  I was handling photos from high school and getting nostalgic and all that.  I suggested our Inner Children, that's what we went with. We brainstormed deities and spirits for our round robin script and got to it.  As usual, I volunteered for the omen.  Using the Rebel Unicorn deck, Loki came forward.  As the ritual progressed, so did Peacock and Thor in the guise of Marvel Thor.  He picked this form because we were honoring our Inner Children. Here's the omen that I did, my cat Jimmy Vent...

 Starting to remember why I hated the FB Pagan Community, and one of the reasons I deleted my original account.  Constant bickering and judgement--the need for control and impossibly high expectations.   It's not just a FB thing--it's an online thing.  And it's not just the Pagan Community, but the PC is the one that I'm involved with the most.  It's not a new thing, by any means.  It's just exhausting.  There's awful things going on, and yall worried about how someone else practices and believes?  Because someone's practicing Pop Culture Paganism?  Because they have their own views about mythology or their experiences with the fae are different?  What about your own practice?  Your own beliefs?  Why are you allowing a stranger's practices affect you?  Honestly, if someone works with Marvel Thor, how does that affect your personal relationship with Thor? How they may or may not practice doesn't dirty the spiritual poo...

 In last night's weekly Virtual Fire Proto-Grove ritual, we honored our Peace Kindreds.  The Roman Goddess of Peace, Eirene, spoke through the Goddess Guidance Oracle . Ancestors: Hathor - Receptivity . I also saw "Ghosti". Allow yourself to receive, to be supported. Have compassion for others and also yourself. Nature Spirits: Pick up your litter. Get an extended grabber and pick up others' litter, too. Nemetona: Sacred Space--Get outside . Unplugged. Allergic? Take medication. Too hot? Go swimming or get a portable fan. Vampires love you? Get a tent. Get outside to recharge. Get outside to heal and have some peace and joy. Come outside and talk to US. Give us your fears, your anxieties, your pains and sorrows. SPEAK to us, to friends, to strangers in a support group. Eirene (Roman Goddess of Peace): Sulis - Spend time near or in water to recharge . Go swimming, fishing, kayaking, sightseeing in or near water. Eirene was the main speaker for ...

Howdy yall.  Gentle Tuesday.  7 days into April and its been a combo of unhinged stupid ego and literally uplifting moon orbiting stuff with Artemis .   I recently had a reading done by a friend, which was nice.  Basically since the President Pedo stole power, my Kindreds have been telling me: Stay Present--You are stressing over speculation. Study Seidr. Study Rune Magik Study Clergy Courses Work on Art for my book Work on my Oracle deck. Yeah, three things got added this year.  They don't want me to do any magik, unless it's local.  They don't want me to do anything political, unless it's protection--but keep it local. In the reading, I was told that's doing a good job so far with the present practices.  My anxeity (<- google wants me to use AI for spelling fixes, so fuck em--guess that word's gonna be mispelled, and that one, too.  Fuck you Gemini.) and depression have gone way down (apparently cussing's gone up a bit, lol).  My de...

TW: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse. A visual transition from Shadow Work to Light Work. --------- I finished my Hearth Throw that was originally going to be my Winter Solstice Healing Blanket...until I got sick and thought it was a good idea to crochet... ...thus royally messing it up.  But its still a blanket.  I'm going to redo the Winter Solstice Healing Blanket later. Since I finished one of the three High Day throw/blankets I was working on, I started on the Midspring Bouquet Throw/Blanket.  50-70 inches is a throw.  Anything bigger is a blanket, according to the interwebs.  Guess we'll see when I feel done, at the same time, I don't want to have a giant bouquet, you know? 21.5 inches so far... So far, it's very pretty.  I'm finding myself drawn to pinks, purples, and whites this March.  I'll end up putting yellow, blue, and lavender flowers on the edge, tying it with the Spring Equinox Healing Throw.  I'm still deciding if I want to add a springy...