This invocation is especially for The Mermaid archetype. Use it on Autumn Equinox, under the Mermaid moon, and any day at sunset. We do invocations in a ritual for many reasons.It’s a way to honor the land where we to live and its features, and a way to “call in” the support of …
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Capturing The Mermaid
This is an excerpt from The Mermaid Materia Mystica, the workbook included in this season's Writer's Group and the Darkwood 101 mystery school. When I began formulating The Mermaid anointing oil, I was a Mermaid.I was living and working in Marshall, NC, and if you’d walked into the town’s …
sword mothers
A year ago, I wrote to you about "sword mothers". I'm sending it again as a preamble to the poem about Patti Smith, one of mine. I watch a lot of TV.It’s a quintessential Piscean escape tactic, but it’s also fodder for my imagination.I was watching a show one day, and a character mentioned this …
getting here
Once upon a time I was a theater kid.Then I was a college student studying literature.Then I was a massage therapist, an aromatherapist, a ritualist, and, I guess, "witchy".And now I'm 49 with yet another version, fresher.I spent Queen season scanning my life from this archetype's signature …
sovereignty audit
During Queen season we contemplate the themes of her archetypal wisdom.One of her themes is sovereignty. Sovereignty means the authority to self-govern, a serious independence, a resistance to outside influence, a personal purity.Unpollutable.For example, a "sovereign nation" cannot by …