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 …
Autumn Equinox
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 …
a poem for the waning green
Over the weekend we crossed a threshold together.Some of us were relieved, and others maybe not so much.Either way, it was the Autumn Equinox.Our dear Earth floated level in space for a day, and now she tilts this hemisphere slowly away from the sun.We are in the Deep, Dark half of the year …
So weird
One of my favorite episodes of This American Life is the one about tribes and belonging.First of all, it finally solved the mystery of why I like the sound of pencil on paper and whispered African accents (if you know, you know).Second, it framed a concept I'd been trying to …
Afraid of the Dark?
I have pet peeves just like anyone else.Some are like whatever, and some make me insane.This one makes me insane.This one cuts people off at the knees, breeds divisiveness, and vilifies something sacred.It's meant well, and I know the people who say it have their heart in the right place, …