Last Friday morning at sunrise we stepped through a gateway. When the sun rose that morning, we entered the Light half of the year; six months with more day than night. And we didn't do it alone. The Girl Child archetype greets us every year at Spring Equinox, reminding us to pay attention …
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The Girl Child
We're coming up on Spring Equinox. Can you feel it? Like really, are your senses registering this shift? Mine are. I'm hearing bird song, feeling sun on my skin, munching violets, and watching the woods take on an ephemeral cloud of color as the trees fill with buds. Spring Equinox …
Early Spring with the Girl Child
Happy Spring! Well, almost. It’s been an interesting late-winter here at the apothecary. On the very day of Imbolc, mere hours before the ritual with The Mystical Year class, I broke a bone in my foot. How’s that for initiation? Here's how it happened: I jumped up from my couch to dance to …