I spend Dreaming season doing three main things. Dreaming, of course. And I'm also carrying firewood and reading beside the fire. This week I'm re-reading a novel that I first encountered many years ago, The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk. Like many works of fiction, …
Queen
Lineage
I love the scenes in British dramas where a kid is learning to recite all the Kings & Queens of England. The kid usually turns it into a little song to help remember which Henry or Elizabeth. It's cute. Royals aside, I've learned that lineage can mean a lot. Lineage can be a point of …
Summer Solstice ritual
This is a ritual to use throughout the next 5 weeks, during any full moon, or anytime you need The Queen. First, anoint your heart space with The Queen anointing oil. Face the East and say:Wise Queen, I call to you. Queen of new ideas and innovation, bring me fresh ideas and solutions to worn …
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 …
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 …