Everything Under the Moon

"Go over and over your beads, paint designs on your forehead, wear your hear matted, long, and ostentatious. But when deep inside of you there is a loaded gun how can you know the Gods?" -verse by Kabir, translated by Robert Bly, slightly modified by yours truly to give it a polytheistic ...

I've actually done a few rituals to Leto, because She is the mother of one of my earliest patron godesses Artemis. But I'm honestly blown away by the amount of research you've accumulated. My own designed rituals seem kind of simplistic in comparison; I'm ashamed to say I haven't thought much about ...

Wow, this is a REALLY good resource!!

Bundles of sage or rosemary (or both, I suppose) hung above a doorway is said to protect a space from negative energy. Salt is also supposed to be protective, as are stones like agate, jasper, quartz, hematite, obsidian, and many others. But on a more physically practical note, is there any way to i...

This is a really great post. I used to be obsessed with finding like...my One True Patron Deity? Not so much anymore. As you say, I think we have different patrons for different stages in our lives. I certainly have!

Do you really believe...that everything historians tell us about men-or about women-is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident. -Modesta Pozzo, "On the Worth of Women" We are also daughters of...

Thanks for sharing this- it was quite beautiful.

Thank you! :3 I appreciate it.

I have been working With Frigg a lot lately, so I thought I'd share this invocation. It, and variants of it, have become a regular part of my rituals when I work with Her. It doesn't consciously follow any specific poetic format, but I actually rather of like the way it flows. Anyway, here it is. Yo...

((Goodness me, it's been a long time! It's time I got back in the game, as it were.)) An Invocation to Frigga You are the goddess of wisdom and prudence Lady of Fensalir, wife of great Odin Ruler of Asgard, cunning and subtle You who sees all and speaks not You weave fate and mystery on your great l...

A general rule of thumb is ... No electronics in circle, or during meditation. Not only turn them off, but leave them far from where you are working. This includes watches (if anyone still wears a watch). The electro-magnetic energy they put out can distort whatever you are doing. BB, FF I generall...

Absorb thyself in this great sea of the Waters of Life.
Dive deep in it until thou hast lost thyself.
And having lost thyself, then thou shalt find thyself again.
Even as it is written,
“She had her dwelling in the great sea and was a fish therein.”

— The Book of Tokens, by Paul Foster Case.

But the way it sounds to me, his repeated insistence that you go with him to church (and getting his family to try to convert you), even over your consistent refusals, is a pretty significant red flag that points to a deeper problem. Sakura is right that he may care so much about you that he will d...

My boyfriend is really big on me not keeping secrets... So after a while (I've known him for about four years before we started to date) I told him that I am pagan. I didn't tell him that I was wiccan because I knew he would deffinitly be worried. I also told him that I work with Loki, he begged me...

This may sound dumb but are then like Bald Eagles or could they pass for hawks?

Not dumb at all. They are definitely birds of prey (I assumed bald eagles because my cousin has a patriotic streak ten miles wide). They could be hawks, I suppose.

A folk-music version of the ancient myth of death and rebirth. The turning of the year. Sacrifice and resurrection. Addiction and release. It is at least 500 years old, quite possibly much, much older; a relic from Neolithic times (10,200 B. C.E. to 2,000 B.C.E.) "John Barleycorn represents the...