Tag: witchcraft
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Hekate Praxis (3 of 3)
Dream, Voice, Ornament, Offering For this final of three planned posts on my work with the goddess Hekate I’ll refer obliquely to my journal of the past couple months, and some of the ways that this deepening relationship plays out. … “16 names of the goddess” I awoke from a dream one morning in early…
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Hekate Praxis (2 of 3)
: : “Through your alchemical ash, I am transformed.” -Cyndi Brannen, Keeping Her Keys : Hekate altar, March 2023.Author’s personal archive. In my recent post “Be Not Afraid” I wrote about Time and some of the ways humans try to organize and chart it. Against the spectre of an unwieldy final piece of writing, I…
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Hekate Praxis (1 of 3)
+ “Hail mighty Hekate of thresholds, many-named goddess of roads and crossroads, gate-mistress, patroness of travelers and of the lost; Solar and Saturnian, bearer of chains who dissolves that which binds us…” + Hello my loves. In this first of three short updates about new ongoing projects, I want to share an experience that is…
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Be Not Afraid
Order, Chaos and Calendrical Observances “Baby I was afraid before But I’m not afraid Anymore!” -Belinda Carlisle (1) We are haunted by the Past; by nexus points of the choices we have made; by their crucial, far-reaching, often unforeseen consequences upon our lives. Until we absolve ourselves of our histories, the outcomes we perceive as…
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Of Sun and Stinging Stars
Hello folks, I am still enjoying a shadowy afterglow of October’s three- night Prayer To the Moon working (linked HERE ), as well as the energetic pressure-washing of the lunar eclipse earlier this month. I will be releasing a full transcript of the Prayer rite soon, but I am also excited about two new lines…
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Lunar Salutations and Hallowed Howls
– – “When the spirits ask ‘who are you?’, you better have a damn good answer.” – Aaron Leitch (on Glitch Bottle podcast episode 10 Aug 8 2017) … Hello my friends, and Happy October! It is Autumn in Portland and although the weather here is still warm most days, other harbingers of the season…
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Twisting and Growing, Glistening and Glowing
“Time is ever an accelerating force and as the evening air here deepens into end-of-summer coolness some fresh starts are beginning to ripen.”View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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Solar – Martial Storms
.. It is strange and satisfying to be home, down the slope of the old volcano, fixing garden beds, pulling buried bricks out of the yard at odd points, wrestling the plants and the ground under them. Cutting roots, turning earth to earth; everything’s changed again and I’m feeling changed too. The intense heat here…
Ecstatic Agendas 