For the past several days, in my neck of the woods in North Carolina, it has been unseasonably warm. In fact, just yesterday it was about 70°, rainy and humid. I barely slept last night because of the impressively loud, torrential rain that fell literally all night long, flooding the little stream in our back…
Author: Meredith
"I have more storms than the wind has, for I serve one who is stronger than the wind, and with a sieve and a pail of water I can send the great galleys to the bottom of the sea." - the Witch, "The Fisherman and His Soul" by Oscar Wilde
I have been studying and practicing the occult to varying degrees for most of my life now. My personal path has led me from being forcefully raised as a reluctant Mormon, to an agnostic wanderer studying and questioning all religions, to a witch and heathen (first in groups/covens then as a solitary) to a shamanic practitioner and now to just myself - an unaffiliated, unlabeled, godless worshipper of Nature and the Elements. My husband is my hero and works with entheogens, and we live with our spritely cat, Naia, and a shy ball python, Waylon Slithers.
Chasing Waterfalls
I don’t set much store by the man-made calendar year. I personally consider spring to be the start of a new year. But we do still have a new moon tomorrow, January 2nd, the first of the new calendar year that we modern humans are still bound to, like it or not, and that still…
Autumn New Moon Detox: Fire and Water
The first new moon of fall (this Wednesday, October 6th) couldn’t be a better time to begin a good, cleansing detox both inside and out. The artifices and general busy-ness of modern life make it easy to forget sometimes that our inner and outer worlds reflect each other and often need the same amount of…
Diving Into the Wreck
Working With the Dark Waters of Autumn It is no secret or surprise that fall is probably most people’s favorite season, and it’s easy to see why: the beautiful changing colors of trees and falling leaves, the relief of cooler weather (in many regions), seasonal treats made from pumpkins and apples and, definitely not least…
The Cat’s Eye or Shiva’s Eye?
Reclaiming the Operculum On the last new moon I went to a gem and mineral show that I try to catch every year if I can. I was unwell for most of Labor Day weekend and was very glad to make it to the last day of the show, and appreciated that that fell on…
The Oracle of Water 