Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Dealing with extreme emotions, whether our own or others, can be challenging for any empath. For those empaths accustomed to this sort of experience, it’s easier to assess the ownership of the vibration. But for the less aware empath experiencing…
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In This Crone’s Opinion, Binding Spells Aren’t Curses
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. In this Crone’s opinion, it’s no one’s business how a witch chooses to express her* craft. It’s like when I read in the Daily Beast that Bill Maher apparently went off on his last show in December, or whenever it…
Stepping Aside Versus Feeling Compelled ~ The Witch and the Empath Within
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. When I renamed this blog Stepping Aside, I did so because I had reached a point in my life where I was finished with the drama that surrounded me. It was a sort of walking away moment if you will. I…
The Nonresistance Found Between Initiation and Retreat ~ Tarot for 22 Feb 2017
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The Fool, The Hermit, and the Princess of Wands comprise today’s tarot reading dealing with initiation, retreat, and nonresistance. The Fool represents our creative potential, infinite and without expectation. Androgynous and innocent, The Fool as initiate begins the great work…
As The Tower Crumbles ~ Tarot for 18 Feb 2017
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Swords, Cups, a crumbling Tower and an expansive and brilliant Sun comprise today’s tarot reading from my Thoth deck. Our intellect as well as our emotions are in play today. The overall numerology of the reading is 16, 9, and…
Invoking Spirit and the Pentagram of Protection ~ Tarot for 17 Feb 2017
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Pentagrams can be used as sigils for protection. A pentagram is placed in the middle of today’s five-card pentagram spread. The pentagram signifies the four elements as well as Spirit. When pointed upward, its focus is on Spirit. Pointed downward,…
Protection Rune Magick
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Our brothers and sisters in the Oroville, California area have evacuated their homes due to a break in a spillway at the Oroville dam, so I thought some protection rune magick might be in order. My husband and I spent…
The Perilous Silencing of Women
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. The silencing of women has begun in earnest on the floor of the Senate. Be seen and not heard. That’s what I was told by my parents while growing up. I was precocious in their view and my truthful comments weren’t…
An Imbolc Runecasting ~ 4 Feb 2017
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Today’s runecasting has an Imbolc feel to it. I’ve been drawing the same tarot cards the last day or so and switching decks doesn’t seem to be helping reset things so when I began drawing male Court cards today, I knew…
Empaths and Boundaries ~ Checking In
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Empaths can have the most fluid of boundaries given how we experience energy surrounding us. Empaths feel in to know more about what’s going on when they sense something doesn’t feel quite right. We have plenty of that now with all…
Witch Notes: Alternative Facts Edition ~ Runecasting for 22 Jan 2017
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Alternative Facts. I guess that’s the new meme for the day. However, the number 22 is a Master Number indicating cosmic law is at work today. Women everywhere marched in solidarity yesterday, 100,000 in Portland, Oregon alone, thousands more in Bend….
New Book! Empath
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. I confess that I have difficulty advertising what I do. It feels like bragging somehow and I really have to step outside my comfort zone to do any of it. But it’s part of the process I guess. My blog…
Strength and the Feminine Divine
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. Venus of the Willendorf represents the Goddess as the Mother of Cups. Known as the Queen of Cups in other decks, Hermann Haindl paints her in her donii form, her abdomen bulging with life, her breasts full of milk. She is…
Manifesting Higher Self ~ A Bindrune for 15 Dec 2016
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. If the election stands as it is, then we’ll all need to be fully present in Higher Self in order that we get through all of it. Some runecasters choose the runes they use for a bindrune. I prefer to…
Spell for Healing and Unity
Note: My blog contains affiliate links/ads from advertisers from which I may earn advertising commissions. With tonight’s Full Cold Moon also a Super Moon, I wrote a short spell for healing and unity. I posted yesterday the drawing of the bindrune I’ll use for it, and today I created the actual bindrune for this evening’s…
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