TWO OF SWORDS The card shows a moody landscape of pools and rocks, where two women are quarrelling and batting at each other with wooden swords. The younger one is thee Vanir goddess Freya, mistres…| Hearth Witchery
Yes, you heard me right – fuchsia jam! Many of us grow fuchsias in our gardens, but did you know that from the flowers to the berries, every part of the fuchsia is edible? You can add the flowers t…| Hearth Witchery
THE HANGED MAN The Hanged Man card depicts Odin, hanging on the great world tree Yggdrasil from Norse mythology, which has its branches in Asgard, the upperworld, its trunk in the middle realm or E…| Hearth Witchery
Raw cider vinegar is full of enzymes, vitamins, probiotics and minerals that pasteurised cider vinegars do not have, as they are destroyed by the heating process. All the healing benefits you have read about with cider vinegar are absent from processed products. If you have ever tried to buy it you will know that it … Continue reading "Cider Vinegar"| Hearth Witchery
KNIGHT OF CUPS The card depicts a serene knight on a calm white horse. He is the god Osiris. The Egyptians called him the Lord of Love and the Good Shepherd. He came to earth to show mankind how to live with law and morality, how to worship the Gods and grow grain. He ruled … Continue reading "This Week’s Reading (19 August 25)"| Hearth Witchery
It is revealing to note that 80% or more of those accused of practising black magic during the witchcraft persecutions were women. A Dominican father declared that any woman knew more magic than a hundred men. According to the Malleus Maleficarum “There are more women than men found infected with the heresy of witchcraft “and … Continue reading "Witch Hunts – A War on Women"| Hearth Witchery
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The intense heat of the Dog Days has brought summer growth to its end, and the crops have ripened, ready for cutting. For the ancient Romans, August fell under the protection of Ceres, the grain goddess. The Anglo-Saxons called it the Harvest Month, [1] in Ruthenia it was the Sickle Month, in Moravia the Cutting … Continue reading "The Wheel Turns"| Hearth Witchery
PRINCESS OF CUPS With the hot days of summer shortening, a voluptuous, reflective woman stands alone by the sea, which represents the unconscious mind. She holds a goblet in one hand and a sheaf of wheat in the other, symbolising the harvest of water and earth. Behind her, the Sun is beginning to set in … Continue reading "This Week’s Reading (11 August 25)"| Hearth Witchery
Marymass, sometimes known as Murmass, is the Scottish name for the feast of the Assumption on 15th August. It replaced the earlier festival of Lughnasain in the northern regions where the harvest w…| Hearth Witchery
As a public representative of Paganism, I frequently talk to people who feel drawn to Pagan religions but aren’t sure if Paganism is the right fit for them. As minority belief systems, the specifics of Pagan beliefs and practices are not well-known in wider society. Additionally, the incredible diversity of Pagan religions means that although... The post You Might Be a Pagan If… appeared first on Glasse Witch Cottage.| Glasse Witch Cottage
Foundations of Witchcraft: A Blackfeather Mystery School Manual is the revised and expanded (over 10K words) text formerly known as Blackfeather Mystery School: The Magpie Training. This manuscript is slated for release through Crossed Crow Books for August of 2026. (The next Foundations training will be in September of 2026.) Pre-order your copy here. Foundations...| Glasse Witch Cottage
It’s the 1st August: Lammas, Lughnasadh. The first harvest festival, it comes as a welcome respite for me. I’ve been away in Canada visiting family, and the 35 to 38C temperatures were horrendous. …| Down the Forest Path
When I look at the path of a river, I sometimes marvel at the way it cuts through stone to wend its flow through the landscape around me. I’m lucky enough to live near both the Potomac and Conococheague rivers and I’ve spent a lot of time wandering their shores and paddling kayaks along their...| Glasse Witch Cottage
In what should not be a surprise for anyone who knows me even a little, I am a former theater kid. Where some families are focused around sports, my family of origin was focused around the arts. I have been a performer my entire life. As a member of a theater family, this meant that as I was growing up, my wheel of the year – the anchors that helped me connect to the passage of time – took the form of theatrical productions. | Glasse Witch Cottage
Friends, Ash and I are so excited to share some big news with you. People who are local to the Western Maryland area know us as a team. Although I’m the one with a media presence, Ash and I are partners in pretty much everything. We write songs for Kindred Crow as a team, develop...| Glasse Witch Cottage
There’s a funny quote that circulates around the internet from time to time. It’s been attributed to lots of people, up to and including Sigmund Freud, but as far as I can tell it originated from a random person’s Twitter feed many years ago now. The quote reads: “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or...| Glasse Witch Cottage
This spring, I had a chance to sit down with JoAnna Farrer of The Coffee & Divination podcast for a lovely, wide-ranging conversation. We cover a lot of ground: tarot, divination, reconstruction of seidr, oracular work in general, Pagan community, and more. Check it out at one of the links below! General purpose link, for...| Glasse Witch Cottage
There is a stereotype within the Pagan community that gets encapsulated as “Epic Wolf Shirt Guy.” It’s an extreme form of animal kinship. Epic Wolf Shirt Guy has an animal they really resonate with, usually something sort of stereotypically Pagan, hence the wolf being the prime example of this stereotype. The joke is that they own 2,327 representations of their animal, have an altar dedicated to their animal, wear clothes with dramatic art of their animal printed on them, and may in fac...| Glasse Witch Cottage
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I find myself continually grateful to live in Western Maryland. For someone of Pagan faith, whose spiritual practice is oriented toward aligning with the cycles of nature, it’s hard to imagine a better region in which to make a home. The cool rains of springtime fell heavily this year. Now, as we turn toward the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the official “start” of summer, the green and growing spirits around us are bursting forth with wild abandon. Our lush, burgeoni...| Glasse Witch Cottage
The contemporary Pagan holiday calendar is based on astrological timings. We celebrate the solstices, the longest and shortest days of the year, as well as the equinoxes when day and night are of equal length. And, we celebrate the halfway point between each solstice and equinox. These are called cross-quarter days in many traditions since they occur halfway through a quarter section of a year. If you visualize the year as a circle with two lines dividing the circle in half vertically and hor...| Glasse Witch Cottage
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The huge diversity of personifications, spirits, deities, and other entities that are associated with Yule and Christmas is astonishing. There are multiple versions of Father Christmas (aka Santa C…| Dowsing for Divinity
One perspective common to most of the belief systems that fall under the umbrella term of Paganism is a desire to connect more fully with the natural world. There’s a recognition among most Pagans that Western culture, as a whole, has slipped too far from the cycle of the seasons and the interconnected web of existence. Indeed, treating the natural world as a resource to be exploited and viewing the lives of our non-human neighbors as meaningless and expendable has resulted in a world in tu...| Glasse Witch Cottage
This article is too good and too interesting for it to be lost so I have retrieved it from the Wayback Machine. Reclaiming Narnia: Walking Trees, Talking Beasts, Divine Waters By Jonathan Wool…| Dowsing for Divinity
Do you judge books by their cover design? It’s very hard not to. Books are colour-coded these days. Pastel colours suggest a light beach read. Especially if the cover art is an actual painting of a…| Dowsing for Divinity
Kerby presents worldviews that shaped our civilization based on Glenn Sunshine's book Why You Think the Way You Do. He compares these classical worldviews with a Christian, biblical worldview giving us an idea of how today's thinking evolved and how it stacks up to a biblical worldview.| Probe Ministries
The pentagram is an ancient symbol, used around the world to represent things that come in groups of five (the five senses, the five elements in Chinese symbolism, four elements plus spirit in the …| Dowsing for Divinity
The ancients thought that the state induced by wine was a sacred one, a communion with the mind of the God. The term ‘entheogen’ was invented by Gordon Wasson and means ‘god containing’ and refers …| Hearth Witchery
On medieval buildings in England, a strange face can be seen carved on walls. We call him the Green Man. But who was he originally, and why is he everywhere?| Historic Mysteries
It was a fact of medieval life that you could die a sinner. However sin eaters, on the edge of society, could take that sin away for beer and a loaf of bread.| Historic Mysteries
Artemisia vulgaris Planetary ruler: Moon/Venus Element: water Associated deities: Artemis, Chandra, Diana, Hecate Magical virtues: visions, prophecy, shamanic work, cleansing, protection LORE: Mugw…| Hearth Witchery
These are suggested guidelines for a coven or working group. Please feel free to adapt them for your group as you see fit.| Dowsing for Divinity
I was a lonely child. I am now and have always been a bit of a too-much person. I have big feelings, an abundance of natural energy, and I’m very smart. I also fall into the neurodiverse world when it comes to how my brain works. I have some sensory processing issues that can cause trouble if they get too close to the surface. I know now that some of the behaviors and lashing-out I experienced as a child were a response to hitting neurological overwhelm. It’s easy to analyze all of that n...| Glasse Witch Cottage
Paeonia sp. As I write, the peonies are starting to come out in my garden this week, and I know from experience that this heralds a period of early summer storms – every year, my poor red peony get…| Hearth Witchery
One of the aspects of Pagan culture that can seem unusual to newcomers is the names that some Pagans take as part of our spiritual journey. Many times, these names are unfamiliar and identifiably not part of the larger culture from which we hail. Some of us only use our spiritual name in religious spaces like ceremonies and Pagan gatherings, but as taking a different name becomes more common in the wider culture, more and more Pagans are feeling empowered to legally change their name to their...| Glasse Witch Cottage
Depending on the metric you use to sort generations into categories, I am either one of the youngest members of Generation X or one of the oldest members of the Millennial generation. My birth year is 1980, which means I occupy a weird overlap between generational lines. One of the big ways both generations struggle involves money and property. According to the Schroders 2023 U.S. Retirement Survey, over 60% of non-retired Gen Xers do not think they will be able to fully retire. Based on conv...| Glasse Witch Cottage
The number one guide to understanding the wheel of the year - an ancient Celtic calendar based on festivals that celebrated our connection with nature.| The Outdoor Apothecary
If you are writing a blog here at Patheos, you are a Pagan leader, whether you like it or not. You have been given a platform, and consequently, you have a responsibility to others in our community. We must speak out. By all means, write about the gods and write about magic. But also write about what the gods and magic mean in the context of today's political reality.| The Allergic Pagan
Join us tonight at 8pm ET / 7pm CT / 6pm MT / 5pm PT on Pagan Musings Podcast. KaliSara and RevKess take an in depth look at Atheopaganism, or atheist Pagans, by having a conversation with John Halstead, Cat Chapin-Bishop, Áine Órga, and Tom Swiss. John is the editor of a book called Godless Pagans: voices of Non-Theistic Pagans. The others are all contributors to this anthology.| The Allergic Pagan
