September 2025 – Hearth Witchery
1 post published by annafranklinblog during September 2025| Hearth Witchery
1 post published by annafranklinblog during September 2025| Hearth Witchery
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
10 posts published by annafranklinblog during August 2025| Hearth Witchery
I might be quieter than usual for the next couple of weeks. The Mercian Gathering is coming up, and at this time of year it becomes a more than full-time job for me, burning the midnight oil and double checking every detail. 2025 is our twentieth year and we had completely sold out by January, … Continue reading "Apologies…"| 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
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
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
Anna Franklin is the High Priestess of the Hearth of Arianrhod, which runs teaching circles, a working coven, and the annual Mercian Gathering, a Pagan camp which raises money for charity. She regu…| Hearth Witchery
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
