Categories: Witches Familiars
- What are the Magical Signs of Autumn?
Celtic Trees of the Equinoxes
Ogham
Those of you who have been following this blog have probably noticed that I am a great lover of trees and would naturally be drawn to the poetry of Celtic Ogham, the Sacred Tree Oracle of Ireland.
Ogham was used as a writing system, similar to Runes and are perhaps as ancient, [...] - Witches Familiars: The Witchery of Birds
Flight has always belonged to Witches, therefore we share a kinship with the birds.
There are as many different types of Witches and there are of birds as well. Each have their own qualities, abilities and traditions.
Here I will list a three birds that have been special to me: the Swan, the Crow, and the Owl.
I [...] - How To Create Moon Circles and Harness the The Power of the Moon
Painful Womanhood
When I was younger, I had horrendous menstrual periods. I dreaded every month as the symptoms came on, for it meant two days of agony, vomiting, dizziness, back pain, every kind of torture a girl can go through without dying.
During the 1980’s it was a new thing to discuss women’s health issues openly. Before [...] - Witches Familiars: Magic of the Horse
The White Mare of Britain
In April of 1996, I spent a full month traveling around the British Isles on what I called my “King Arthur Tour”, or my “Holy Grail Tour”.
The previous November, the visitations from the Tuatha de Danaan, or the Faery Court of Ireland, had begun, plunging me into a life of altered [...] - Attributes of the Horned God During the Dark Night of the Soul
This picture saved me!
Christina Oakley gave this extremely powerful image to me over tea and cookies in her office at Treadwells Bookshop in Covent Garden, London. Seven years after my harrowing spontaneous initiation with the Horned God, I had finally drummed up the courage to ask for help. It was not easy to find [...] - London: How I Encountered the Spirits of the Land
The Faery Queen and the Horned God
In March 1998, I went to live in London, England. I had thought I would stay there for 18 months while I researched my Grail Bearers’ Tarot, but the Spirits of the Land had other plans for me. I have since come to believe they called me to the [...]
- Witches Familiars: Witchery of the White Sow
Witchery of the White Sow
The pig shares its symbolic value with the boar. In Mesopotamia, at Catal Huyuk, in shrine EVI8, rows of breasts molded over jaws and tusks of boars express the idea that life comes from death.- Buffie Johnson
But, I hear you say, “Isn’t the White Sow the beast of Cerridwen, and is [...] - Witch’s Familiars: Animal Spirits and Their Charms
What is a Witch’s Familiar?
I have written about the subject of Witches Familiars, but have not provided a definition. Some people may not know this term, or not be aware of the special relationship that witches have had with animals since time began. There are quite a few layers of meaning to explore here, and [...] - Witchery of the Hare
Witchery of the Hare
Listening to the Moon, by Jackie Morris
I shall go into a hare,
With sorrow and sych and meickle care;
And I shall go in the Devil’s name,
Ay while I come home again.
So sang the young witch, Isobel Gowdie, when, under the light of the full moon, she transformed herself into a hare. In this [...] - Witchery of the Frog and Toad
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Witchery of Frog and Toad
I’ll go to the toad
That lives under the wall;
I’ll charm him out
And he’ll come to my call.
The Frog KingIn the Grimm’s Fairy Tale, Frog King, a little princess chases her golden ball around the [...]
