An ancient and much sought after recipe (that I just made up): Place the cauldron on a tripod over a medium fire. Preparation time: decades. Cook time: as long as you need. Serves … well, you and everybody around you, to be honest, but let’s just say … five. Take one measure of humility, but […]
Welcome to Shadow Farms, where we use our crap to fertilize the crop. The Long Dark is upon us, and for some people, it’s a hard time of year to love. Not for me. I was born on a New Moon in the heart of Winter, double Sagittarius, me. I adore the dark. I don’t
Want to cast a spell of democracy? Vote. Witches Work Come on come on, all my Witches Get into my kitchen, there’s work to be done We gotta bubble up this cauldron, here in my kitchen And bubble up some trouble for the foolish ones Come on come on, all my Witches What are the
I’ve tried to ignore it. Got myself good and distracted with so many projects, so much creativity, so many things. And I made it a record amount of time, I think, without actually doing anything about it. Oh, you know how it is when you’re in pain, if you stay busy it just … fades
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the mystical, occult, eldritch, witchy, druidic, priestessy/goddessy, magical and strange have never really been accepted in the US. I mean, first of all, way too many people in the US have come from overly puritanical and fear-mongering religious backgrounds, so anything outside that narrow and rigid band of
Wow, based on some feedback from last week’s post, I have decided to do a guided visualization to help us all start flexing that Experiencer muscle! It’s a little over 13 minutes (how witchy!) so do make sure you have the time and space to listen before you dig in. Please do listen back as
When you visualize yourself on your mind’s movie screen, are you simply watching yourself do things, or are you inside your body experiencing the world around you? This is important for your spiritual development. Which is it? Are you simply watching your, for want of a better word avatar, go through motions, or are you
The Sun God stood in the tower at sunset and allowed melancholy to seep into his bones. He was tired. So tired. It had been a long summer, and climate change was making his job so much harder. Trying to control the strength of storms and the intensity of light, trying to hold back the
We have the space-time field, morphogenic fields, magnetic fields … but I think we need to consider fielding one more … field … Mr. Rogers described love as a verb, like struggle. Love is active, to love, to be loved. Love isn’t some static thing just laying around until we need it. Love is something we do, and
Aging Like a Boss None of us are getting any younger. And sometimes it sucks. Aches, pains, sensitivities, digestive discomforts, thin skin … Sometimes I don’t know how I make it out the door. But somehow I do. We’re getting older in a youth-obsessed world. It’s not young people who are doing it to us.
