A while ago I was at the farmer’s market in Powell River and I decided to buy something from the bee man. There were many awesome things, but eventually I decided on a block of beeswax. I had no idea what I’d use it for, though I was vaguely thinking of it as a sewing …
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Turning the Heel: A Rite of Passage
My Oma, Egbertine, was the eldest of seven children. She was born during The Great War, in 1917. By 1924, her mother Jantje (I’m named after her) relied heavily on Tine to take care of her siblings. She was seven years old when she had to assume the role of secondary mother. They lived in …
Sacred Kink 101: On being a Godslave
So, there’s this term — Godslave — for what I am. And a lot of people have problems with that term, and even the concept behind that term, to the point where they use rather hurtful language to describe their problems with that term. For the record, that hurtful language does actually hurt real people. …
44 Days of Witchery, Day 32: A pagan/witchy artwork.
One of my favourite artists, Autumn Skye Morrison, who also happens to be a friend of mine, does a lot of pagan-y artwork. I own one of her paintings, “Grounded”, which is a dual canvas piece with ravens flying in the top canvas, and one standing with the image of a woman sitting overlaid in …
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A favourite candle.
I have a big, yellow jar candle that smells like maple-walnut. I think it’s a Martha Stewart candle, but that doesn’t really matter (I bought it at Liquidation World because of how it smelled — like my bedroom in our home in Kihei, when I went to high school). It sits on my stove, along …
June 3rd–4th Flamekeeping Shift: report
I didn’t sleep for this shift. At all. I had a migraine on the 3rd, and I went back to bed at 4:30 pm (after waking up at 2:30pm) and slept until 9:30pm. The migraine was gone (and again I wondered how I had forgotten what life was like before the migraine — this one …
Dedication to Brighid: ritual debrief
I do a few things quite well. One is writing. I’m a good writer. I also make really excellent hashbrowns. And I do a good ritual (with some — ok, half, but with edits — of the parts borrowed from this one here). I was distracted and scattered before the ritual. I wasn’t paying attention, …
Imbolc 2011: plans
I have two major plans for Imbolc this year, aside from the Cill’s group flame keeping from sunset on the 31st to sunset on the 2nd (my shift starts at sunset on the 3rd, so I’m just going to keep the flame straight for a week, basically). One is a Lady of the Stars Ritual, …
2011 Annual Brighid Poetry Festival: Prophecy
I wrote this last year, but it’s my only piece of devotional poetry for Brighid (so far). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prophecy She spoke to me in a tongue of flame, light flickering along the edges of my soul. Like a dam bursting, Her words freed the truth already locked within me. Desperation flew as the lies of …
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Cave of Wonders addition
My mom got me this necklace from her holiday trip to Nicaragua. I love it because it reminds me of both Brighid and a Native Medicine Wheel (and I’m getting more and more involved in Native ideas and beliefs now that I’m taking First Nations Studies). It’s quite amazing how well some aboriginal ideas fit …