For those of you who are aware of movements and shifts in energy, have you ever noticed that when you use White Ceremonial Sage to cleanse and purify a space, it has the added effect of nuking any shields and wards you’ve placed on your home?! I absolutely love sage, but this side effect is […]
Mercury is a planet (and a god ;-D) like no other! When the planet Mercury goes retrograde I can always feel it in my bones before things get really crazy. Within one week of the retrograde cycle’s beginning, I can see communications and transportation starting to breakdown. Emails (my most common mode of communication) are […]
The following is drawn from my personal journal entry about a drawing down the moon ritual that four of my friends and I performed on March 6th in my living room (within a cast circle complete with quarters). We all felt the need to commune with the goddess as we each entered important transitions in […]
Mercury vs. Hermes
Roman religion changed drastically following contact with Greek religious beliefs and practices. Prior to contact, the Romans did not have a developed anthropomorphic view of the gods but instead believed in the numina, or spirits (of which there were hundreds if not thousands). These numina did were not human-like but they were the beings in […]
Greetings!
I am a practicing eclectic Pagan and Witch in Champaign-Urbana, IL. I have been studying the Craft since February 1998 and have learned a great deal on my journey. I have also been blessed to meet a number of dynamic and devoted Pagans from many different paths. Everyone I have met on this road has […]