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Labyrinth Spirit Work

Wayfaring Woman: Working with a Spirit Ally

The most recent post to Wayfaring Woman over at The Agora: The Central Hub for the Patheos Pagan Channel went live earlier today. You can check it out here.

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Divine Encounters Labyrinth Spirit Work

The Man in Black and the Lady in Red

And I shall go in the Devil’s name, Ay while I come home again. ~ An excerpt from Isabel Gowdie’s shape-shifting charm In the wee hours, I stood at the door between worlds; I closed my eyes and stepped through. When I opened them I was standing in the living room of a two-story house […]

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Labyrinth Spirit Work

Sending the Fetch Forth

As you may recall, my fylgia (aka fetch) travels between the worlds in Barn Owl form. The fylgja is conceptualized as a guardian spirit but also as a soul-part, reflecting a bit of the person’s personality. Diana Paxson discusses the fylgja and other soul-parts here. Since beginning our work together several years ago, I have come to […]

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Animal Wisdom Labyrinth Spirit Work

Hamrammr: Lessons in Shapeshifting

In this betwixt and between time (November 1st to about January 1st), I have been thinking a great deal about transitions of all sorts, including changing shape. It is one of my favorite witch’s crafts. There are many reasons one might shape shift: to obtain information using another being’s perception abilities, to enter or leave places […]

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Ancestor Work Deity Information Divine Encounters

The Road to Helheim

As a part of my work with The Catskin Sisters, a small group of seidhr women based in Central Illinois, we journey to some of the Nine Worlds within the Norse cosmos. Generally, we choose to visit worlds that are known to be (at least somewhat) hospitable to human travelers. One of our most recent […]