Watershed
I started this post in late October, long before the recent US election, although what you will read has been revised. Nonetheless, apparently I was prescient.
Turning the Wheel: Moving Out of the Hub
JaguarMoon started (allll the waaaaaay back in 2000) as a typical hierarchical* coven. I was the High Priestess and although three other people founded the coven along with me, they all felt they were not ready to Lead. In all honesty, neither was I, but Deity Called and I answered. Over the years the other […]
Ambiguous Grief
“I’ve been grieving people who aren’t dead.” A friend told me this, and it struck home with the intensity of an arrow to the gut. Living in a foreign country necessarily requires some level of grieving for one’s former life . . . let me rephrase, because that put it at a safe distance. Since […]
A Magickal Autumn Brew
Autumn is such a lovely time to return our focus to our home. There is a reason so many of us have a fall cleaning time, mirroring the spring clean. We know we’re about to spend many months bundled up and away from the harsh weather outdoors. Its a reflection of the harvest time we […]
Birthday Tarot Reading 2024
Each year I do a tarot reading to accompany my annual review and goal setting and ask what the coming year will bring.
Annual Review 2024
Each year at my birthday I review the previous year, celebrate my accomplishments, and set goals for the coming year. (Here’s my post from last year.) Sometimes I adjust those goals a bit at the witches’ new year (Samhain). Over the years I’ve learned to set fewer and smaller goals to allow for new opportunities […]
Peering Out (Waves Hello)
This is a particularly difficult Mercury Retrograde and I’m feeling more than a little irritated and thwarted and just plain grumpy. Among other things, a major writing project and collaboration just got shut down after more than a year. In retrospect, I had my doubts about the promises made, but didn’t think it would go […]
Storms are Just Weather
This post is a continuation from my last post, Storms Don’t Have to Be a Crisis where I talked about the inevitability of storms within a magickal group.
Storms Don’t Have to Be a Crisis
In classic sociology, small groups follow a consistent pattern of forming-storming-norming-performing and finally, adjourning [1] and most, if not all, magickal groups fall into this pattern as well. For the group leader, trying to navigate your group through the storms can feel like standing in the middle of a field in a lightning storm—shocking, dangerous, […]
Building a Magickal Group Mind
In the first part of this article, I talked about the first two of three steps I feel are necessary to build a long-lasting and health magickal group, defining the group’s purpose and creating connections among group members. This essay continues that with what I see as the third vital aspect: creating a group mind, […]