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Samhain 2025

tasara — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:12:20 +0000

An old woman pulls the veil aside and hurries you in to the blackness.Some call her Hag, but they do not notice the soft lines of love and concern on her face.She hurries you in because she does not want you to think long enough to fear.She knows that to be in the dark means … Continue reading Samhain 2025 →

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Happy Lughnasadh – 2025

tasara — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:18:23 +0000

Happy Lughnasadh, everyone! Tis the High Season of Harvest! What do you have? What do you have? I say you.What has blossomed? What do you reap?  For me, after the whole car accident thing, I have my life. That’s really something. I have a new car and a new job. New people, new challenges and … Continue reading Happy Lughnasadh – 2025 →

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Creating Your Meaning for Winter Solstice

tasara — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:01:29 +0000

Each sabbat can mean many things depending upon where we are in our life. Sometimes we need to focus on just one aspect of the season. Other times we are having a layered experience. It is darkest night of the year!Feel the warm embrace of the crone.Face your fears.Lie down and rest.It is time to … Continue reading Creating Your Meaning for Winter Solstice →

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Yule in the Pandemic

tasara — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 03:55:10 +0000

Darkness deep.Ordered nights across a gaping void. Some of us are safe.Some think we are more than can be true.Some have tumbled into the black, beyond. Each night shifts the dark,and the Great Mother, she speaks out loud. I W A N T T O K N O W Y O U . The you … Continue reading Yule in the Pandemic →

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Pandemic Mabon

tasara — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:20:40 +0000

We have entered the land of the Sheand the sun, she has slipped past and is making her way into the darkness.She is taking with herour dreamsour deadour ideas of who we think we areand what we think would have happened. Now in the second harvest, we see the truthwhat we have gainedwhat we have … Continue reading Pandemic Mabon →

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Happy LItha

tasara — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 04:03:16 +0000

Happy Litha, my friends! This sabbat, this season is about the much lost energy of benevolent male sovereignty. This is the day of the power of the Emperor, the King (not the lord or the prince). I intentionally use an image of a white man, because this is where we need these energies revival the … Continue reading Happy LItha →

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The Season of Goodness

tasara — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:00:12 +0000

(Imbolc, 2020) Blessed Imbolc, my companions. The Earth, she turns for us. For the North, ’tis Spring – for our relatives in the South, Fall. We notice the buds on the trees, the longer stands of sun, the song of returning birds, the budding of flowers…and the unprecedented outpouring of generosity. The deep mother hands … Continue reading The Season of Goodness →

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Perching Before Samhain

tasara — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:30:03 +0000

Grandmother pulls her shroud and the rains, the warm rains, it rains inside this endless cup of grey. Grandfather blows his crisp leavesand the smell, the earthly smell, the smell brings me to myself. Tis the blessed season of endless twilight, of richly dressed sunrises,of memories fine, memories drawn, memories, ancient borne,come from the crack of the horizon. … Continue reading Perching Before Samhain →

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The Ancient Bones of Ceremony

tasara — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:29:23 +0000

This book has no recipes for ceremony. Instead, it takes you on a journey through the stages of creating your own. Through this experience, you will deeply understand the energetics of what makes ritual powerful. Step into the mysteries of the ancient ways as you travel on an allegorical journey to explore the many dynamic … Continue reading The Ancient Bones of Ceremony →

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Skeleton

tasara — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:18:19 +0000

Once you have fallen down and rotted upon the earth and dreamt your dreams and picked yourself back up, you cannot remain a skeleton. The wind that blew through your ribs to teach you its song will only keep singing the same song, and you have learned it already. The ravens will not come back … Continue reading Skeleton →

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