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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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Ostara

tasara — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:14:07 +0000

The world slows in a blessing.Easy, mind in flow.Synced with the motion of leaves unfurling.Petals from cherry blossoms swirl in warm breezes.Hearts lift. Happy Ostara.

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Faith. Joy. Hope.

tasara — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 21:34:41 +0000

JOY is something that rises from within, an inner fountain, clear, rushing upwards. It is our inherent response to our connection with oneness. A burst of joy can make us giddy. When we HOPE, we prop a window open to a brighter place so that light streams into our dark world. It does not call … Continue reading Faith. Joy. Hope. →

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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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Essence

tasara — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 03:52:28 +0000

Trial by trial,stand strong. Witness the layers peelas you hold the mast of your beingyour rockyour youall stripped backto reveal youglistening in the lightunlike anything else. It’s you. There you are,your powercompletely familiarand now impossible to forget.

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Once a Muggle, Twice a Witch

tasara — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 17:06:37 +0000

Hello friends. Instead of waiting for the Big Spiritual Passion to return before writing, I thought I’d share what it’s like waking up from a long stretch in the mundane. We all have fallow seasons. Why not honor them? Much love, Tasara The waiter at the 24-hour diner is in a good mood. He is … Continue reading Once a Muggle, Twice a Witch →

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You’ve Come So Far

tasara — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 23:57:18 +0000

And She said, “There will be times in your healing process when you will be reminded that you don’t need to fight anymore. You don’t need to endlessly scan the land, looking for trouble, as you once had to. Each gate you go through, there will be a clear sign of certain dangers falling away. … Continue reading You’ve Come So Far →

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Hold on, my friend.

tasara — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:13:07 +0000

My heart goes out to those who are emotionally suffering under the “shelter in place” order. I know. It can be excruciating to stay present while in the depths of one’s own disorganized self, especially if one has known great tragedy. And who in this great world has not? If not in our families and … Continue reading Hold on, my friend. →

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Prayer for Us All

tasara — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 15:15:59 +0000

Great Mother Earth, I am listening. Your cry, your warning could not be clearer, your Spring ever sweet in your instruction. You have taken many lives in the wildfires, storms and floods. Now you take more in this pandemic. I call out to the Spirits of the Land. I have not forgotten you. My heart … Continue reading Prayer for Us All →

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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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