This week’s Tuesday Tarot is a big one for me. While you’re reading this, I’ll be at the birth of my first granddaughter. (I promise there’ll be cute baby pictures to follow!) It seems fitting that this is the week we’ll be discussing the mother card, the Empress. Continue reading
I really identify with Freya. We share a Norse background and affinity for cats, although I don’t think any of the cats I’ve lived with would be willing to pull a chariot for me. Freya is a mother goddess for love, fertility, beauty and sex. She is also a war goddess, and half of those who die in battle come to her afterlife domain of Fólkvangr. (The other half go to Odin’s Valhalla.)
Sage is probably my favorite magickal herb. It’s so versatile! It’s the best cleaner for the energies in an area, or surrounding a person. It’s grounding, and can be used for spells from business issues to increasing your psychic abilities.
I’ve talked often on this blog about being chronically ill. I’ve never mentioned what I’ve got, because it’s gross. Who wants to read about poop on a witchcraft/mythology blog? Not me! So here’s your fair warning, if you don’t want to read about poop on a witchcraft/mythology blog, go no further. We’re not going to talk about poop, but if that’s the way you think, you’re already a lost cause.
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This week’s subheading is Subconsciousness. Case’s first statement to memorize is “Subconsciousness is perfectly amenable to control by suggestion”. Going back to last week’s discussion of concentration, and the concept of making visualizing images manifest, this is the flip side. Call it the “be careful what you creatively visualize” rule. Only plant the things you truly wish to grow.
I don’t work with many Egyptian goddesses. I had a coven sister years ago who claimed Sekhmet as her matron, and I’ve worked with Isis a little bit. I decided yesterday to try drawing a card from the Goddess Oracle to see who I should write about next and I drew Hathor.
Hathor is a cow headed mother goddess, and is known to be placid and loving. She is associated with the sky, and especially the Milky Way galaxy. She is also associated with the hippopotamus, vultures, snakes and lions.
Got all my herblets in today! Some will become oils, some teas and some I’m trying just because I’m curious (hello datura!). Check them out after the jump:
The Magician has always been an initiation card to me. Numbered 1, it signified an organized beginning, as opposed to the Fool’s more disorganized beginning. Think of it as the Fool is when you decide to study a subject and the Magician is when you sign up for the class.
Oh Marie Laveau! Anybody whose ever been the least bit interested in New Orleans voodoo has heard the many legends of Marie Laveau. She led huge dances is Congo Square that scandalized all of white New Orleans. She led enormous rituals at the shores of Lake Pontchartrain every St John’s Eve (the night before midsummer, or the summer solstice). At one of these rituals, she was taken by the lake, never to be seen again except for the type of glimpses usually reserved for ghost stories.
Trying to trace the historical Marie Laveau is a tricky business. She was actually two people: Marie Laveau (1794 – 1881) and her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – 1895?), who sometimes went by the name of her father, Paris.
Lucina's Cauldron 