goddess spirituality

  • Longing for Avalon

    I’m craving Avalon. Over the last few weeks, the Glastonbury Longing has hit home. Don’t care about the shops, or the festivals – I’ve been pining for a windswept walk up the tor, stumbling through the faerie woodlands, blissing out in Chalice Well Gardens and meditating in the incense-scented Goddess Temple. Glastonbury tends to be […]

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  • Priestess Training From Within

    I’ve been a-making a new witchy journal for Samhain. (This is admittedly fueled by my stationary-buying addiction.) So I have been reading through my old witchy journal for any nuggets of gold that can inspire my new one. Earlier this year, I was hunting for spiritual direction, some way to to work towards my concept […]

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  • Rhiannon

    In various Avalon traditions Celtic goddesses are super important. Most people I meet seem to have a thing for Rhiannon, and she’s pretty awesome so I have no problem with that. She has a strong connection with horses and blackbirds, which is great because they are great. There’s a famous old myth of hers: One […]

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  • Let’s see how pointless mythology is.

    I’ve been reading Avalon Within by Jhenah Telendru and  am thinking about using mythology as inspiration. A long time ago, when I started reading grown up copies of the greek myths as oppose to the watered down illustrated kiddy versions, I decided I Did Not Like Greek Mythology. Let me sum it up for you: […]

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  • The Goddess is Darkness

    Witches know that darkness in itself is not evil – that’s why a lot of us don’t like being called white witches and don’t quite trust stuff named “Lightworking”, as it’s feeding into the dark-is-evil sterotype. Generally bad stuff tends to get called dark or gets roped under the “darkness” category, probably because dark is […]

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