It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a chance to update my blog. Being a student single mom of 3, life got in the way. Santa-visit came and went quickly and then I realized… this decade is almost finished.. so it’s about time I posted on my blog. So for the end of 2010, [...]
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Last Few Days of the Decade
Posted in Pagan Parenting, tagged allergy, food allergy, natural, wheat allergy on December 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Healing Crystals for Children by Karen Ryan
Posted in Correspondences, Crystals, Magick, Pagan Parenting, tagged activities, children, crystals, magic, magick, pagan, paganism, parenting, stones, teens, wicca, witchcraft on June 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Ten Healing Crystals for Children Excerpt from : A Guide to Gem and Crystal Therapy By Karen Ryan, Crystal and Energy Therapist Crystals are truly gifts from the Earth. Children seem to have a natural attraction to pick them up and fully explore any kind of stone or crystal. They will often use all their [...]
Herbal Code – Updated
Posted in Correspondences, Herbs, Magical Journal, Magick, Pagan Parenting, Uncategorized, tagged activities, book of shadows, books, children, elements, garden, healing, herbs, magic, magick, pagan, paganism, parenting, power, rituals, spirituality, teens, wicca, witchcraft on June 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Witches are often portrayed adding Eye of Newt, Batwings, etc. to a large bubbling cauldron over a fire. While witches do use cauldrons, the names are just code for the plant ingredient. Wortcunning is the name for practicing plant magick or healing. Some of the codes below are dated as far back as around 200BCE. [...]
Faeries at Litha
Posted in Faeries, Rituals, Spirits, tagged activities, elements, faerie, fairy, garden, gardening, litha, magic, magick, midsummer, paganism, rituals, solstice, spirituality, witchcraft on June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The veil between the supernatural world and our own physical world becomes thinner at Litha. This is a good time to introduce yourself and/or your family to the faeries, the fae, wee-folk, goodly-folk, etc. You can leave offerings in many ways and for differing reasons. Offerings of milk, honey and baked goods are left to [...]
Family Litha Activities
Posted in Pagan Parenting, Rituals, tagged activities, children, litha, midsummer, pagan, paganism, parenting, solstice, spirituality, teens, witchcraft on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Litha – Summer Solitice, June 21 2010 – when the sun reaches the peak of it’s power and is the longest day of the year. Symbols : Solar Disk, Mistletoe, Feathers, Blades Colours : Green, Yellow, Gold Young Children Faerie Wands : take a stick and decorate it with stars, ribbons, lace or however [...]
Pagan Parenting in a Not-so-pagan World #2
Posted in Pagan Parenting, tagged books, films, greek, mythology, parenting, spirituality, teens on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As children get older, they begin to lose the fascination with fairy tales or having an adult sit and tell them about this god or that goddess. Although I don’t yet have a teen, I have a son who is approaching these years. He still loves interactive walks in the forest learning about spirits of [...]
Gardening by June’s Moon
Posted in Full Moon, Lunar Cycle, Magick, Pagan Parenting, tagged elements, full moon, garden, gardening, litha, lunar, moon, paganism, parenting, spirituality, witchcraft on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This month I’m on top of things and posting the information a little earlier than I did last month. See Garden by May’s Full Moon for a quick list of full moon gardening activities and ideas on rituals. This month’s full moon, the Mead, Strawberry, Rose or Honey Moon, lands on June 26. This strawberry moon is [...]
Crystals & Children
Posted in Correspondences, Crystals, Pagan Parenting, tagged crystals, healing, paganism, parenting, stones on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Growing up, I was a big collector of crystals and stones, especially rose quartz. I’d scan driveways, roadsides or any place that I could find rocks to be able to find this stone. I’d keep it hidden around our yard so that I could always have some on hand. For me, it was soothing.. although I [...]
Catechism for a Witch’s Child – J. L. Stanley
Posted in Pagan Parenting, tagged paganism, parenting, poems on June 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When they ask to see your gods your book of prayers show them lines drawn delicately with veins on the underside of a bird’s wing tell them you believe in giant sycamores mottled and stark against a winter sky and in night’s so frozen stars crack open spilling streams of molten ice to earth and [...]
Pagan Parenting in a Not-so-pagan World
Posted in Pagan Parenting, Uncategorized on June 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I had truly intended to update the blog over the weekend.. but, as any parent and especially parents of 3 knows, things can easily get out of hand. I did, however, have lots of time to think. My 12 year old son has finally realized that we are different. We readily talk to spirits and [...]
Shannon L.
