I met with MarshAster today to plan for the Seed initiations for our coven. Our first one is on December 13 and I'm so excited about it. Each member has let us know what themes and images they would like us to use in their initiations and they gave us such good stuff to work … Continue reading Rites of Passage

So, the opening weekend of Mystery School… I'm thinking of it in sensory images now, mostly of a brilliant silvery moon glinting off billions and billions of frost faeries, of a thread leading me into the labyrinth, the lamenting of 45 heroes beginning their journey. The earth is still holding me as my foundations rumble… … Continue reading January 2002 Mystery School

On October 21, 2001 I received my second degree from Boudica via telephone. We didn’t do the proxy thing as we’d thought we might… I just cast circle with the phone and my computer in it for the first time ever. I’m sure we’re stepping into weird territory for die hard traditionalists, but Boudica’s tradition, … Continue reading Second Degree & A Coven

My second degree will be this month via a proxy priestess. LOL! How funny is that? I've been working for a year towards my third, actually and now I'm sort of on the horns of a dilemma. As I've been working with Rowan, my student, and Marsh and Jeff in my Study Circle, I find … Continue reading Second Degree Coming Up

I had my first degree initiation on December 15th, a few nights before my 30th birthday. That seemed significant to me because I look at turning 30 as an initiation into a new chapter of my life. Doing the initiation was Boudica's idea -- she said it's something we should have done while we were … Continue reading 1st Degree

I went to Reclaiming Witchcamp in Northern California from July 2 - 10. I just got back yesterday. Witchcamp was challenging, but awesome and wondrous. I got a lot from it, and some of the growth was not comfortable. Still, I look on that experience as excellent. I don't know if I can explain to you the deep pull the … Continue reading California Witchcamp 2000

Those of you who recall the Cauldron (Cnoc Aine's email list) may be wondering where it's gone. I've given it over to a worthy successor. There are a lot of changes happening in my life right now. The top three are my soap business, my "other" job as computer geek (the one that actually pays … Continue reading The Cauldron

Recently on an email list someone asked about "dark magic" and there was a good discussion that followed. I thought I'd share one of my posts here: >> So many pagans shy away from "dark" aspects of magic, throwing out silly terms like "black magic" and "evil." Magic is causing change through the force of … Continue reading “Dark” Magic

Today I was accepted into Ord Brighideach, an online group of people dedicated to Brighid. I'm so excited; I can't believe there's an organization out there just for Her. I was accepted into Cill Fearno/g - Alder, and will hold the 15th Shift. Basically this entails tending Brighid's Flame from sundown to sundown every 19th … Continue reading Ord Brighideach