Oak & Ash – The Season Turns
There is a little poem, which most people who live in the English countryside knows, it is meant to predict the weather for the summer ahead based on whether the Oak or the Ash gets their leaves first...
View ArticleHekate’s Wheel & the Iynx Wheel
“Cyrene is also the location where Jason used the iynx wheel to cause Medea to fall in love with him. According to Pindar Jason did this to ensure that Medea would follow him back to Athens.” ~ Circle...
View ArticleHekate & Pop Culture : Liminal Fantasies, or Modern Temples?
No denying it, the Goddess Hekate has become a pop-culture icon. Dozens of artists, writers and creators in the 20th and 21st century have been inspired to include Hekate in their stories and have made...
View ArticleCailleach – Winter Goddess
The Cailleach is intricately linked to this time of the year. Her story is that of the changing seasons in our landscape and are specifically linked to the Wheel of the Year.
View ArticleThe Morrigan – Faerie Queen
Stories of the Faerie Queens are often linked to the liminal times of Samhain and Beltane, Halloween and May Day. This is perhaps because their stories are linked to life and death, war and love,...
View ArticleSamhain, Faerie Birds & Cú Chulainn’s birth
Occasionally I like looking back at old projects, and Samhain always feels like a good time to be doing that. To look not just at our ancestral bloodline, but also our spiritual ancestors and the...
View ArticleThe Horn of the Unicorn – Part 1
Originally published as Alchemy, Innocence and Transformation – The Horn of the Unicorn by Sorita d’Este in SILKMILK, Jan 2010. Read Part 2 HERE, Part 3 HERE. “I am the good unicorn of the ancients....
View ArticleThe Horn of the Unicorn – Part 2
Originally published as Alchemy, Innocence and Transformation – The Horn of the Unicorn by Sorita d’Este in SILKMILK, Jan 2010. Read Part 1 HERE, Part 3 HERE. Of course, it is significant that the...
View ArticleThe Horn of the Unicorn – Part 3
Originally published as Alchemy, Innocence and Transformation – The Horn of the Unicorn by Sorita d’Este in SILKMILK, Jan 2010. Read Part 1 HERE, Part 2 HERE. If we look to the Orient, the unicorn was...
View ArticlePayam Nabarz – Children of Earth Interviews
Last year I published a number of interviews with magical colleagues, friends and authors whose work I have been inspired or informed by over the years. I took a break from the interviews, but now I...
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