Demeter

Demeter

If you’ve been active in the Craft for more than 15 minutes, you are familiar with the myth of Demeter and Prosephone.  Their story is often used as the basis for equinox rituals at Ostara and Mabon.  But this ancient goddess has many other faces and indeed,...
Magickal Names

Magickal Names

Long ago, people chose new names to disguise their identities and be safe from persecution. Even today, some Pagans choose or are given special magickal names for use within their spiritual family, or among the Pagan community generally, or everywhere. Yet special,...
BabaYaga: Fierce & Fiery Truth

BabaYaga: Fierce & Fiery Truth

Imagine walking down a forest path and discovering that the Goddess calling you is considered a child-eating hag?  KareIsis will disclose her journey to her patron Goddess BabaYaga and the discovery of the power of the light of the fierce and fiery truth. The power to...
Celtic Samhain Gathering

Celtic Samhain Gathering

All are invited to a Samhain commemoration on Saturday, October 29 at Ardantane, south of Jemez Springs. Samhain, pronounced “SOW-en,” is the Celtic equivalent of the Day of the Dead, a time to remember those who have passed and honor our ancestors. Though...
Dark Goddesses

Dark Goddesses

In Paganism we have no Devil on which to blame the world’s ills, and yet humanity faces war, death, disease, violence, sorrow and grief, darkness/night, fear and terror, storms and destruction. We can look only to our own deities to comprehend these things. Who are...