Lughnasadh begins tomorrow! It is the first of the three harvest festivals and my mom and I have been busy getting ready. I updated my music playlist and we’ve been listening to it while we work. (Click on the link to get to my YouTube channel, Pagan Music Playlists.) I reread my Lughnasadh post from …
Our two sage plants have been growing really well, and we have already harvested and dried more than enough for cooking purposes for the next year. So, I decided to make my own sage bundles for smudging. (If you are not familiar with the benefits of smudging, this article explains the basics of how and …
We had such a lovely Litha (Summer Solstice) this year! As usual, our celebrations lasted for several days and I have lots of photos to share. We started out by making vegan clover honee a week in advance, and I wrote a post about getting ready for Litha. We started celebrating the afternoon before the …
Litha, or the Summer Solstice, is on June 21st this year in the Northern Hemisphere. It is the longest day of the year, and we celebrate the sun being at the height of his power. All the plants are growing and everything is green! Click on this link if you want to see how we …
Ostara, or the Spring Equinox, is on March 20th this year in the Northern Hemisphere. It is when the day and night are equal in length and it sits opposite Mabon (the Autumn Equinox) on the Wheel of the Year: At Imbolc, we celebrated the promise of Spring. Ostara is the actual coming of Spring, …
I made this beautiful herb dryer for Lughnasadh, but it is a great autumn craft as well! You might be wondering what the significance of the pentagram shape is. The pentagram has been used for thousands of years and in many religious traditions, but in Wicca it represents spirit, air, fire, water, and earth. While …
I was pretty excited for the eclipse yesterday! Unfortunately, I didn’t get any of the safety glasses before they sold out, so I knew I would mainly have to watch online. Still, I wanted to be outside and soak up the dual energies of the sun and moon. I prepped some water to take outside …
This post could have been titled “How to Celebrate a Holiday When You Don’t Really Feel Like Celebrating.” I didn’t have much energy or enthusiasm for having a big celebration, but I decided doing anything was better than doing nothing at all. Once I got started, it got easier and I found joy in each …
I hope all of you who observe it had a wonderful Litha! We celebrated on both the 20th and 21st as the Solstice was at 12:24 am on the 21st here in Ohio. We started our celebrations by writing intentions on water bottles and placing them in the bright Solstice sun to make sun water: …
I live out in the country in the middle of a bunch of farms. There is a soy field to one side and a corn field across the street in front of my house. Growing things is part of the culture in rural Ohio, but my mom and I did not inherit my grandmother’s green …