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Happy spring equinox! It's a special feeling to realize that daytime and nighttime exist in equilibrium for but a moment, and only twice a year. The energy of balance is all around us at this time, waiting for us to utilize it beneficially. Today, day and night are of equal length. In the Northern Hemisphere, we now begin our ascent into the light half of the year. As a Neopagan archetype for the light half of the year, the Horned One has been known by numerous names over time and across ...
We are very near to the fall equinox. These times are often revolutionary and provocative. Do you desire a lover? Do you desire to be a fierce lover? Fierce love is a powerful concept and invocation. It is not something to invoke lightly either. Make an altar with images, symbols, scents, and objects you consider to embody fierce love. A fierce lover is one who is a warrior for truth, who understands that vulnerability is strength and bravery is poetry. Fierce love is consensual, shared, and ...
For people of a faith other than Christian, Good Friday is nothing more than a day off of work and school. Others enjoy a quiet day of reflection into their private beliefs. What fascinates me most is how the Christian celebration of Easter, and therefore Good Friday, was established by the cycle of the moon. In 325 CE, the First Council of Nicaea established that Easter would be held on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox, our Ostara. The Pagan ...
An equinox has come and gone and now the world is moving either into greater darkness or greater light. Has anything shifted in you in subtle or overt ways? Where is your invocation of balance required? Light a candle of any color before you, perhaps at your indoor altar or at an outdoor shrine. Ground, center, and align. When you feel vividly present inside of the web of relationships, call out to the winds and the worlds: "Powers of the serpent winds, Powers I call and conjure in, I invoke ...
