Liz just wants a happy birthday.
Is that too much to ask?
A beautiful antique bed: her birthday present to herself. The nice delivery men set it up in her bedroom, and then all Hell breaks loose. Literally.
When it turns out the bed's former owner isn't basking in the glow of a happy afterlife, Liz must face some nasty adversaries to help him. Why on earth would she risk her life and her sanity to help a ghost? Certainly not because she’s in love with him.
The priestess.
The temple she serves.
The people and the gods she loves.
Having given up her only child and her very identity to become a priestess in ancient Crete, an idealistic young woman struggles to find meaning in the day-to-day life of the temple; but when she is chosen to be the next High Priestess, she must call on both mystical and practical skills to protect her people from the encroaching Mycenaeans, who want to destroy the Minoans’ way of life.
In these pages you'll find the pantheon, rituals, symbols and practices of Ariadne's Tribe, an inclusive Minoan spiritual tradition.
With a pantheon headed by a triplicity of mother goddesses who embody the three sacred realms of land, sky, and sea, Minoan spirituality calls us to remember a time when women were valued as equals to men, when the Great Mothers took care of all their children (all means all), and when the sacred touched every person every day of their lives.
Minoan spirituality is so relevant to our times, when we’re doing our best to move forward and away from inequality and oppression.
The fire cider is ready now. For this batch I put into a half gallon jar: sliced ginger root, garlic, onion, rose hips, dried elderberries, and a couple of cayenne peppers. (the ginger and rose hips were bought organic) All else is from the garden. To these ingredients I added apple cider vinegar to the top of the jar. Let it sit for 2 months shaking jar as I thought of it. Then strained it out and added a glob of honey from my hives. This is good as a shot once a day, or use with olive oil as a salad dressing.
I've really, really been enjoying crafting intentional things for people this season. We're doing a "no-buy" year, meaning that if we do give gifts to anyone, we're using items that we either already have on hand, or that we can forage from our land, or that we can make ourselves. I'm not sure how many of my partner's family members will adhere to our request for no gifts unless they're re-gifted or handmade, but at least amongst our friends it feels really nice to not have the pressure of spending a lot of money. I'm finding also that the gifts just mean so much more to people when they know that this is something that was really thought about deeply, and made for them.
:boosts_ok_gay: Wrote a short post on Medium with advice on avoiding being misled by poor quality information in witchy and pagan spaces today! It's definitely not comprehensive, but hopefully it will be useful to someone.
The tips here can hopefully be used for spotting questionable information or misinformation in other spaces as well.
I'm having a 25% off sale in my shop right now! That's on my D&D inspired handmade journals, tarot card boxes, and some art. All of it is very witchy and fantasy themed. ☺️ Examples below!