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Teaching Children the Craft: Every Friday 20 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Every Friday, before "Friday Family Fun Night", we do a Red Meal with Rowan. This is a rite where we make offerings to the gods of our Craft and the ancestors/Fae. We can ask for blessings, protection...
A West Virginia Lammas 6 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
For Lammas, my partner (who is also a Witch in my trad) and my apprentice headed to West Virginia to be with kin and friends for ritual, camaraderie, work with my apprentice, and more. (Rowan got to s...
Teaching Children the Craft: The Red Meal 29 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
So many paganish-Witchy types do "cakes and wine". In our tradition, we drink red wine and eat a dark bread as a reminder and tribute to a male and female dyad, and offer it to the Pale People (the de...
Graveyard Work 23 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
As part of our work with ancestors, we (my apprentice and I) have started visiting graveyards. One in rural Ohio was particularly special. It is a pioneer graveyard, never plowed, and has become a st...
The Trouble with Gurus 15 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
From Wikipedia (first paragraph of the entry): "Guru (Devanagari गुरु) is a Sanskrit term for "teacher" or "master", especially in Indian religions. The Hindu guru-shishya tradition is the oral tradit...
Having an Apprentice 9 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
As some of you may know, I have an apprentice. I outlined many of the things that I thought it would be important to teach someone learning The Craft earlier last year. And now, this year, I am actua...
Harvesting 1 Jul 2013 | 10:30 pm
And so begins the long season of harvest here at Boline. I have posted previously about wildcrafting (which will continue all summer and autumn long) and today I am posting about harvesting cultivated...
DIY: The Bike Coop 18 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
That's my girl- the blue mountain bike in the front. So I am excited to fix up my beloved bike (which has been sorely neglected since I became pregnant with Rowan). I moved it with me from Oakland, C...
Everyday Witchcraft: Making Offerings 11 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Often in the past, the basic forms of Witchery escaped me as I pursued a busy (mundane) life. Not so now that I am raising a Witchlet. He reminds me to slow down, maintain rituals, and teach him about...
Wildcrafting 4 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
Rowan helps mama wildcraft. Spring is not only welcome respite from an overly-long Ohio winter (not really used to that anymore- brrrr!), but it also means lots of great things to harvest in my neigh...
