Epically long and full of parenthesis and italics.

This. This has not been a good week. I started my vacation from my day job (or night job, as it were) on Tuesday and I was expecting nine days of awesomeness and bliss. Currently we are on Day Six and I have yet to be smacked upside the head by The Awesome or The Bliss.I also have blogger's block, which isn't helping matters. I suppose it's not really bloggers block, I have tons of things to write about, it's just a general lack of motivation and...

Read More

The Wisdom of the Crow

When we think of Autumn, and more importantly, Halloween (or Samhain as it's known in my pagan circles) there are several animals that come to mind and most of them have a bit of an ominous feel about them. Bats, spiders, and black cats. Animals that make us think of darkness and the descent into the Underworld.That's what Autumn is all about.One of the animals that is deeply associated with Autumn is the Crow, and he has wisdom and magic to teach...

Read More

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble!

Happy almost-Halloween!Halloween is one of my favorite holidays! I love the mysticism around it, the scary movies, the smell of Autumn in the air, the pumpkins, the anticipation of Christmas, it gets me all excited!(Just so you know, Hocus Pocus is my favorite Halloween movie, it is the complete awesome, so check it out if you haven't already!)Because I am so thrilled (did I mention I am also on vacation from the pays-the-bills-job starting in two...

Read More

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words of Self Love

One of the first Self Love Assignments I give people aside from writing a Self Love Letter is to take lots of pictures of you. It's so simple to do, yet so hard to put into practice.“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” ― Dorothea LangeFrom the age of 15-20 you'd be very hard pressed to find any pictures of me, and if you did, they'd be the kind that were taken without my permission, usually with a hand...

Read More

Live Your Amends

I love finding bits of real knowledge and wisdom from unexpected places. Tv shows, movies, and books are something that we integrate into our lives but we rarely see it as anything but entertainment. I really love when I'm watching something and I just get hit by that "Yes! Yes! Yes! Wisdom-alert!" feeling and it has a real, deep, effect on me. Also, I'm a huge tv junkie, so I can now justify it by writing awesome wisdom-inspired posts about it!Private...

Read More

Treasure your sweet memories...

This week's Oracle Card Reading comes to you from the Oracle of Shadows and Light by Lucy Cavendish and Jasmine Becket-Griffith and it had a special meaning for me.Autumn is all about letting go, embracing grief, and remembering loved ones. I actually do not have a lot of experience with grief (for which I am very thankful). The only loss I have is my Grandma who died when I was eleven.I think the hardest part of that loss was what it represented....

Read More

What I wish to express to you.

Wishcasting Wednesday! Happy wishcasting to you! What wishes are you making today? Jamie Ridler asks us:What do you wish to express?This one is easy! I know that a lot of the time I come off as this love-y dove-y person, and I definitely am, but there's a second layer to that.When it comes to love I have very limited experience in my personal life. It's always been hard for me to say to the people that I love that I truly love them. It's this pesky...

Read More

60 ways to practice self love right NOW!

Don't try to change so that someone else will love you. Change so that you can be more in love with yourself.Discover something new about yourself. Try a new food, place, or type of music, see if you like it!Pick one day this week to have a morning/afternoon/evening devoted completely to yourself.Stop being so hard on yourself, grow from the experience and move on.Take a leap of faith. Do that thing that you've been afraid to do. Believe that you...

Read More

If This Is Redemption... Why Do I Bother At All?

One of the things that keeps popping up in my life, and in the lives of this wonderful sisterhood I've got going on, is how to deal with positive changes that aren't reaping the results that you want.As much as I'd like to tell you that if you are positive and happy, things will go your way, it's not that black and white. When you make the commitment to change, to try to be a different person, there's always this huge upheaval, this descent into...

Read More

Letting Go With Demeter

Today's Oracle Card comes from the deck Ancient Feminine Wisdom of Goddesses and Heroines by Kay Steventon and Brian Clark, falls in line with the theme of Autumn, and that is letting go. Autumn has always been one of my favorite seasons, I love the wisdom found within letting go of our leaves and our difficulties. Surrendering to the ebb and flow of life. (You should check out my Autumn e-book)Demeter stands amidst her fields...

Read More

Connecting with the Crone

On Friday I talked about mothers (more how I didn't want to be one) and today we're delving into the Wisdom of the Crone. Autumn represents the dark time of the year. Darkness, death, decay. The releasing of the old. The time of the Crone, the wisewoman, the Dark Mother.The Crone is the most feared of the aspects of the Goddess: Maiden, Mother, and Crone. The Maiden represents youth and innocence, the Mother represents coming into your own power,...

Read More

My Current Self Care Routine

Well hey there lovely! What's up with you? I hope things are going beautifully for you! I'm still recovering from the vortex of suck and practicing lots of self care lately. It's not a period of depression (for which I am so very thankful for) but I would classify it as a bit of a funk. Those are normal! I can not stress that enough! I used to believe that I had to be happy all of the time or I was failing in some way. It's not true! We...

Read More

No babies for me.

I usually reserve Fridays for brain spewage, the personal things, the things that go through my mind and that I want to talk about and to share with you. One of the things that I get asked alot is:When are you going to have some babies?The older I get, the more frequently I hear the question and the more frequently I get asked by strangers if I have kids. That question is like an instant ice-breaker when you're meeting someone new. It's...

Read More

Listen...

...

Read More

The more you share the more the sun'll shine!

I've been doing a lot of thinking about business lately and how I feel about it, why I do it, and how to do it in a way that feels right to me. I've noticed a huge push, in my online circles about money, a huge focus on being a success, on making profit, and not letting anything get in the way of you making that money. Hoorah! It's all good stuff, and I am learning and changing my views on money and business all of the time.The thing about that is,...

Read More

Hestia: First and Last

One of my favorite Goddesses is Hestia, she's the true Domestic Goddess, ruling over the hearth and home.When people come over to my apartment, which is very rare because only the most important people are allowed into the sacred space of Dominee, mainly because it truly is a sacred place to me, and of course you all have an open invitation to tea because you are pretty sacred to me too.Hestia was considered both the oldest and youngest of Olympians,...

Read More