A Christmas wish for you and yours
I hope the Christmas and Yule season has been a blessing to you this year. For many, it’s a time of extreme emotions – stress, joy, loneliness. The medicine of winter is a constant reminder to pull...
View ArticleThe magical classroom is open!
It’s my divine pleasure to introduce the Sage Goddess monthly programs, designed to offer you privileged and affordable access to magical tools, knowledge, and practice. Whether you’re a lifelong...
View ArticleFive magical ways to celebrate the New Moon
New moons symbolize rebirth, creation, and beginnings. I LOVE the new moon because with it comes a surge of muse energy. I vow at each new moon to create one new item either for myself, as a gift, or...
View ArticleImbolc: How to magically prepare for Spring
If you follow the Wheel of the Year, then you know right around the corner (this coming Friday, to be exact – February 1) is a magical holiday called Imbolc. It’s a lesser sabbat or lower holiday, but...
View ArticleThe life inside
Wherever I have lived has been a tree I’ve watched in wintertime, waiting for signs of spring. In Palos Verdes, it was a citrus tree. In San Diego, it was a peach tree. In San Francisco, it’s a cherry...
View ArticleBe the love you seek
Love magic is real – you can draw love, reveal love, manifest love. All the work must be done with an open heart and without attachment. You have to open your heart chakra wide – the Anahata – and...
View ArticleSmudging 101: How to clear your space with sacred herbs & resins
Clearing your sacred space before ritual, ceremony, or meditation is very important for magical work, and perhaps the most time-tested method is to burn sacred herbs and resins. Since the earliest...
View ArticleCelebrating the arrival of spring: Ostara & Vernal Equinox
On March 20, the length of day and night grows equal as the sun crosses the equator and in the northern hemisphere, this marks the coming of Spring. Magically, the vernal equinox is a time of...
View ArticleSimple Ritual 1: Purification
Have you been feeling the urge to clean and clear your home, your closet, your car, your yard? Spring cleaning is a actually a magical phenomenon. In fact the magical correspondences for March align...
View ArticleSpirit, rising
Easter Blessings, everyone on this day of such significance and ceremonial value to many around the world. I always find deep peace on Easter day, raised in a Christian home to see Easter as the return...
View ArticleSimple ritual 2: Abundance and prosperity
Are you ready to attract MORE money, MORE love, MORE health into your life? This vlog is a great place to begin. The second in my series called Simple Ritual, this video offers guidance for ways to...
View ArticleWorking Aphrodite’s magic at the April pink moon
April is her month – and by her, I mean Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Many believe February is Aphrodite’s month because of all the love energies that swirl around Valentine’s Day, but February is...
View ArticleHow to celebrate Beltane like a goddess!
May 1 is Beltane in the Northern Hemisphere and on that day we honor nature’s oldest love story; Beltane means bright fire, and in earth-based traditions, it represents the handfasting or marriage of...
View ArticleThe blessing of virtual community
For a long time, I worked my magic in private. I was a “solitary practitioner” of my many traditions and practices, partly by choice and partly because I didn’t realize I had the option of seeking...
View ArticleSimple Ritual 3: Home Blessing
One of the most common questions I am asked is how to bless a home or new living space. We spend so much time in our homes – they need to be filled with high vibrational energy, love, happiness, and...
View ArticleThe Magic of Scent
Why is scent so powerful? Why are men and women so drawn to perfume, cologne, essential oils, and especially to certain scents that evoke and invoke some ancient feeling within us, make us feel safe...
View ArticleSimple Ritual 4: Summer Solstice Bridging
The word Solstice comes from Latin and means “sun standing still” because at the winter and summer solstices (June 21 and December 21, respectively) the sun stands still in the sky before reversing...
View ArticleThe magic of summer solstice
This Friday, June 21, is Litha or Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, a time when those of us who practice magic speak of drawing down the sun. Litha is the longest day of the year, when we...
View ArticleWhy I love Mercury Retrograde (yes, you read that right!)
Mercury is the planet that rules communication, so when it goes 'retrograde' or reverses its forward movement around the Sun, we feel it in the form of delays, hassles, misunderstandings. So many of my...
View ArticleInvoking your muse
The Muse is your inspiration; in Greek mythology, the muses were the goddesses of the fine and performing arts. The word derives from the Latin word musa, which translates to 'thinking in silence.' The...
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