As the balance tips toward the dark of the year, we remember that the God form has sacrificed for us. The body of the grain is destroyed so that we may eat, survive, and flourish through the winter months. I think we focus so much on the grain, and goodness that is gained, we often forget [...]
A Journey Through the Pentacles: The Spirit of Abundance The pentacle is our symbol for the element of Earth in the Tarot. What does this mean for us? It means our physical reality, stability, occupations, and money. Using the numbered pentacle cards, one through ten, we can see how the the energy of prosperity ebbs and [...]
Happy Friday! Our card of the day is the Ace of Cups and this cup does run over. Aces of the tarot are that element in it's rawest form, and the Cup is the tarots elemental symbol for water. Water is all feeling, all compassion, and the depths of our intuition. Water poses the challenge of acknowledging our full [...]
Introduction to the Tarot With Heather Gaffney-Darnell Saturday, December 6, 2014 from 1 to 6 PM Sacred Grove Retreat15720 Mattons Grove Church Rd, Gold Hill, NC 28072 I am excited to announce that I am teaching at Sacred Grove Retreat Center in Gold Hill. It is a bit of a drive, but completely worth it. This overview is from [...]
A few weeks ago I quipped about the meaning of the Sun and promised an expansion on this card. The Sun, birthed at the Winter Solstice, has made its trek to the Summer Solstice, the time of the Sun's greatest strength. The Sun now makes its gradual decline ever closer to the first harvest called Lughnasadh. [...]
Some time ago, my Priestess friend Willow (of Misfit fame) and I talked about co-dependency in spiritual practice and I got on my soap box about this subject. Here are some of my thoughts around this that I shared previously with a few adendums. It is my tendency to notice and analyze how some of us seem [...]
I've received some interest in cord cutting so here you go!This method is useful because is doesn’t require ceremony, and it helps to release emotional patterns attached to the situation.Take a blank piece of paper and draw a large infinity symbol in gold or yellow. It needs to be big enough to write in.In the left [...]
Communication, vitality, the energy of being seen, the Sun has come forward with my card drawing today. To follow is a special blog about tapping into this card ritually, and energetically in light of the coming full moon and coming solstice. This card is insistent that it make its introduction tonight!
It's been a long weekend working. Had a great day with my Misfits. Having a warm fuzzy gratitude moment for my spiritual family. Loving you all!
I am a big advocate of grounding in energetic and magical practices. Why is it so important to ground and have your energy and center of being anchored in your body? Because your body is home to all sensory experience giving us the ability to touch that which is Divine. The next time you look in [...]
