I hope everyone is having a happy Yule-Tide season! In all of the hustle and bustle this time of the year brings, sometimes it can be quite a challenge to find the time to sit and reflect on the returning…
Category: Pagan Spirit
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Slowing down to Grow
Every year, when I see the first flurries, I begin daydreaming (I daydream a lot) of sitting on my couch in front my fire place (which I don’t have) with my cup of herbal tea, flipping through seed catalogs, while…
Spiritual Motherhood
By Wendy L. Hawksley A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~ Tenneva Jordan You may have read that the High Priestess…
What an Airhead
Part four of a four part series on working with the elements from a personal perspective It’s not fair. It is not an unbiased opinion, my musings are completely one sided. This is an article extolling the glories of the…
Spirit Dolls
Altar dolls, also called Spirit Dolls, are just the vessel for an entity that is a guardian, or a companion, or a teacher in a Witch’s growth. Actually more than one entity can live in a spirit doll, but that…
Hot to Trot
Part three of a four part series on working with the elements from a personal perspective. By Retrokali Ahh, fire. The red headed stepchild of the elements. This is the one that often gets us into trouble whether it is…
El Dia de los Muertos
By Lyon Mercaeant For those of us who follow a Neo-Pagan path it is the time of year we turn inward, gathering what our personal harvests have brought to us and taking pause to remember our ancestors in the spirit…
The Witch’s Besom
By Lyon Mercaeant Samhain is right around the corner and along with that of course, is also the secular Halloween. One of the most popular icons of the holiday is the old witchy hag, with her warty nose, trendy buckled…
Blessed Samhain
The staff of the Modern Pagan would like to wish all of our readers a Blessed Samhain. As the new year starts and the wheel continues to turn it’s a time to reflect on the old and look towards the…
Samhain v.Halloween
By Retrokali As most of us already know, pagan holidays far pre-date Christian ones. A quicky little synopsis is that when the newish Christian church tried to convert the peasantry, the pagan peasantry said, “Sure we can celebrate Easter”, then…