Uncanny Moon-Child

🌳  The Tree of Life  🌳 I slept under Her far-reaching canopy, Curled up in a soft mossy hollow at the base of Her ancient towering trunk. Her roots circled around me before burrowing into the fertile forest floor. As She held me I dreamed that my own roots were extending to join Hers deep underground in the fiery belly of Gaia. My branches began to grow tall, entwining with her vast reach so that my leafy fingers brushed the stars, And beyond to the infinite abyss. That night She showed me the knowledge of the time before while my tendrils ran around rock and ore, reaching the far corners of the Earth. I learned of my Ancestors;  of their struggles and triumphs and the way they danced across the land. I witnessed them worship Her as a small sapling and felt Her power grow as they tended to Her. She whispered their stories to me as I dove ever-deeper. With my branches now far above She showed me what was to come. Her song surrounded me as She expl...

(* Spoiler Alert! * This will contain elements of the Introductory and First Gwers of the Bardic Grade.) I began the Bardic Grade with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids recently and the very first Gwers contains an Initiation ceremony to complete whenever you feel ready. I instantly decided that it wasn’t something I wanted to do until further on in the grade, so moved on and left it. I didn’t really think much about why I’d made this instant decision until I sat down to look at the second Gwers. I felt really frustrated that there seemed to be a block from stopping me from focusing properly to even read the first page. It suddenly dawned on me that there had been a lot of feelings surrounding my decision to leave the ceremony until later and I hadn’t given the proper time to exploring them. There was anxiety; fear in the pit of my stomach, ever-churning. Even as a Witch I’m not big on the full ceremonies and rituals and prefer to do things that are much simpler. It has...

Deep inside my heart I have been aware for a long time that something has been missing from my life. Something lacking. Something stopping me from being whole. I suspected what it might be when I started a certificate in counselling skills and was thrown into a close-knit group of women. Interaction was unavoidable and I felt out of my depth. I bonded with some beautiful women as we journeyed together, but in all honestly I knew I was still holding back. Last year just before Samhain I randomly discovered Lisa Listers book 'Witch'. I had never considered Witchcraft as a path to follow, and had reservations about anything claiming the word Feminism. I realise now that I held fear over that word because it meant accepting the feminine in myself and admitting that I deserved to embrace the power I had inside as a woman. I consumed the book within a few days and it ignited something in me that was long forgotten; my feminine energy and power. I had neglected, and even been c...