The cards are watercolour monoprints, first painted on glass and then printed onto A5 handmade cotton-rag paper. As I worked, additional items were used to print shapes and textures, including particularly potent materia magicae. The creation took place defintely in an intense state of altered consciousness, fuelled by the essential materia included in the creative…
Below is a simple prayer I have used for many years in my ancestor venerations. It is important to me in my devotional and magical work to ground myself at the centre of the compass. This simple and beautiful prayer just does that, with a nod to the energies and protectors of each of each…
Admin · 2d At this time of year our thoughts turn naturally to those who have come before, those whose lives form the basis of our existence. I developed this tarot spread specifically to connect, honour and understand more about our ancestral inheritance so that, if called, we can do begin the work of lineage repair. We…
We’ve got it wrong when we talk about the Madonna/Whore complex, that feminine polarity of self sacrifice vs self serving. There is no polarity there at all. The two are only on the same scale, even archetypically, in so far as some whores are mothers and vice versa. Playing to this dynamic – in ritual,…
This morning I awake on this golden and silent Welsh hill with a feeling of the potential of the day. There is so much I want to do, a few things I need to do, and other unknown things I feel called to do. I sit static in the space between desire, obligation and purpose….
The tree rises up from the middle of the swamp, a still and silent pole around which the dark mumblings of the currents flow. The tree is dry and still, the waters are the opposite – although their motion in this instance is barely detectable. The tree is the anchor and the fulcrum for the…
The postman was kind today. I’m in love with my new Joan Dodal by Sullivan Hismans at Tarot Sheet Revival. First question, a propos of nothing at all: How do I know when magic is actual magic?
I get tired of the phrases that get batted around women’s empowerment circles. It goes something like…’Women need to step into their power. Women are still too much in their (Divine) Masculine. Women need to learn to be in their (Divine) Feminine. Men need to learn to provide a strong masculine pole so the Feminine…
Today I draw a card from The Haindl Tarot, a deck I hardly ever use. Nut, the Mother of Swords in the South, comes out to play in this full moon, almost equinox time. We see starry Nut from two perspectives, the upright one is seen as if from below and was painted inside the…