La Bona Dea's Journal of Everyday Magic

Storytelling which touches the heart and awakens the soul

Focused Intention Kits

These charming little kits are for use to help keep your focus on your divine gift and desired goals. Each kit comes with hand crafted ritual bath salts made from corresponding herbs and essential oils, sea, iodized,and Epsom salts (use to remove blocks that may delay your goals), a corresponding crystal and charm to place […]

Manifestations Take Root Ritual 4/5/2016

Our lovely participants produced these beautiful potted plants as part of our Manifesting with the Divine workshop at Songbird Community Healing Center this month. The Altar is devoted to love. Love of self, love of others, love relationships, marriage, intimate, and familial. Look at all the love on that table! Go forth dreams, become real, […]

Spring is here, manifesting powers are amplified now!

All around us Mother Earth is growing, creating, blossoming….. The last few weeks have been very nice for me. I have been truly enjoying the outside, being in nature and melting in the blessed warm sun! Feelings of childhood have stirred deep within my being and I feel giddy and happy- like there are endless […]

Pink Champagne, Roses, Sparkles, and more

The dawn of spring has arrived and I am wallowing in its bliss! Awakening from the deep slumbers where I created my dreams, uncertain where they would lead, I find that I am where I want to be. In the seat of my happiness, created by self and manifested by me. I am able to […]

Awakening From the Dark

This past year’s journey was a long and difficult one for me. I wake up now and look in the mirror and I don’t really recognize my own eyes. They have a new wisdom that was attained, and not at all by peaceful methods. This past year was a long journey through darkness, and just […]

New Moon, New Year

It’s January and the crescent moon just appeared. It’s true that at any time you can change the direction of your life. You can decide right in the middle of the day, in the middle of a meal, conversation, or a drive, that from now on things are going to be different. The power of […]

Holly King and Oak King

Please visit Common Ground Magazine to see my story of the Myth of these two gallant kings! http://onlinedigitaleditions.com/commonground/ It’s on page 18 Merry and Happy Winter Solstice! May the light shine brightly upon you!

Welcome Winter!

The rains are here after a long dry spell! Winter is on the way with cold mornings and some days I wake to frost on the car, burr! The days are surly shorter and the nights are long. I find myself looking for my pj’s about 7:30 at night. Ready for a long winter’s nap! […]

Gentle Reminder

Sometimes, like this past year, I can get really cynical. The “why me” syndrome manifests its way into my psyche when I am deeply hurt. My first reaction, being who I am, is total withdrawal. I escape however I can. Then bitterness tries to creep into my heart because I was too mad to address […]