La Bona Dea's Journal of Everyday Magic

At our last gathering of Manifesting with the Divine, my meditation led me toward networking. Yikes! That is scary for me, even though I talk…. a lot, it is tough for me to go out and to talk about me. What I do and who I am, and why I am. Hm. How can I […]

Summer Solstice is when the Summer Sun reaches it’s highest peak and we experience the longest day of the year. This is symbolic for us as we planted our “seeds” of desire and manifesting in the darkness of the Winter Solstice. Now, at Summer, what is it that we have brought forth? For me it […]

Blue Moon Water Bottle Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna- Our gathering of the Moon’s Goddesses invoked the blessed and whole energy of last night’s Full Blue Moon. The celebration took place under the nearly dark sky, the Moon hidden behind Her veils of lovely sculpted cloud formations. She began to emerge from the […]

I heard that the last New Moon (April) would whisk away “what no longer served us”, and I knew that whatever worried me about that would not be in jeopardy. I was fully aware, from past experience, that when things are taken from you, those particular things are what you never questioned anyway. If the […]

Festivals honoring the Good Goddess, La Bona Dea, took place around May Day, or Beltane; May First. Her festivals were secret and only women were in attendance. One aspect of La Bona Dea is found within Roman Goddess Flora, the goddess of flowers. Her abundance and beauty fill the earth and symbolize life on this […]

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 […]

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 […]

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!

Letting Go and Calling In Some people say superstitions are ridiculous and that there is no such thing as back luck on Friday the 13th. I would agree; there is no bad luck on Friday the 13, but it is, however, a magical day! There are 13 moons in a year’s cycle and Friday is […]

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars Revelations 12:1 At the last Dark Moon I gave away fears and I’ve been haunted by fear since then! A run in with the IRS; working on a […]