La Bona Dea's Journal of Everyday Magic

Storytelling which touches the heart and awakens the soul

Inspiration

Sometimes you are the Tower

  If you know anything about the Tarot cards, you may recall the very threatening looking Tower, it is on fire and people are falling through the windows.  Your world as you knew it  is shaken like a big earthquake taking place, and just as you thought you were on top, the Heavens said, “No, […]

Goddess Fortuna

She rolls through the sky, her wheel spinning; Lady Luck, Fortuna, Habondia. These are the sacred names for the Goddess who crosses the sky with overflowing abundance strewn about from her cornucopia. We open our hands and hearts to receive at this plentiful time of year. As the wheel of time moves forward and around, […]

Lughnasadh and the Blue Full Moon

The Blue Moon rose tonight, so I went to the end of the land where the river meets the ocean. I thought of Sedna the Alaskan Goddess who ensures that the sea is always full and that there is always plenty for all. I gathered some stones and thought about what I wanted to call […]

Cast a Spell, Say a Prayer, Recite a Chant, Seek Knowledge, Give it Away

Once your heart has embraced intention it will linger in your being until you cast it out int the world.  This is the way that our ideas and thoughts take form and become our reality. When we are immersed in our intentions we tend to notice things that relate to the intention itself. For a time […]

Intention

Deep within, in that dark cozy place, Intention begins to wake and alerts us to her presence.  Like a little baby waking from her nap, “Here I am, don’t forget about me, you are of me and I of you! Listen to my cries to be nurtured and given those attentions I need to fully […]