La Bona Dea's Journal of Everyday Magic

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Equinox- The Magic of Completion

Autumn has arrived and I am scrambling to tidy everything up. Finishing a series on Netflix, the last row on a crocheted scarf, the last chapter of the book it took me all summer to read, cleaning out clutter and perfecting the calendar, mastering a protection potion and some health elixirs, fine tuning a wedding […]

Death at my Lughnasadh Door

Each year at Samhain I pull a Tarot card for each of the Sabbats. I use the traditional Rider-Waite cards for this purpose. The first card indicates the Energy which I am to be surrounded in from 10/31-12/21. The next card is the Energy for Yuletide to Imbolc,from 12/21-2/1 and so on. There are eight […]

Embracing the dark, meeting your shadow

Photo courtesy of: http://irastrange.livejournal.com/ I had professor recently say, “When you understand someone’s difficult behavior, you can at least feel bad for them that that is the way they are, and be glad you are not them, but the the greater question is if they seem like they are trying too hard, why are they […]