Circling Together, Yet Apart - Spring 2020
In March, 2020, just days before our coven was to gather to celebrate Ostara, the CDC declared the Coronavirus/Covid-19 a pandemic. Instantly the world turned upside down and our daily reality felt surreal. Schools closed, businesses shut their doors, and everyone was instructed to practice "social distancing." My heart broke as we made the decision to cancel our gathering rather than risk any of our sisters' health. However, I asked each of them to think of ways to stay connected and to share with each other during this scary, unprecedented, and spiritually draining time. Below are some of the ways we reached out to each other, gathered virtually, and practiced our tradition together but apart.
Ostara Gathering Apart
On Ostara, sisters who were able gathered at 7:30 to cast their individual circles and call each other's names. We spoke our individual couplets and our tradition''s couplets that bind us together. Though we were not together physically, we connected spiritual through our roots and branches and bound ourselves together for another Year and A Day. So shall it be! Caity's March 24, 2020 New Moon Womanrune Reading
Here is the womanrune reading I did this morning. New Moon Rune(s) - Goddess Guidance Layout Top Row - The Question - Rune of Merging and Rune of Ecstasy - How do we merge with/integrate our union with Goddess, She Who is at the Center of all things? How do we manifest our deepest/“highest” Self/Goddess-within? Middle Row - Guidance - Runes of Friendship, Divination, and Transformation - This speaks to strengthening and maintaining friendship and sisterhood through ritual, and the honoring of transformations in our own lives and those of our Sisters. Final Card - Action - Rune of Will - Be decisive! Say “yes!” to those things that service Goddess within, and cut away those things that do not. Through this sort of decisiveness we can live authentically and make Goddess manifest. Love, Caity Laurie's Garden
Staying Grounded in Mother Earth during the 1st week of the shelter-in-place order, March 21, 2020. Update on Laurie's "Lockdown Garden," April 12, 2020
Laurie's Update on her "Lockdown Garden," May 11, 2020
Alice's Garden - April 2020
Brandi's First Garden - 2020
Rosie's Garden May, 2020
Rosie's Candle Crafting - May 2020
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Lynn Carol's Ostara Card Reading
Lynn Carol embraced the technology and reached out to her sisters by recording her first video card reading. Let me just say, the cards that showed up and Lynn Carol's reading of them was quite astonishing given the situation we were in. Lynn Carol's March 24, 2020 New Moon Card Reading
Lynn Carol: I just came in after sitting outside in the woods under the stars. I used the Goddess Oracle deck (Doreen Virtue) to see who would help us manifest our will, based on Caity’s rune divination this morning. As usual I started in the middle, with the Goddess guiding our present moment. Sedna appeared - Inuit provider of infinite supply who lives in the dark beneath the sea and brings safety and contentment out of the void. This is where we all want to be-without worry. Behind us, backing us is Green Tara-healing rescuer, emergency worker who knows how to bring people together to make things happen. Before us walks White Tara who guides us to care for our health with heightened sensitivity. Within us we find Guinevere with her message of true love, our capacity to receive and give love with a whole heart. And guiding our conscious mind is Bast, fierce cat Goddess who counsels us to express our cat like nature- independent decision making arising through strength of mind in directed solitude. She is truly the embodiment of the rune of will! Finally, the Guardian who will get this all done is Pele - the fiery passionate Goddess of transformation. Whenever Pele shows up, we’re in for a rain of fire. She is unafraid, dancing in the maelstrom. I am tempted to say “Ut-Oh!“ Of course we already know that the coming moon-time will see some terrible scary stuff, but Pele’s message is to keep your dreams alive and manifest the divine passion at your core. No Fear Sisters! And now it is midnight and the reading is complete! Ritual to Protect & Pray For Health Care Professionals
Herbal Treatments for Coronavirus:
Sarah shared this article written by Stephen Harrod Buhner on Covid-19/Coronavirus. It offers a fairly extensive and technical discussion of what the virus actually does in the body, and how three different tinctures can help support the immune system, treat the symptoms, and provide cellular support in the lungs. I had some of the herbs required and was able to order the rest, so of course I made all three.
Caity Share's a Goddess Coloring Book
Caity's First Garden - April 2020
Lynn Carol's Garden Tour - May 2020
Lynn Carol's Passion Fruit Flower Coloring Image
Trish's Motherwart Plant & Butterfly in Her Garden April, 2020
Trish's Garden April, 2020
Emily's Mother Wort Garden - May 2020
August 2020 - Laurie and Bobbie's Harvestmas Loaves
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