Every year, my husband, daughter, and I sit down and discuss how we want to celebrate key HolyDays and Festivals in our home. We have some of the usual suspects that you’d expect in a home with an 8-year old girl (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Birthdays, Halloween, etc.). Per her request, we also have Diwali and Spring […]
Mary as Theotokos and Spring Birthings by Marisa McCall
March is a contemplative month for me. It always brings me back to the year of my daughter’s birth. I spent the whole month of March that year in exhausted exaltation. I was becoming a mother, and while I was excited beyond all belief at finally getting to hold my baby girl in my arms, […]
Choosing Goddess by Marisa McCall
Did you ever read those Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid? I loved them. An avid reader from the age of 2, I was inhaling books faster than people could buy them for me. For my 6th birthday, my friend’s mom gave me two different CYOA books, thinking it might slow me down […]
Quick and Easy Samhain – Tips for making your HolyDay just a little easier by Marisa McCall
There are times and places for large-scale formal ritual, and just as many times and places for casting a circle on the fly. But what about all those in-between times when you want to celebrate a Holy Day or a seasonal shift, and you have no idea where to begin? Here’s a few quick and […]
“Ask Baba Yaga” by Taisia Kitaiskaia – Book Review by Marisa McCall
Baba Yaga isn’t your ordinary Crone Goddess. For starters, she lives in what can only be described as “the original mobile home”; literally, a house with chicken legs that can dance and run. She’s moody, a hermit (more or less), and is possibly the inspiration behind the Witch in Hansel and Gretel, who had a […]
