Welcome to JULY! Goddess is opulent and profuse. Berries are thick and dripping on the vines, begging to be added to pies and other summer treats. I am delighting in the farm stands full of tomatoes, peaches, and corn! The air is heavy with humidity and we lift our faces eagerly at the hint of a […]
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MotherRoot – Autumn Equinox Offerings
Blessings of Autumn!! The “official” season of Fall begins today and I for one am grateful for welcome the balance. The early eclipse season of August brought intense energies to bear upon us personally and as a collective. I have been keeping the candles lit here at MotherHouse and including prayers each and every day […]
Goddess Calendar Feast Days and Celebrations for September 2017
Altar of the West a cobalt bowl brimming with water a necklace of sequins or mermaid scales a velvet pouch heavy with coins a black mirror framed with shell amber perfumed oil redolent of spices a brass trident a golden salter two silver chalices a crystal vial of tears ~ Patricia Monaghan, Seasons of the […]
MotherRoot May – The Earth is Her Body
“The new earth quickens as you rise. The May Queen is waiting. Feel the pulsing ground call you to journey, To know the depths of your desire. The May Queen is waiting. Moving through the night, the bright moon’s flight. In green and silver on the plain. She waits for you to return again. Do […]
Goddess Feast Days and Celebrations for April 2017
“The roofs are shining from the rain, The sparrows twitter as they fly, And with a windy April grace The little clouds go by. Yet the back yards are bare and brown With only one unchanging tree– I could not be so sure of Spring Save that it sings in me.” – Sara Teasdale, April […]
Goddess Feast Days and Celebrations for March 2017
Spring, Glorious Spring is coming! After a wild and whacky winter in so many areas and the eclipses of February, we are ready for the enlivening energy of Goddess to revive us and bring forth Her promise of new life, new energy, and new manifestations. The seeds that began their quickening at Imbolc are bursting […]
Goddess Feast Days and Celebrations for February 2017
“The Sun’s path has returned to where it was at Samhain. Take some time to notice the quality of the light, for it is the same now as that shimmering magical glow of late October. But instead of the season of dark and silence before us, in the Northern Hemisphere, the season of light and growth […]
MotherRoot – The Depths of Her Soul – Winter Digest 2016
Welcome to MotherRoot Winter! This evening is the “dark moon” of the year. It is the night that invites us to explore the depths of the Soul of Goddess and our Selves as well. We turn to the Goddesses of Winter who are contracting in preparation for the expansion of new growth in the Spring. […]
MotherRoot Autumn Equinox – Her Shadow and Her Light
Fall Equinox is the balance of dark and light, day and night, and the drama of the descent of the Goddess throughout multiple cultures and traditions reflects the equinox: Demeter and Persephone, Inanna and Erishkegal, Isis and Nepthys. The sweet sorrow of the Autumn season acknowledges that decay and death are always inevitable. Leading us […]
MotherRoot Summer – June 2016 – The Fire of Her Soul
Welcome to MotherRoot Summer – June 2016! The Fire of Her Soul … Goddess is alive! She is movement, manifestation, passion, creation, light, and magic. Evidence of Her beauty and bounty surrounds us in the Northern Hemisphere and with Summer Solstice upon us, we celebrate the light of Goddess. She infuses us, stirs us, sustains us. […]
