Gaia

Mother Nature; spirit of the earth; web of life.

The Two Heavens

You know how when a person or animal you love appears in your dreams? (I hope you’ve experienced that because it’s magical.) Well, one day, I was thinking about my dad and decided to see if I could bring him into my dreams. He’s been gone from the earth for…

A Message from the Bees

Last week I did a very bad thing. I let fear get the best of me. But I’m not sure what else I would have done, because I was protecting my family and the dog. Still, I felt deep sorrow. And I got reprimanded by the bees the following day.…

The Keepers of the Stones

I was in the U.K. this month for two weeks. We saw Scotland and England. When my husband and I decided we would go to England for the second week, I told him that the one must-see in England for me was Stonehenge. “For me, too,” he answered. During my…

Celtic Wheel of the Year

The Wheel of the Year

In the Intuitive Plant Medicine course I have just begun, they talk about the Wheel of the Year and about starting to pay attention to cycles and how you feel during them. There are a few cycles we could pay attention to—like moon cycles (every 28 days), months (12 of…

The Herbal Astrology Oracle

This Mother’s Day, my daughter blessed me with The Herbal Astrology Oracle. I had seen this deck come across as an Amazon suggestion, and it looked like it would be pretty, but I thought, “I have a problem with buying too many decks and I don’t really know astrology, anyway.”…

Eastern Red Cedar

Speaking of Animism…

Oh, we weren’t? Sorry, I have conversations in my head all the time. So, I’m driving along the other day, listening to a podcast, and one of the hosts said “we share 50% of our DNA with trees.” Say what? She also mentioned that we share 25% of our DNA…

The Four Elements

The four elements of nature are Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. (There is a 5th element, called Ether, which is Spirit—or what connects us to Spirit.) This system of thought, it seems, is attributed to the Greeks. But the Chinese culture similarly has 5 elements—wood, earth, water, fire, and metal.…

tarot cards

There’s This Thing Called Tarot

I was taught to be afraid of it. But, like all things I was taught to be afraid of, when I did my own “investigation of the thing,” I found out that it was much different than what I was led to believe. I’ve, instead, found tarot to be a…

Finding My Magick

I almost wanted to rename “Green Witch Ways” to “Finding my Magick.” If I ever write a book, I think that’s what I’ll use as the title. But, I’ve sat down to write this book multiple times and it is daunting. So, I’m going to write bite-sized thoughts in the…