Up until yesterday, the 7 of Swords was one of my least favorite Tarot cards: Meanings routinely include: * Being unable to let go of past, as embodied by little guy looking over his shoulder at the two lonely swords left behind. * Inability to recognize personal...
OKAY! First of all, Mercury and Neptune don’t give a pimply-rat’s tush about you any more than the Sun cares about whether it’s giving you melanoma or the Moon caring about your romantic midnight picnic. If these planets actually have a...
The cover art for my forthcoming book! I love it! Release date set for May, 2015! If you haven’t already, please “Like” my page on Facebook. When I get 500 “Likers,” I’ll start giving away fabulous prizes....
Saturday was the annual Mermaid Parade at Coney Island. I call it The Greatest Day of the Year and for extremely good reason. I mean, look at this: Where else does your mayor dress up like a pirate next to “The Other Mayor” who bangs a huge drum and leads...
Sometimes, when I wake in the morning, my first thought tries to give me a clue about the day. It’s often pretty nebulous. Most of the time, they’re pretty tame. Sometimes, they’re odd but turn out to be exciting. Yesterday, I woke up with what...
This isn’t real, fortunately. But the description unfortunately rings a little too true in describing the effects on the minds of believers. Don’t fear the Retrograde, y’all! It’s only an astronomical optical illusion.* (*Except when it comes...
June is one of my craziest months–between the Mermaid Parade and Pride weekend, this Witch doesn’t sleep from Memorial Day until July. On top of all of that, yesterday was my Coven’s Litha (Summer Solstice) rite. Many of our rites are highly ecstatic...
When I was a little girl, an incredible librarian at my elementary school read us stories of the Baba Yaga: the scary Witch-lady living on the edge of the forest in Russian and Ukranian folklore. The (mostly) direct translation here is “Little...
It’s the Strawberry Full Moon! The Full Moon in June is labeled this way because in this part of the world (North America), the strawberries are finally ripe! It’s true–last Saturday at our Farmer’s Market, the beautiful red berries made a...
Look at this! This month, I was profiled on Amelia Quint’s Cosmic Chat! As you can probably guess, my Scorpio Moon is getting a total rise out of all the attention from a single blog post. Or maybe that’s my Venus in Leo…..can’t decide. Amelia...
