When a Wise Woman Passes
We are left to spread
her wisdom like seeds.
excerpt ¤ Sisterdiscordia 2016

In the Mirror of the Wheel, a woman of authority faces us. Her face changes and changes as we scry. When it settles, we look deep and admit everything. We let deep quiet uncover the power of our vulnerability. We listen for messages in the song of the fire, on the winds, in the sound of the river. We celebrate the unseen, and the non-doing nakedness of winter. We offer to the fire everything that is finished in our life from the old year. 

The veil between the worlds is nearly sheer. This is the time to join ceremonially with our ancestors, whose energy dances down through our genes, and slides to coincide in us. We honor and embrace the wealth inherited from them. 

Hallowmas is the witches' New Year's Eve. Giddy, invoking the foremothers to lend us power, we celebrate in that endless ring called a circle. Urgent and earnest, we muscle potent magik into real world manifestation. 

Susa Silvermarie © Mother Tongue Ink 2018
Read more from Susa in We'Moon 2019 Fanning the Flame. 

ART: Alice's Bear Hills II © Carol Wylie  2003 

Carol Wylie  (Saskatoon, SK) is a portrait artist living in Saskatoon on the Canadian Prairies and specializing in the joy of people and their faces. 

Sisterdiscordia (Asheville, NC) is a writer and faery witch. Sharing her life with her true love and cat. When not working at Asheville Raven and Crone creating magic, she can be found barefoot in a creek or under a stack of books. In memory of Bonnie Frontino. Ladyshaper@hotmail.com

Susa Silvermarie (Ajijic, Mexico) I turned 70 in 2017 and began a new life as an immigrant to Mexico. I blog, I write for several local publications and I run a weekly Write-to-a-prompt circle as well as a Writers Salon. I enjoy volunteering with an art program for Mexican children, and I truly love my life on the shore of Lake Chapala. Seeking local kindred spirits—come on down!