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These past few months have been increadibly hard. I've tried throwing myself into various studies, using this isolation/quarantine time to my best.
Yet, I find that inside I'm hurting. I've loved having my family home and around me, yet, there's an ache.
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The snow has finally arrived here in NW PA.
It's a mixed blessing for me. I worry about my young drivers, I worry about my husband who drives for a living, I worry about me driving. Icy snowy roads make me nervous, and here I am, living on top of a hill that I have to descend to get anywhere. As well, to get anywhere in this town, you either have to go up or down a hill.
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Why is the Green God, Lord of Leaf and Tendril, called 'Frith-God,' god of peace?
Not hard.
In days before the White Flag came to denote cessation of hostilities, truce, and peaceful negotiation, the Green Branch bore these meanings, and its bearers.
The wielders of the Green Branch bear no weapon, but the sign of life and growth.
Indeed, they bear the sign of the strong God Who Makes War on None, yet in the end wins nonetheless, through patience and persistence.
In the old language of the Witches, frith means “peace.”
They say that it's also the name of the Goddess of the Rainbow.
Why? Not difficult.
Daughter of Sun and Thunder, contentious couple that they are, she is child of their reconciliation.
Last new moon I set out for our coven meeting just before sunset. Although the day had been gray and rainy throughout, suddenly the clouds parted and everything began to glow with a long, red equinox light.
And there in the east She stood in the sky with Her twin sister, vast and shining.
I live in a gritty urban neighborhood where it's sound practice to be a little chary of people you pass on the street.
After the second Battle of Moy Tura, Macha traveled throughout Ireland. “What news?” they would ask wherever she went, and this is what she told them.
Although there is no evidence that the Kelts of Bronze and Iron Age Ireland observed the winter solstice—unlike their Stone Age predecessors who raised New Grange—Macha's proclamation of peace has long seemed to me a fitting articulation of the hope—and promise—of Yule.
Of all the Sagewoman blogs I have written, this one, Bake Your Lunasa Loaf For Peace, hit a chord.
( http://www.witchesandpagans.com/sagewoman-blogs/away-with-the-fairies/bake-your-lunasagh-loaf-for-peace.html)
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