Posts in the “WONDERS” category
Wild Blue Yonder
by angeliska on August 8, 2013
August 8th is the twenty-seventh anniversary of my mother’s death. Every year when this day rolls around again I take stock of the condition of my heart, and pause to consider my path – the one that has led me (…)
MARDI GRAS DAYS OF YORE – CIRCA 2009
by angeliska on February 6, 2013
I’m opening a time capsule into a Mardi Gras day of yore that I never got around to writing about – I have a few of those stowed away in my dusty attic of an archive, and it’s just not (…)
New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree
by angeliska on December 31, 2012
The turning of year draws close, we pause, here at the limen between what’s done and what’s to come – the snake’s lips meet its own tail and we ride the circle, blind and naked as babes. The reflexive curl (…)
Winter Solstice – Bright Stars + Firelight
by angeliska on December 20, 2012
The winter solstice is nearly upon us – this one so trepidatiously anticipated as a harbinger of either the end of the world, or the beginning of a new era of human conscious – depending on you talk to. For (…)
Spirit Song Rock
by angeliska on November 20, 2012
Right. So, instead of getting married on 11.11.12 – I drove out to the hills, out to the place where the earth reaches up to touch the stars. The place where my bones come from, the place where my people (…)
Autumn Heralds
by angeliska on September 24, 2012
The Oxblood Lilies are telling me it’s fall now – the autumnal equinox has crossed over us with candles lit, and the scent of burning cinnamon bark. I mean to have a Mabon feast for the Witches’ Thanksgiving, but it (…)
MOONSHADOWS
by angeliska on May 23, 2012
A few days ago, I got to witness my first solar eclipse. A strangely gentle and peaceful experience, all over too soon. The sun set below the horizon before we could see it fully obscured, alas. The moon took bigger (…)
FULL MOON IN SCORPIO
by angeliska on May 6, 2012
Tonight, as I wait for this epic Supermoon in Scorpio to rise above the treetops, I want to take a moment to write about some of the thoughts that have been buzzing around my head recently. Ever since I retuned (…)
FLORALIA
by angeliska on May 1, 2012
I am alas, not out a’Maying, drinking rose cordials in meadows or naked night-swimming under the moon. I am not laughing and dancing around a Maypole, or jumping over bonfires, like a fleet-footed fairy over the flames. Instead I am (…)
Happy Birthday Pandora!
by angeliska on July 22, 2011
Today marks a very special holiday indeed – the birthday of my dearest darling, Miss Pandora Gastelum. In lieu of getting to celebrate her whelping with her (the travesty of why this cannot be is detailed below), I am writing (…)