Journal Musings

It’s that solstice time again. The mid year turning point, where we are half way through and have time to reflect. Have we learnt anything? Well, it’s been a weird one for sure. There is so much going on out of our own bubbles – and I don’t mean our new social bubbles that the government has said we can have – I mean out own spheres. Our own bubbles of energy. Whatever your views of this Covid time, there is no doubt that it has affected everyone. You may have diversified you

Today is the shortest day and longest night. The Winter Solstice. The pinnacle of Yule Tide.  Thank the Pagans for Christmas. It’s not all about babies in mangers. It’s much deeper than that. As you know, I am a lone witch. I don’t do full blown ceremonies with masses of people at Stonehenge. I like a more subtle, carefully planned little moments of magic in my own space. I’ve been asked what I actually do. I’m reluctant to share a step by step procedure of my evening, as it

Here is is again. The Solstice. It hardly seems any time at all since I was writing about this last year, and now it’s here again. Time seems to be marked with events that stick in your mind that aren’t just birthdays. For me, the shortest day and the longest, darkest night, is a real focal point of my year. This year the solstice occurs tomorrow, Wednesday December 21st at 10:44 GMT- so for all of you who want to greet the new sun as it rises on the shortest day, you don’t h