Deverra: The Italian Sweeper Fairy—Polydaimonism in Ancient Italy

by Theresa | Jan 12, 2023 | About Divination, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

“You need a sweep!” Was one of the common pronouncements on my way to becoming a  stick diviner. This meant one needed to have “dirt,” both psychic and physical, cleaned off of them. There were all kinds of “brooms,” one made of fern, one made of feathers, one made of...

December 21: Winter Solstice—Manifesting with the Goddess Diana and the Mirror of the Moon—Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Dec 18, 2022 | Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

Winter solstice is a time for birthing. It is the birth of light, the birth of the sun. What do we want to birth? What do we want to pull forward from the other dimensional realms into this one? What is this? Read about why I am creating an Abruzzo-Italiana Wheel of...

The Goddess Diana, Lake Nemi and the Mirror of the Moon South of Rome

by Theresa | Dec 16, 2022 | Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

Italian Goddess Diana is often associated with Greek Artemis. The two are categorized as hunters and Amazons, implicating them as descendants of an ancient moon lineage. Diana, however, was interacted with long before the Romans and way before her eventual association...

Icamiabas: Amazon Warrior Women in Precontact Americas

by Theresa | Dec 8, 2022 | Goddess, More on My Books, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

While researching the truth and myth around ancient warrior women called Amazons  for my book The Amazon Pattern, I stumbled into unexpected territory —Amazon warrior women—Icamiabas—in South America. It soon became clear that I was sitting atop a huge mountain of...

November 2: All Souls Day—Moving Ancestors Through a Portal of Fire—Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Oct 23, 2022 | Strega and Italian-Americana

Samhain/Halloween is October 31. All Saints Day is November 1. All Souls Day is November 2. In Italy, All Souls Day is a day to remember the ancestors and visit their graves. To anyone who is Catholic it is also a day where one can pray souls out of purgatory. This is...

September 23: The Goddess Ceres — Grain and Harvest Festa (Autumnal Equinox)—Theresa C. Dintino’s Abruzzo-Americana Wheel of the Year

by Theresa | Sep 18, 2022 | Goddess, Strega and Italian-Americana

A celebration of grain, all things cereal and The Harvest.   In the Northern Hemisphere at Autumn Equinox, we begin the movement into darkness. Equinoxes are days of equal light and dark. After today, days will get shorter as we descend into the dark time, beginning...