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New Courses in 2023: Learn How to Care for the Spiritual Containers or “Membranes” That Keep Life Systems Healthy
In the teachings I have received from my great-grandmother, an Italian Strega, it is time for us to attend to the containers that support, nourish and protect life systems. We call these containers or boundaries, "membranes." This is work that is crucial at this time...
Meditations & Inspiration
An Invitation from the Darkness for this Weekend of the New Year
The WINTER SOLSTICE AND JOURNALING RITUAL created by myself and Yael Wolfe is a perfect tool for getting in touch with your deep soul desires this coming weekend from which to better set your sails of intention for 2023. Yael and I created this as a solstice ritual...
Goddess
The Lure of the Amazon by Eduardo Barros Prado: Further Information on the Amazon Women or Icamiabas of Brazil
In my previous post about the Amazon women, Icamiabas, or women without husbands on the Rio Nhamundá in Brazil, I was thrilled to find actual documented evidence of an encounter with the women by a man named Eduardo Barros Prado in the 1950s. I located this...
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The Lure of the Amazon by Eduardo Barros Prado: Further Information on the Amazon Women or Icamiabas of Brazil
In my previous post about the Amazon women, Icamiabas, or women without husbands on the Rio Nhamundá in Brazil, I was thrilled to find actual documented evidence of an encounter with the women by a man named Eduardo Barros Prado in the 1950s. I located this...
Short Stories
For my daughter: A Roadmap to the Passionate Universe
#1 Assume there is no such thing as control. Then it will be less surprising when cars swerve off the road or planes fall from the sky. Instead, cultivate awe for the fact that cars stay on the road at all, that drivers agree to keep to their side of the yellow line...
Strega & Italian Americana
Neolithic Priestesses from Passo di Corvo Italy
Digging more deeply into my spiritual lineage of Italian Strega/Janarra, I came upon this beautiful priestess or Goddess figure from the Passo di Corvo Neolithic site, dated to the 5th and 4th millennium BCE, in the province of Foggia in Southeast Italy. Passo di...
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An Invitation from the Darkness for this Weekend of the New Year
The WINTER SOLSTICE AND JOURNALING RITUAL created by myself and Yael Wolfe is a perfect tool for getting in touch with your deep soul desires this coming weekend from which to better set your sails of intention for 2023. Yael and I created this as a solstice ritual...
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About Divination
Deverra: The Italian Sweeper Fairy—Polydaimonism in Ancient Italy
“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...