Goddess Diana | Ritual Goddess

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...

A Teaching Gifted to Me by My Great-Grandmother, the Strega

by Theresa | Mar 21, 2021 | More on My Books

My great-grandmother was a Strega, an Italian wise woman, witch and healer. I am of this lineage. The lineage was lost or broken in my family and I have spent the last 20 years endeavoring to return it to myself and my family. In 2005, in a shamanic journey, I met my...

The Goddess Diana: the Tree, the Forest, the Grove

by Theresa | Apr 30, 2019 | Strega and Italian-Americana

I have, for many years, been bothered with my inability to fully connect with the descriptions and definitions of the Goddess Diana of Italian lore. Being of the Italian Strega lineage I felt that of course, it should come automatically to me. But the truth is, until...