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...
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...
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...
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...
by Theresa | Sep 4, 2022 | Strega and Italian-Americana
Numen/numina: Vaguely referred to as the life force in plants in many texts on Italian witchcraft. Maddeningly little information available on it. After all these years, I decided it was time to tackle this one to the ground. From dictionary.com :...