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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...

Numina: The Spiritual Forces at Work in Italian Witchcraft

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 :...