strega | Ritual Goddess

Neolithic Priestesses from Passo di Corvo Italy

by Theresa | Feb 2, 2023 | Goddess, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

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...

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...

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...

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 :...