Blog Posts
Recap of the Ancestral Pilgrimage to Ireland 2019
In the spring of 2019, I led a group of women on my second sacred pilgrimage to Ireland—the land of their ancestors and a very special place that has preserved much of the mysteries of earth-based, pre-Christian traditions. We journeyed there with our own intentions...
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Infusing Folk Magic into your Home (with Magical Protection Salt)
Home is very important to me. Sure, I like to get out into the world to learn and connect and get my extrovert on, but at my core, I am an earth mama who really appreciates a cozy space to help me feel grounded. After living many years in a 100-year-old cottage, we...
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Rooted Magic Retreat: A Look Inside
This past autumn, when the veils were still thin and the season of ancestors was upon us, I hosted eight women in my home for the Rooted Magic Retreat. Our intentions were to come together to greet the ancestral season of going inward. We all wanted to reconnect to...
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Season of Shadow & Being the Moon Mna
One of my favorite things about traveling on pilgrimage to ancestral lands and sacred sites is to be able to connect to the women of that land—the women who hold the secrets of the ancestors of that place in their bones. When I traveled to Ireland for the first time...
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Ancestral Tinglings in Maine
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sharing my intentions and preparation for a recent trip I took to Maine—the land my matrilineal ancestors first settled on in the early 1600s. (You can read those posts here and here.) It was important for me, as a European descended...
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How to Research & Prepare for Ancestral Pilgrimage to Colonized Lands
I find that the more I share my experiences of connecting with my ancestors and traveling to the places they once lived, the more questions I get about my process and approach to doing this work. As a western woman who appreciates structure and likes to ask a lot of...
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Traveling to Colonized Land & Healing Oppressor Ancestry
Over the past few years, I have consciously been making pilgrimages to the lands of my ancestors. It usually begins with a dream (either sleeping or waking) that compels me to plant my feet on the soils my ancestors once walked and are buried under. Last year, I...
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Exploring the Menstrual Rituals of Our Ancestors
In my lifelong research of the people I come from, I have been drawn to the ways my people signified important moments in a human being’s life. For instance, the way they venerated their dead, birthed their babies, chose and committed to a partner, and (of particular curiosity for me) marked and honored their monthly moon cycle or menstrual bleed.
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Seriously…let’s talk social media and phone addiction
One of the topics Tim and I tend to bicker about is our phones. I don’t like it when he checks his email first thing in the morning while still in bed or peeks at a message coming through when I’m saying something to him and he doesn’t like how I grab mine when we’re...
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