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my village witch witchery of the southern highlands of old appalachia my village witch witchery of the southern highlands of old appalachia menu skip to content home about search search for miles to go people and yet i am strangely calm september 7 2018 ashevillewitch leave a comment my year of travel has commenced again i ve just returned from philadelphia pagan pride a sassy and fun event that included for me two classes one keynote speech one closing ritual with dancing and a perfect little wedding with piskey banjo man i got to hang out with some fancy deitsch folk and compare notes on folkloric practices sunday i fly to st louis and drive on to the walnut valley festival my fiction project takes place minimally to be honest at the festival and i plan to hear lots of music and do lots of writing so that may get some place after all i ve tried fiction a few times and i write and write and then run out of steam speaking of writing i will be working with the amazing annie to finally finally get out a monthly newsletter those were so easy when i simply put all your email addresses in a bcc and mailed you some thoughts alas nothing is so simple as that and there are templates to consider and mailmunch to appease anyway possibly soon let this also serve as your reminder that dark moon is here and it is time for your considered witchery like when isn t i ll be doing a little job of work tonight and watching for results earth works is selling briskly and if you haven t gotten your copy you can go to the village shop and order one i ll sign it and send it as soon as ever i can i ve moved to my website january 2 2016 ashevillewitch leave a comment you can read the new posting here http www myvillagewitch com the day after i m slowing moving the post to my website so come and join me over there please the week between december 28 2015 ashevillewitch 3 comments i m meeting with my web guru tomorrow to move all of this blog to the new website and to conquer the world of mailchimp so that newsletters from me can at last re commence in the meantime in this week between i m reposting a few facebook thoughts for those of you who aren t there i have mostly been baking and delivering apple butter today but have spent enough time here to feel the sense of some folks being overwhelmed by the season awash in personal and cultural grief trying to claw some joy from this season of returning light i sat at my altar at mid day simply sat with a single candle burning i counted from ten to one in gaeilge to see if i could then i dreamed a bit in that dream you were heavy but resilient you were working to ground an d to keep yourself and those you love shielded you were paging through a seed catalogue and making a list you were smiling though the world holds chaos you were confident even as you kenned that the challenges would continue into the new year you were strong and loving and whole you were ready we are ready let us together weave this new world even as we midwife the old one through its transition in spite of the dour pronouncement of the meteorologist who is dressed like a sex worker many of us don t consider the winter solstice to be the beginning of winter since winter started for us at samhaintide we are looking at midwinter just so s you know of course i am contemplating the wren boys of boxing day and i am wondering what wren women would get up to thinking thinking obviously today this wren woman is going to be sewing a shroud but in 2016 when the wren women take to the high roads and by roads what shall we be doing i insist on six more weeks of luxurious endarkenment i m not coming out of my cave until imbolc a blustery day december 3 2015 ashevillewitch leave a comment here in this blustery day sit in silence for a few minutes if you can and listen to your breath let the wind spin the hamster thoughts from your head and down the road there is sorrow in the world in your world there is fury there too but this old earth has seen so much violence and fury and sorrow for today i invite you to let it go and focus on the small and tangible graces before you as oriana proposed yesterday practice kindness kindness to the stranger kindness to the other kindness to your family especially the ones who misunderstand and disrespect you kindness to the earth and give the divines a break for today do your work do it well sleep the sleep of the just homeliness practice december 3 2015 december 3 2015 ashevillewitch leave a comment last night in celebration of homeliness i sat in a comfy chair with a good light shining over my left shoulder and i read a book the first chapter of linnets and valerians to be exact there was some soft old jazz on the radio the house was quiet i worked for about fifteen years in a bookshop those of you who are avid readers may think that is a dream job and in many ways it was but not in the way you might think it made me stop reading for pleasure i taught myself to speed read many of the new arrivals so that i could give our customers a sense of what they were getting they trusted us to steer them towards books they d like and away from ones that weren t to their taste they knew we knew what they liked our regular customers and we did it started with fiction i found i couldn t read it for fun not even authors i really liked non fiction was safe for a while because most of our customers were looking for recommendations on fiction but after a decade all reading was work i could write reviews good and thorough reviews quickly and efficiently though i had spent little time with what makes reading a book an experience of beauty and power i haven t worked in the shop since 2012 and i easily got back my ability to read non fiction it helps in my own work of course so i enjoy it as well as benefitting from ingesting the materials so my homely goal for now is to re learn the pleasure of reading a good story of getting lost in strong characters that become people i know soft jazz a good light a well loved old book friend i think i can do this in praise of homeliness december 2 2015 december 2 2015 ashevillewitch 2 comments homely simple but cozy and comfortable as in one s own home simple and unpretentious oxford dictionary plain or ordinary but pleasant i have returned home from nearly a week away not entirely unpacked looking forward to routine reasserting itself in the morning the satisfying click of the electric kettle means there will soon be a cuppa nettle tea and a shortbread cookie the thought of sleeping in my own bed tonight holds me in thrall as i mark the hours until bedtime my mail yes we still get mail hereabouts held two cards from friends a book that was expected and a small sturdy box that holds black drawing salve from a colleague in missouri sometimes i feign confusion on complicated social or political issues by stating flatly i m a simple country woman i am going to spend some time reveling in that as winter spreads her wings over us and the dear land i will do some sampling of new things as i return to old neglected favorites like spinning canning learning gaeilge playing the fiddle badly painting with watercolor paints i am going to live and celebrate quite a homely life for these few weeks a life simply and joyfully lived addendum here are some words i am considering in addition to homely sturdy simple comfortable nibble a book to consider reading is linnets and valerians by elizabeth goudge call you local bookshop and surprise them by ordering it also a child s christmas in wales by dylan thomas they ll have that one in stock for the holidays a review of l v beginning from here december 2 2015 ashevillewitch 2 comments what if you chose to be proactive in this tower time of ours what if we each of us simply said enough is enough there s a truism in the non profit world about tackling a big complicated problem how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time let s take a bite together to secure our resilience in these chaotic times a tiny step into freedom from fear a wee dance step into the circle we all long to create today right now i am going to my altar in the middle of the day and am saying a word or two to themselves time to fly sisters and brothers we have been too long looking down fearing the day we don t have time to dillydally or fret about things we can t fix time to figure out what needs fixing and see if we have the tools to do it i suspect we do shall we a wee holiday toolkit november 23 2015 ashevillewitch leave a comment many of us are leaving our comfy hearths behind us to venture into the houses of kith and kindred hoping for a slice of pie without too much sturm und drang is that even possible in these chaotic and polarized times maybe maybe with a few guiding principles let s see if we can create a sensible and helpful list shall we food there can be a fair amount of guilt and shame about this you can be judged for eating too little for eating too much for having seconds on mashed potatoes but not on broccoli you may be bullied into submission by grandma s gimlet eye and wagging finger know your limits before you go in are you a low carb er let em know you won t be eating a basket full of rolls no matter how delish they are you will be exclaiming over the crispness of the turkey skin helping toss the perfect salad suggesting brown rice over uncle ben s are you a vegetarian or vegan in a meat eating family vice versa know what you will and won t eat and don t be bullied also don t be a jerk about it take the high ground drink if you do don t dull the political conversation by getting drunk take a long walk practice some art or craft watch parades on tv speaking of which the world is a terribly complex place right now and you may be spending time with people whose views make you want to vomit you can argue with them for the whole time you are together or you can let it go it will depend on your family dynamic and your level of political engagement i suspect here are some general tools for your holiday toolkit use any that may work for you ground yourself and keep your shields up when you feel triggered take lots of walks insist on continuing your daily meditation prayer time however you need to frame that for your family try not to feel you need to jump into every fight you are invited to sometimes the best thing to do is nothing sometimes the best thing to say is nothing silence nodding smiling your mysterious smile know where you are willing to be flexible and where you aren t does it really matter that your cousin thinks vegans are weird probably not and the single most important things to carry with you your sense of humor and your big loving golden heart practice kindness whenever possible practice patience when need be be the kind of guest you d want at your table and remember you can go home soon be well tend your heart travel safe eat pie ssshhh be quiet november 17 2015 ashevillewitch 2 comments also also the mansplaining has got to stop as we reach deeply into the real meaning of this thing we call tower time which is actually an enormous cultural shift that will smite us all we are all called to do our work sometimes knowing what that work is can be confusing i get that but i am sure that privileged men stepping in to carefully explain to women what we already know and doing it in a condescendingly superior fashion that is not your work you are not helping you are not being a helper you are indulging in more patriarchal malarkey that is damaging your human being cred seriously stop it do your work and let us do ours what is a witch november 14 2015 ashevillewitch 4 comments a witch is a woman who cannot be controlled who has the forces of the universe at her fingertips that is why you are confused you think you must bow and scrape and make nice when that isn t what s required of you at all not at all no more forelock tugging sisters no more kneeling on broken glass we have lit the signal fires we have saved 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