Summer Folk Ritual
By Phoenix the Elder – Summer Solstice is soon upon us and we move into different rituals in the Season of Fire (spring and summer) than we do in the Season of Night (autumn and winter). Women and their hair have a lifelong relationship throughout their life, the stages of youth or maiden, woman or […]
Energetic “Cord Cutting” Ritual
By Phoenix the Elder – Chord Cutting is not a shamanic ritual, it is an energy healer’s ritual. I went through the first wave of Reiki initiations attunements myself which can be pretty intense in the second of the three attunements and then worked at it very diligently. I went to Reiki Healers also which […]
Slavic Birch Tree Magic
Birch Bark Charming article by Fatima Khadueva – According to multiple folk proverbs and beliefs (described in Alexander Strizhev’s ‘Calendar of Russian Nature’ book), ancient pagan Slavs considered hugging a birch tree as a sign of good luck – it would also give you power and joy. Moreover than this, the birch tree is considered one of […]
Second Moon of Winter 2022
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings dreamers, healers, artists, soul, and moon lovers! Our Second Moon of Winter begins on January 2, 2022, and the full moon will be on January 17th. This is our next 12 degree New Moon in a series of five auspicious new moons. We enter the Element of Earth and […]
First Moon of Winter 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings dreamers, artists, healers and moon lovers, we begin our winter moons now, and the month of building our Marzanna Effigy on the day of the Winter Solstice (there is more information below for the newbies)… First Moon of Winter Saturday, Dec 4, 2021 @ 12° Sagittarius & Solar EclipseFirst […]
Knowledge of Sorcery of the Eastern Slavs
Prepared by Olga Stanton and additions by Phoenix the Elder – Tales of the Sorcery in Eastern Slavic lands are mostly in oral traditions and small talk of whisperers and healers but much of it no one remembers anymore, people still believed in magic and the supernatural but not everyone experiences it. Many believed that […]
First Moon of Autumn and Equinox 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, we’ve now released the Season of Fire and Summer and are ready to enter the Season of Night with our three moons of Autumn. The first new moon of Autumn begins on Monday, Sept 6, 2021, @ 14 degrees Virgo. Our first Full Moon of Autumn (Harvest Moon) […]
The Millennial “Pluto Square Pluto”
By Phoenix the Elder – My son was born at the end of 1983 when Pluto went into Scorpio for the first time when the first Millennials were born. His Pluto sits in his natal chart at 0 degrees Scorpio and his sister was born two years later in 1985, with her Pluto sitting at […]
Slavic Color Symbolism
The Pan-Slavic colors red, blue, and white were defined by the Prague Slavic Congress, 1848. In traditional Slavic traditional art, outfits, embroidery, and decorations, the colors are mainly red, black, white (blue, green, and yellow) depending upon the Slavic country. Here is an outline of what colors symbolically represent:Black colorThe moistness of the earth, the […]
Slavic Midsummer – The Forest Goddess Dziewanna and the Golden Magical Fern Flower
The Slavic and Balkan Fern Flower Mystery – Centuries ago, the lands west of the Vistula were covered with impassable forests and forests. It took days to travel from one settlement to another, and the darkness of the forest was swarming with a variety of forest game. Hundreds of birds and various forest trinkets inhabited […]