Ghosts of the Cave: Primeval Grandmothers
Phoenix the Elder – We had lost our connection to woman a long time ago, the free, honored, wise, and healthy woman from our first beginnings. I ran across the word Sabina and Sabine and it shined a light when I had it pop into my thoughts. I looked it up and it means “Woman […]
Old Weavers of Spider Magic
By Phoenix the Elder – The Weavers of Old are a great mystery to us now, long forgotten and leftover drops, she finds herself in a few folktales and mythology around the world, whose husbands and consorts were given the main focus to be handed down to future generations up til today. But steeped into […]
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 […]
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 […]
First Moon of Winter & Winter Solstice 2020
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, our Winter Moons are finally upon us and we have a powerful week coming up as our Winter Moons have arrived… Monday, Dec 14, 2020: First New Moon of Winter @ 10:16 am (cst)Total Solar Eclipse3rd Moon of Six “23” degree moonsGeminids Meteor ShowerMonday, Dec 21: Winter Solstice200 […]
When Fairy Tales, Wonder Tales and Magic Tales become real
By Phoenix – I like it when full circles return of any kind, even my own. This is no different for grandmother, who was demoted over three millenniums. By the 12th century her leadership of the world and shamanism cultures were invisible and completely forgotten except for a few old souls that remained. Same is […]
Marzanna 2023 / 2024
By Phoenix the Elder – It’s that time of year again to honor the Goddess of Winter, the Grandmother, and we do that in the ritual of the Ancient Slavic Marzanna, Morena, or Maslenitsa. I have worked about 98% with women this lifetime, and regardless of where you are from on the earth and what your […]
The Ural Chudi
Numerous legends about the “Chud,” about the “Chud people, ” have a peculiar fate. Having arisen on the basis of real facts and events in the period of the formation of Old Russian statehood and the first campaigns of Novgorod to the northeast, these legends then gained an independent life , being brightly colored by […]
Goddess of Winter
By Phoenix the Elder – Its that time of year again to honor the Goddess of Winter – Marzanna, an archaic night goddess and primal connection to her shamanistic and animistic mysteries of the past, present and future. These pre-religious rites are still done in very simple ways today and I hope you join us again […]
She Wolves of Midwinter, Slavic & Balkan Animism in the traditions of a Shaman (part 2/2)
By Phoenix the Elder – Continued from Part 1: Animism and my Shaman dreaming ritual: Zack is in High School and does drugs weekly, and because of that, he was weak in the dream and had lost power and if he continues this behavior in his waking life, by 30 he will have no more connection […]