First Moon of Summer 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, we’ve finally finished our three moons of Spring with more insight and some joyfulness (I hope). Time goes so fast! We now stand at the doorsteps of our First Moon of Summer on Thursday, June 10, 2021 which includes a Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse. The Summer Solstice […]
Slavic Summer Rituals – A Rusalki Summer Solstice
By Phoenix the Elder – Learning to live by the Moon cycles, all thirteen of them, we embrace that the year is divided into four seasonal moons and each of the four seasons have rituals that are attached to them. In Slavic traditions there are the remains of pagan traditions that are celebrated and carry […]
Archaic Pre-Pagan Goddesses: Dziewanna and Marzanna
By Phoenix the Elder – Dziewanna is the Slavic Summer Solstice Goddess and Mother Earth herself. She is closely related to Virgo and Demeter. Dziewanna (pronounced gee-vanna), has filled many roles in our rich culture and in later pagan times she is the daughter of Perun (the lightning God) and Dodola (a fertile Moist Goddess […]
Slavic, Balkan, and Baltic Goddesses
Phoenix the Elder – When personal web pages were new in the early 90s, you could find any goddess you wished, as many of their names were on the web, and there were tens of thousands, Now, everything that was, is practically gone, and the commercial algorithms have taken over for web profits and social […]
Summer Solstice Water Rites & Magical Flower Crowns – Slavic Folk Healing
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – This weekend we did a ceremony of our ancestral Polish Midsummer (Ivana Kupala and Noc Kupala) and made our flower “Crowns” and did our “Water Rites.” We started off by gathering local wildflowers on our hike and bringing them to life with a sacred ritual. I have a great […]
Latvia Symbolism – Latviesu Simboli
Latvian Feminine Symbols: Woman, Goddess, NatureSpring Equinox – Dawn The sign of Dawn or the rising sun sign symbolizes relationship to the top, to the heavenly world, it is the knowledge of humankind and the ideal picture of aggregation model. This sign, symbol language is sunrise and sunset graphical representation. Associated with the constant rhythm […]