Third Moon of Winter 2023
By Phoenix the Elder – We finally made it past Midwinter and now enter our 3rd and final Moon of the Lunar Seasonal Year. Congratulations for those who have completed another full year of moon work. We have no 13th Moon this year so we move forward into our Last Moon of Winter. The New […]
First Moon of Winter 2022
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings Dreamers, hope you are all doing well. The Winter Solstice starts our journey off for the last of the four seasons on December 21st and I consider the Winter Solstice magical energy to last until the first quarter moon on January 1, 2023. Our first (of three) New Moons of Winter […]
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 […]
The Celebration of Winter’s Death
By Phoenix the Elder – The three moons of Winter each year, has many meanings in its cultural celebrations, in food traditions and gatherings. It also has its songs, poetry and folklore equally to the harshness of winter and the symbol of death. Winter is no stranger to death, as a complex myth and symbol, […]
Behind the Traditional Cloth
By Phoenix the Elder – I ran across some Kursk Embroidery from Russia and these particular designs are called “Months”. Kursk is South of Moscow in Russia near the Ukraine border. There is a not a definite oral tradition explanation for these but they seem to represent growth of cycles. In nature, there is no seed that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Protection of houses against evil in the region of Mazovia, Poland
Article by Llamus Dworski – People in the old Polish countryside were very particular about maintaining certain rites and preparing protective accessories in their household and the whole farm enclosure. These customs stemmed from pre-Christian Slavic protective rituals, and – despite the centuries of influence of the Christian church – they survived in continuity for […]
She Wolves of Midwinter, Slavic & Balkan Animism in the traditions of a Shaman (part 1/2)
By Phoenix the Elder – I begin with the Romanian traditions as an ancient Wolf Clan people. The Balkan Romanian, Serbian and Slavic traditions such as Poland and Russia also wolf clan people and this includes the more divine aspect of woman and her life, which were part of our shamanic understandings in the first […]
Soul Mystery: Slavic Ancestors of the Night
Compilation and additions by Phoenix of Elder Mountain – What is demonology and daemonology? Originally, languages went from only gesturing with the verbal spoken, until the first written languages were created later. Thus the origin of “daemon” in the older context when humans had less karma, meant a higher, supernatural, impersonal force, a power that […]