Third Moon of Autumn 2021
By Phoenix the Elder – Greetings dreamers, artists, moon lovers, spiritual ones, and healers… welcome to our third and last moon cycle of Autumn. Blessings on your New Moon, which starts on Thursday, 4 Nov. 2021, and our Full Moon on November 19th with a partial Lunar Eclipse. We enter the element of Water this […]
Neptunia and her Dreamers
By Phoenix the Elder – Neptune is the most elusive, foreboding, and dreamy planet we have, and the deliverer of natural illusionary soul effects that we can experience. For a long time after my T-Square (six planets) underwent a transformation with Uranus, and then Neptune in the late 90s and early 00s… I had learned […]
Waxing Like the Moon: Women Folk Healers in Rural Western Ukraine
By Sarah D. Phillips, University of Indiana – Once a woman came to see me… she says to me, “I can’t sleep, and I’m so weak.” I asked her, “Did something frighten you?” “No,” she didn’t want to tell me. I began to pour the wax, I said, “Something has frightened you—either a man, or […]
Divine Feminine Celestial Horses: Wind Horses, Spirit Horses, Star Horses, Midnight Horses, Horses of Frost
By Phoenix the Elder, Edited by Sarah Burnstein – This article is a compilation of writings which piece together the tales of both the Horse Cloud Women and Celestial Wind Horse Women. The stories of these women were lost from our consciousness and what remains can be found scattered in folk stories and myths from a […]
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 […]
The Watery Soulful Flight of Siren and Mermaid People
By Phoenix the Elder and contributions – Throughout the long journey of written and image arts mythology, the mermaid and siren have gotten confused sometimes and mixed up with each other and have often criss-crossed through times and eras. There is a reason for this when it comes to women’s history and its recording… bascially […]
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 […]
Ziva, Zhiva, Zywie and Siwa: Slavic Goddess of the Waters
By Phoenix the Elder (compilation) – I searched and did a collection on the Goddess Zhiva, Siwa or Ziva as she is known. I work with Slavic Fire and Water Rituals in both my folk healing work, my apprentice work and my greater collective work. The Living Waters of Zhiva, Siva, Ziva is one of […]
Water Goddesses – The Waters of Life and of Death
By Phoenix of Elder Mountain – Our life giving waters on earth have the most primordial roots because water is a spirit element. Elements have the most ancient guardians from the water Dragons to the newer Ravens, who fetch both the “Water of Life” and the “Water of Death”. The lame crow obtains cures from […]