Pillow Talk
Medb, the queen of Ireland’s western province of Connacht, and her husband,
Ailill, are in bed, having a bit of pillow talk. Perhaps a long...
Awaken Your Wild Self: Mindset Spells to Embrace Your Magick and...
In the autumn, as the leaves begin to reveal their exquisite colors, can you give yourself permission to reveal and recognize your own most...
Into The Night Woods …With Moths, Bats, Mushrooms, Fairies, and Other...
Spring has its freshness and promise, summer gets all that lush light, and winter brings cozy idle hours—but autumn is really the most creative...
Romancing Autumn
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Photography by Bridget Beth Collins @flora.forager
Golden trees, gray skies. Autumn is the season of mystery. Eerie nights, liminal days. A time when the...
An Excerpt from The Girl in the Bog by Keith Donohue
Keith Donohue’s new novel, The Girl in the Bog, brings ancient Irish myths and legends into the modern world.
A present-day Irish farmer discovers the...
Paradise Grows
Herein lie gardens to dazzle the senses and boggle the mind. Some are meant for a community, some just for you; in a few,...
A Sentiment of Sunflowers
You are no doubt expecting me to expound on the romance of flowers in Victorian art, but I think I shall instead start with...
Elizabethan Flower Magic: Oberon’s Trick in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”—Oberon...
Cat Women
“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
—Bobbie Ann Mason, “Residents and Transients”
Women and cats have a long history together,...
Enchanted Hinds and Cursed Stags Fairy Tales of Deer and Transformation
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The White Stag by Annie Stegg @anniestegg
You’re walking through the woods one day, just as twilight stars begin to shimmer through the leaves.
Everything...