Welcome 2023

What Doing Auntie Sky? No idea, but I’m having fun and healing from the past!

Almost a year in my new home. Still at the same place of employment three years and counting. Tarot reader and wandering solitary Priestess I am at peace with not being who I thought I was going to be, but what makes me happy.

Here is a message I sent out to my tarot clients, and perhaps it’s something you need to see too…

Welcome to 2023!

I’ve pulled a focus card for everyone this year. It’s not an easy one for those of you who study tarot. I pulled the three of swords. Typically this card indicates that there is some division or unhappiness ahead. Don’t let that discourage you!
I like to think of it as it’s time to break up with some toxic habits. There will be sorrow, and there will be joy. Being gentle with yourself and allowing yourself to grieve the loss will enable you to bring in what you actually want to manifest in your life.

Auntie Skyfae

Remember, only pour what you want to drink into your glass.. Happy New Years and welcome to 2023.

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Avalon Walking

Free-style-writing

I am Avalon walking. I am a bridge between the peoples. I am the joy of love and laughter. I serve community and balance. I serve to heal the rifts between previous judgments and current reality. I serve courage and compassion. I serve God, Goddess and Godex. I will see ALL the people treated with fairness and love. In the unlikely path of Athena and Hades, I love both dearly and serve them with a spirit of justice and refuge, peace and recuperation. I hope to build the formation of fellowships that give way to better understanding between the people of this world.

Doing Nineth house work when it’s Empty

Every time I come across someone doing readings online, I’m always curious what Deity has to say about my path work.

There are so many paths out before me, that I find myself paralyzed by the inability to make a choice because I am terrified of getting it wrong, and I’m worried that my ideas to help and to spread knowledge has more to do with ego than helping people. Can we say past religious and spiritual teacher trauma?

I worry about the colonialism inherent in my perspective growing up white on Turtle Island (North America) will do more harm than good. Sharing my healing journey feels like tooting my own horn, and building myself a platform, elevating myself and setting myself up as a false prophetess. Can we say lifelong trauma, depression, anxiety, CPTSD and till recently untreated ADHD?

The root of this, as I sit with the uncomfortable feeling is fear that I have nothing to add to the conversation. That my voice, white presenting, female, fat… has no place at the table.

So I sit here drowning in inaction. I am passionate about exposing white supremacy in Wiccan and pagan spaces. I am passionate about healing. I am passionate that solitary path-workers, are just as important and deserve a place and space to offer their voice or word to the ongoing conversation that is the evolving spirituality of becoming re-naturalized to the earth and moving towards nature centered work that is effective, ethical and equitable.

The work seems overwhelming and my scope unfocused. I’ve been awash in ideas, all unrealized for years now. I happened to be on the clock app this morning and a creator, another path-worker shared some insight as the live feed was generating its own energy – insight for the spectators as well as the practitioner / host. In that space it was shared that perhaps the idea, task, project, path does not need to be so categorized.

One of the tidbits that was mentioned, in the group that had gathered was to examine our own birth charts for the 9th house and the relation to the moon to that house.

My 9th house, is empty. The 9th house has to do with our search for meaning, spirituality, awareness and exploration.

My moon however is hanging out in the 6th house which has to do with service, self improvement, and the state of our health.

So… the absolutely funny thing for me is that I am stuck between how I am going to serve the community, and share my healing journey so that perhaps one person somewhere along the way will not hurt as I have, will not feel alone as I have, and perhaps might find their joy more easily than I.

Its no wonder to me, that I struggle to define all that I feel about spirit work when the 9th house is empty?!?

Some people say that the empty house can indicate that these lessons are not work that you are pulled to explore by spirit / choose at reincarnation.

I do not know what I think about it all. However, I am going to work on speaking, in words, voice.. something. I’d be curious to hear what astrology witches have to say about empty houses in your chart if you happen to know of published work, or your own two cents I find myself greatly curious cause I have quite a few empty houses and I have not yet experienced the personal ring of truth for how that can pluck the strings of fate in my life.

Credit to Peachkka for hosting the space that allowed this realization to come into the light.

Camera Magic

I am ecstatic to announce that I have a camera once more! No, I’m not a professional nor do I have any idea what I’m doing! However, I find it fun and beautifully fulfilling with many, MANY bouts of trial and error trying to find which setting to use to capture the photo I see. These are some shots I fell in love with from this last weekend at the Aquarian Tabernacle Church in Index Washington.

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  Marigold Garden Guardian

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  Clematis after the petals fall

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  Aphrodite Blessing

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  Gracious Heart

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  Fountain Water

Preserving the Balance

Another reason Self Care is Essential

A wise friend of mine, Mary from Walks Within posted something on their Facebook about different methods of ‘unwinding’. One of the options was to be given permission to NOT be helpful.

I know I know…. what sorcery is this?!

So I replied that I was using this method lately and even using it to create better boundaries. for myself as well as others. Then it came to me, that on some level my historic inability to accept help or ask for help can be another way to make other people feel indebted to me.

Well that is a nasty thought….

Luckily, for my own sanity, I have been working very hard to let people help. To ask for it and to graciously accept help when offered. In addition to offering help myself as a nurturing personality. It is a part of the energy exchange that makes up a healthy human existence.

Healthy human what now?!

That’s right. Healthy Human existence. I have been informed that it is a possibility and a reality for some! When we do nothing but give of ourselves, we create a gap in the cycle of energy between ourselves and others.

We see this imbalance in the condition of our natural environment, in overworked societies, in the rise of mental health problems. The cycle of give and take is essential to our well being.

Isn’t that a kick in the chest….

The idea that we, as a society and me, as an individual has short changed myself and helped create imbalance and undue advantage of my generosity, and the possibility of manipulating others into liking me, or feeling indebted to me is a hard pill to swallow.

Sadly I think my enlightened self has a point.

Another interesting point is the Fae Element. It is part of the Fae condition that you do not thank a Fairy. Never. Not in so many words, not personally. It can breed bad luck. There other ways to express gratitude and those are a must, and easily understood. Humans without the touch of Fae do not understand these other methods of gratitude. Therefore, it is my hypothesis of those of us who are Fae-Touched share a natural disinclination to accept help. We are also often not understood that we are expressing gratitude in our language but not understood by many humans who are not touched by our magic.

Advisement…. being an asshole is NOT being ‘fairy’ and gas-lighting people into your reality and dismissing theirs is abusive, not magical.

As a Witch, my primary goal is to see to the preservation of Balance. Not only of the world outside of me, but within myself as well. As within, so without.

Personal Resources for your Book of Shadows

Zipped Collections Here

My dream, (Okay… ONE of them) is to have a totally scrap booked B.O.S. that looks like the book from Practical Magic. While I do know the talented retailer that is making THAT happen – it’s always nice to throw a binder together and do what you can with the resources you have. Many thanks to this artist for making their work available for private use!

What are your favorite Book of Shadows resources? If you are looking for suggestions on how to compile your own BoS, Explore Wicca has a pretty decent article on this and other topics.

Your Spirit Twin, the Higher Self

During our time in Gemini this year, I facilitated a meditation to meet one’s higher-self, what I like to call your spirit twin. They are the soul of who decides what lessons to learn each incarnation, and their perspective has a very wide view of things. My friend Mary has written an amusing post about it here in her blog that pretty much sums up exactly how I feel some days. It was just after a hard day at work around the coven stead and many welcomed the opportunity to lay down and relax.

My goal with this meditation was to help facilitate perspective gained by many life time’s worth of knowledge, and learning. My summary for it below:

Sometimes so many options, viewpoints and opinions face us that it is hard to make our choices. As the Sun travels through the constellation of the Gemini Twins and the warm weather invites action of all kinds it can be hard to make some decisions. The ATC would like to invite you on a special meditative journey to meet your Higher Self!

You do not need to let your options overwhelm you, let the wisdom and perspective you have gained in your many lifetimes guide you!

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The meditation was written back in 2016 while I was attending http://www.wiccanseminary.edu and it was sparked by the idea that my own higher self was in fact a train.

That’s right I am a steam powered locomotive. A great of force of energy and protection with a richly appointed interior.

The method to reach my higher self may not work for everyone, and that is okay. I realized delivering this meditation again after graduating from the Seminary that it could use a little polish. I’m going to be working this month on polishing the meditation and recording it for my Patrons!

Some of my friends did not get to attend so after some gentle nagging by a student I decided to record the meditation as it is, and share it. So here it is for you all. Again, these are the words as written by a fledgling priestess, but still powerful I believe.

Train car pictured is from the British Royal Train built during Queen Victoria’s reign.

Wheel of the Year for Skyfae: January

So on the first of the year I pulled 12 cards to help outline areas that may need my special attention in the year ahead, one for each month of the year. Each month I will draw three more cards to focus on the Mind, Body & Spirit of that particular month.

Here are my cards for this month.   If you are interested in a monthly reading subscription feel free to message me.  As my special 2019 gratitude to you is every comment will receive a free one card reading till January 6th at 6pm (Pacific).

Much love and prosperity for the new year!

 

Awaken your Passion

There once was a girl, who ran with the wolves in the forests and mountains. She ran freely, and with love, passion, joy and ecstasy. She learned the ways of her Ancestors, and heard the Grandmother Wind through the leaves of the trees speak of history while Grandfather Moon hung low in the night sky so show what was to come.

Find your joy so it may never be forgotten. All those who love you, will carry it with them, and speak of your light to their children, and their children’s children. Awaken your Passion.

 

Inclusion, Diversity, Decolonization

I’ve felt sometimes perhaps the world has become over cautious in trying to ‘make nice’ with those who have been marginalized, vilified and persecuted.

I have looked at it with the view point that every single race of people in the history of the world has preyed on their conquests, the odd animals in the pack are killed off. This behavior as an overall view doesn’t seem out of character for this world – and I have found myself feeling odd that it’s such a problem. Bare with me, I’m getting there.

Then again I am a white, cis female who isn’t obviously ‘other’ when you first look at me.

Then I started to think about how when dealing with trauma victims people have a period of time where they are managed; people around them are extra cautious about triggering the trauma. As time goes on we begin to treat these people more and more normally without necessarily being hyper aware of their past trauma, though we still acknowledge the struggle it could be.

In the recent history of the world as we know it in the United States our African American rights have changed drastically. Japanese Americans were imprisoned in WWII, women continued to fight for a place in careers, LBGQ+ just recently granted the same rights and responsibilities of straight married partners, Indigenous Americans were rather recently in the grand scheme of things, recognized as citizens for the purpose of national votes.

Their trauma is newer. Their crisis is still being felt.

Sadly, in some cases their crisis is still being experienced… and now we have government sanctioned terror like ICE.

I’m sure I’m not the first person to think of this, and I won’t be the last. It strikes me that if a person is healed by time and space to recover from a trauma, perhaps we should let our cultures who have been traumatized the time and space to recover as well.