when whimsy starts coming to you don’t ignore. moonbathe on full moon nights, spray lavender mist on your pillows before you sleep, decorate your meals with edible flowers, only use candlelight at night as if you’re a medieval princess. you have free will.
The horse in Druidry is associated with Epona, the Great Mare, a Horse Goddess associated with the Gauls. There is still a rich legacy of inscriptions and monuments dedicated to Epona
art: Kinuko Y. Craft
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it”
- Ursula K. Le Guin
A basic principle I Iearned from my ancestors is consistency in word and action. I assumed when everyone spoke that their words had integrity. I had no context for anything else. It was literally my hardest lessons this lifetime to learn that not everyone is who they say they are
"Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends."
- Aberjhani
🖌️ Justine Guittonny Cappelli, 'The Morrigan' (watercolor/gouache/gold leaf)
Watching fireflies on a warm summer evening has inspired countless legends. Some believed they were fairy lanterns drifting through the grass, while others thought they carried the souls of ancestors returning to visit the living under the cover of darkness. #FolkloreSunday
Art: Happy D. Artist
"The old women are most learned, but will not readily talk, for the fairies are very secretive, and much resent being talked of"
W.B. Yeats
The Eblana Photograph Collection (1870-1890)
“I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life”
- Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea
#OwlishMonday
“Myths do not happen all at once. They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words—to the memories—to keep them rolling on their own.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light
In Germany, men celebrating Father’s Day go on hikes and take wagons with them
The wagons are loaded with beer, wine, and food — all of which should be fully depleted before the hike ends
According to Scandinavian folklore, nature was imbued with magic during midsummer.
Natural water springs were seen as especially powerful places, and it was believed that drinking the water from a natural spring during midsummer would bring health and good fortune in the coming year.
According to old folk belief, herbs were thought to be especially potent on Midsummer's Eve, and therefore it was seen as a very good time to gather herbs for healing and protection.
The herbs had to be picked in silence, otherwise the magic would be broken.
🎨 Amanda Clark