White Rose of Avalon

Maranda Wabik

  • Life Advice from Caroline Forbes: A ‘The Vampire Diaries’ Special on White Rose of Avalon

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I wanted to share with you a post full of life advice we can learn from one of my all-time favorite fictional characters, Caroline Forbes!   A few years ago, I did a similar post for Katherine Pierce,…

  • Embracing the Creatrix Archetype with the Empress Tarot Card

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Tarot Thursday blog post, I will be exploring the Lover and Creatrix Archetypal energy to examine working with the Empress in Tarot! As we draw nearer to the Summer Solstice, the energy of the Empress grows more profound.   Of course, her energy…

  • Love Goddess & Sea Goddess: Exploring the Connection

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be exploring the connection between Love Goddesses and Sea Goddesses! The most obvious example of a Love Goddess who is also a Sea Goddess is Aphrodite.   After all, her most famous birth story is the one where she…

  • Medievalism & Sacred Adornment

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be discussing my love of Medievalism and how it impacts my own acts of Sacred Adornment! So, firstly, I should explain a bit about what Sacred Adornment is.   Sacred Adornment is the act of a Priestess dressing herself…

  • Marilyn Monroe: A 100th Birthday Reflection About Her

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am writing a reflection on what Marilyn Monroe has always meant to me, on what would have been her 100th birthday! I honestly cannot remember a time when Marilyn Monroe was not a name, a face, a voice that I…

  • Goodbye May, the End of the Lusty Month: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am sharing a poem about the end of the month of May! Goodbye May, the End of the Lusty Month by Maranda Wabik The final day of May is here Oh, how sad to see you go this year However,…

  • The Incarnated Mermaid Diaries: The Power of the Three of Cups

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Siren Saturday, I have decided to share the seventeenth entry in my Incarnated Mermaid Diaries series.   Today’s topic is The Power of the Three of Cups! For Incarnated Mermaids, I think that the Cups suit of Tarot holds a special significance.…

  • The May Queen as an Aspect of the Celtic Venus

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I will be discussing the connections between May Queens and the Celtic Venus! To begin with, May Queens are automatically Celtic Venusian figures in my realm of thought.   To be a May Queen, you have to have…

  • My Top 5 Favorite French Novels

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I have decided to share a list of some of my favorite French-language novels.   To be clear, I have not had the pleasure of reading all of these in their original language, but I have read one in its original…

  • The Queen Archetype as a Leader of Sisterhood

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be discussing how you can use the Queen Archetype to build Sisterhood.   I think that this is especially potent when combined with the Maiden and the Creatrix!    This is also related to the idea of a Morgen,…