White Rose of Avalon

Femme Fatale Friday

  • Golden & Silver Apples, Divine Feminine Fruit

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is going to be focused on Apple-tending Maidens of Lore and Legend!   I want to begin with Greek mythology, being that is the most well-known mythology the world over, so the first Divine Feminine Maidens I will be…

  • Embracing a Personal Connection to the Ninefold

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about finding your own personal Ninefold, through Goddesses of the Celtic lands that you are drawn to honor in your practice.    I find that given this post is so deeply rooted in the Divine Feminine, it is…

  • Medusa, Embracing the Dark Feminine

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is another post about Medusa, Gorgon, Goddess, and Dark Feminine Icon!   In particular, with this post, I want to focus on Medusa as a figure to embrace when working with the Dark Goddess and Dark Feminine energy in general.…

  • The Mermaid Archetype

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is about the power of the Mermaid archetype and how I embrace it as an important part of my spiritual path and magickal life!    This is a bit of a companion piece to Wednesday’s post about the Queen of…

  • Nimue, Lady of the Lake & Lover of Merlin

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is about Nimue, the great Lady of the Lake, and famed Lover of Merlin, who doomed him!   I have written so many times about the importance of the Lady of the Lake in Arthurian legends.   I have discussed…

  • Athenais de Montespan ‘The Real Queen of France’ & Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV

    Welcome to Royal Romance Week Day Two here at White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This post is also this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, so keeping with the Femme Fatale Friday theme as well as the Royal Romance theme, I have chosen to write about Athenais de Montespan, who was nicknamed ‘The Real Queen…

  • Brigid, Great Goddess & Imbolc

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday will be my last Imbolc-themed post this year.   I will be focusing on the Great Goddess Brigid, who is the deity most deeply associated with Imbolc, which is also the National Holiday St. Brigid’s Day in Ireland, as of…

  • Female Druids, The Bandorai

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is going to focus on the Female Druids.   Druid Priestesses are called Bandorai, or some other form of the word which I will explain a bit below.   They are considered to be the Priestesses of the Celts which…

  • Arianrhod & Divine Motherhood

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is going to focus on Arianrhod in her aspect as a Divine Mother.   Now, Arianrhod is far from the common image of a Mother Goddess, who is only nurturing and loving embracing her children and holding them close.  …

  • The Black Dahlia, Hollywood’s Most Infamous Unsolved Murder

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I will be focusing on one of the most infamous unsolved true crime cases in Hollywood history.   In honor of the anniversary of the tragic date when Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered, which happened on January 15,…