White Rose of Avalon

Femme Fatale Friday

  • The Melusine Mysteries is Open for Enrollment!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I am absolutely delighted to announce that my first-ever online class, The Melusine Mysteries, is finally open for enrollment!    I have spent most of Autumn 2024 and all of Winter working on developing this class, and I am…

  • Melusine as Divine Teacher

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about how Melusine is the Divine Teacher, the Faery Queen Goddess who can Priestess us through her Watery Nurturance.    In many ways, this post is also about why I have created an entire Online Class, launching very…

  • Le Petit Trianon, the Faery Lifestyle, & the Coming of Spring

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post is a look at the Court of Marie Antoinette and how Le Petit Trianon can give us both style inspiration and lifestyle inspiration as we go into Spring.   The energy of Le Petit Trianon is both very…

  • Balancing the Energies of Venus and the Moon

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    This week’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post is about the power of balancing Venus and the Moon to create a potent Divine Feminine alignment!   After all, in astrology, the Moon and Venus are the two exaltations of the Feminine.    When we work with…

  • Veronica Franco: Dangerous Beauty, Courtesan, and Poet

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about the iconic poet and Courtesan Veronica Franco!   She was the subject of the 1998 film Dangerous Beauty, which was based on the biography The Honest Courtesan by Margaret F. Rosenthal.    Veronica Franco was born in…

  • Brigid of Avalon: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is a poem about Brigid and her connections to Avalon, in honor of Imbolc being tomorrow! Brigid of Avalon by Maranda Wabik The Candles are lit With warm golden light overtaking The Sight in the White Spring The scene…

  • Folk Horror and the Feminine Experience

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post is about how Folk Horror depicts the Feminine Experience!   I will explore this topic by briefly looking at five different films that show aspects of the Feminine Experience in Folk Horror.   I have broken this into…

  • Embracing Venusian Energy

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have decided to focus on one of my favorite topics, embracing Venusian energy!   As the planet Venus is directly related to Divine Feminine Energy, with the Celtic Venus being deeply represented within many a Faery Queen Goddess,…

  • Margaery Tyrell, Rose Queen of Westeros

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about one of my favorite Game of Thrones characters, Margaery Tyrell!   I knew she would be a favorite before even reading the books or watching the series because I knew she was played by the incredible Natalie…

  • The Heroine of ‘Nosferatu’: Centering the Lucy Character?

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For his first Femme Fatale Friday of the New Year, I just had to write about the leading lady of all the Nosferatu films.   While I kept my post on Saturday about the three films spoiler-free for the new one, this post will not…