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  • Tapping into the Energy of the Flower Bride in Winter

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is about tapping into the energy of the May Queen and Flower Bride during the Winter season!   This may seem like an odd topic, or an odd idea, to embrace an energy of the Flower Bride, the May Queen, outside of…

  • Tarot and Venusian Energy

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Tarot Tuesday blog post, I have decided to discuss Venusian energy found in the Tarot!   I will look at this by delving into several Tarot cards where the archetype relates to Venusian energy.   I have chosen to focus on the top…

  • 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,…

  • Thoughts on the High Priestess Archetype & Expressing Devotion in the New Year!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is about the High Priestess Archetype and learning to express your devotion and inner Priestess nature going into the New Year!   As a Priestess of Avalon, I do like to explore my own connection to the High Priestess Archetype at different…

  • Thoughts on the Empress Archetype and Enduring Winter

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the Empress in Tarot and Enduring Winter and the hardships that may occur during this trying season.   This is a concept I have been thinking about quite a bit lately, so I wanted to share some thoughts I have been…

  • The Mari Lwyd, Welsh Skeletal Horse and Yuletide Tradition

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is about the Welsh tradition of the Mari Lwyd, a Horse Skull affixed to a pole with a sheet trailing behind her.    This allows the person beneath the Mari Lwyd a great way to control her actions during the Wassailing Traditions…

  • Faery Queens as Shapeshifters

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about Faery Queens as Shapeshifters.   During the Dark Half of the Year, it is the ideal time to work on Shadow Work and on more introspective forms of magick.   Shapeshifting is, in fact, a form of meditative magick that can…

  • My Five Favorite Empress Cards

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is my ranking of my five favorite Empress Tarot cards from different decks I work with for this Tarot Tuesday.    I thought this would be an ideal companion post to yesterday’s post about High Queen energy!   The ranking will feature the…

  • Embracing the High Queen: Deepening into the Archetype for Autumn!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about embracing the Queen Archetype for Autumn.   Across many cultures, Queenly energy is associated with Autumn.   A prime example of this from Greco-Roman myth is that Persephone made her descent back into the Underworld to be with her husband at…

  • Woodland & the Adar Rhiannon: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is a poem about encountering the Adar Rhiannon in the Faery Woodland! Woodland & the Adar Rhiannon by Maranda Wabik Three songbirds in the tree Sweet melody sets my soul free  A White Horse appears On this Woodland Path I know the Goddess…