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  • Announcing The Green Knight Week on White Rose of Avalon!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is a special announcement of a new theme week.   I am very pleased to announce that I have decided to do an entire week devoted to the Green Knight, beginning tomorrow!    As Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of…

  • Cozy Winter Reading Based on Your Mood!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is a list of book recommendations based on your mood to get you feeling warm and cozy this Winter!   For the purposes of this post, I have come up with five distinct moods and a recommendation for each.   I thought this…

  • Embodiments of the Woodland: Forests Brought to Life

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is an exploration of various Faery Beings that are the embodiment of the Forest brought to life.   Specifically, I will be examining the Green Man, the Green Knight, Dryads from Greek myth, and Ents from Middle-Earth in this post.   It is…

  • The Wizard Archetype: Tarot & Literature

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s Tarot Tuesday blog post is about the Wizard Archetype, which is also more broadly the Magician Archetype, balanced with some bits of the Hermit Archetype.  I will be exploring the Wizard Archetype via the stories of Merlin, Gandalf, and Dumbledore!   I thought exploring…

  • Water in Celtic Folklore & Spirituality

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s Mermaid Monday post is about the importance of Water in Celtic lore, legends, and magick.   Now, this is a very large topic, which I have covered in several previous posts, with this post being a short overview of this topic to give some…

  • 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…

  • The Five Seeds of Wisdom in the Sisterhood of Avalon Tradition

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the Five Seeds of Wisdom developed by Jhenah Telyndru for the Sisterhood of Avalon.   The Five Seeds of Wisdom refer to the seeds within an Apple, which create a pentagram when cut in half!   This is a beautiful system…

  • Fay Priestess & Enchantress: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings!   Today’s post is a poem about living the Faery lifestyle and following the calling of Faery Queens. Fay Priestess & Enchantress by Maranda Wabik Air grows colder, As I am feeling bolder Life has been so rough, But I know that I am tough Determination…

  • ‘Red Tree, White Tree’ Book Review

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is a book review of the book Red Tree, White Tree: Faeries and Humans in Partnership by Wendy Berg.   This is a book that had been on my to-read list for a while, and I was delighted to purchase it as the…

  • The Magician & Morgan le Fay

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s Tarot Tuesday post is about how Morgan le Fay can represent the energy of the Magician in Tarot.   This post was inspired by the fact that Morgan le Fay is on the Magician card in Le Tarot arthurien by Claire Duval.   The…