White Rose of Avalon

Celtic

  • Excalibur & the Scabbard of Invulnerability

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is going to be all about the sword Excalibur and the Scabbard of Invulnerability!   As we all know, one of the most iconic items in all of the Arthurian legends is the sword Excalibur.    Excalibur is the famed sword of King…

  • Sacred Vessels

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the importance of Sacred Vessels of all sorts in a spiritual practice.   In this concise post, I will go over a list of five different Sacred Vessels you may wish to utilize in your magickal spiritual practices.   Without further…

  • A Faery King’s Tie to the Land

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is a bit of an expansion of the idea of having a King who is literally tied to the Land, which I analyzed in my review of The Folk of the Air Trilogy.   I wanted to go deeper and analyze how this…

  • Why I Love Earthing

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    For today’s post, I want to focus on the process and ritual of Earthing!   For those who do not know what Earthing is, I want to begin with a definition of the word from earthing.com. EARTHING “Earthing is to sync the body to the…

  • 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…

  • Some Favorite Imbolc Celebrations

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Blessed Imbolc and Happy St. Brigid’s Day to all!    For today’s holiday post, I have decided that I am going to share some of my favorite rituals and celebrations for Imbolc.     MIRROR SCRYING ~I strongly adore using Mirror Scrying in Black Obsidian…

  • Sacred Sexuality, Embracing the Nymph Within

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is about Sacred Sexuality and the Nymph archetype.   Now, I have two dual reasons for choosing this topic for today’s post.   Firstly, my post on Nymphs and Sexuality which is from my very first year running this blog is still one…

  • Magickal Imbolc: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is a poem about the magick of Imbolc.   Imbolc is usually officially celebrated on February 1, which is this coming Thursday.  In fact, Ireland made Imbolc an official holiday just last year, as St. Brigid’s Day, which is their first legal holiday…

  • A Very Biased Ranking of All 5 Seasons of Merlin!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is going to be another ranking of seasons of one of my favorite fantasy television shows.   I will be doing a very biased ranking of all five seasons of Merlin.   Ironically this is not a series I watched when it originally…

  • 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…