White Rose of Avalon

Celtic

  • What’s in a Name? The Power of Latin Plant Names!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   For today’s post, I have decided to look at some of the Latin names for herbs and how they hold clues as to some of the magickal and medicinal properties of the herb!    I have decided to include nine herbs for this post, as…

  • Sovereign Through Strife: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   Today’s post is a poem about finding Sovereignty through times of pain. Sovereign Through Strife by Maranda Wabik Life can be Rife with Strife Yet there is always  Threads of massive shifts of consciousness  Which allow us to claim our personal SOVEREIGNTY Pain is what…

  • Avalonian Daydream: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   Today’s post is a poem about facing the Shadows through immersion in the Avaloninan Path. Avalonian Daydream by Maranda Wabik I feel as if I’m walking in a DAYDREAM Dancing images of Avalon Racing through my Brain Now is the time in which I feel…

  • Avalonian Energy Centers & The Traditional Chakras

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   For today’s post, I have decided to take a look at the difference between the traditional chakras and the five Avalonian Energy Centers as utilized in the Sisterhood of Avalon tradition.    The traditional chakras are numbered seven, whereas the Avalonian Centers are only five…

  • Guinevere, White Phantom of Avalon

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have decided to focus on Guinevere and her associations with Avalon.   Guinevere’s name can be translated to mean White Fay, White Ghost, or White Phantom, particularly in its original Welsh form. That translation of her name brings…

  • The Power of Dreams

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   For today’s post, I have decided to discuss the power of Dreams and Dream Magickal practices.   Our daily rest at night is a powerful time to heal our bodies and to restore and renew for the next day ahead of us.    This is…

  • The Faery Enchantress Archetype

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   Today’s post is going to focus on what I call the Faery Enchantress Archetype.    This is very much in line with the Alchemical Goddess, Aphrodite Archetype in Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Every Woman book, but it is also more than that!    In…

  • The Balance of Shadow & Light

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!    Today’s post is about the need for balance in magick, as well as in life.   Life is not just a place of love and light, no matter what some may desire to believe it to be, for it is also a place of shadows.…

  • Crow & Owl: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   Today’s post is a poem about crows and owls as birds of the Goddess. Crow & Owl by Maranda Wabik Caw of the Crow Screech of the Owl Birds of the Goddesses Divine Messengers of Annwn Sent from the Blessed Isle of Avalon Avian Goddess…

  • Lesser Discussed Arthurian Ladies

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings!   For today’s post, I have decided to take a look at some of the lesser-discussed Arthurian ladies.    As much as I can ceaselessly write and talk about Morgana and Guinevere, it is nice to give a spotlight to ones that are not as well…