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  • ‘Among the Mermaids’ Book Review

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be sharing my review of the book Among the Mermaids: Facts, Myths, and Enchantments from the Sirens of the Sea by Varla Ventura. This is a book that has been on my radar for quite a while, especially given…

  • A Very Biased Ranking of All 6 Seasons of ‘Teen Wolf’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s post, I am sharing my ranking of the seasons of Teen Wolf!   I do want to preface this by saying that I love the entirety of this show and think that it has some of the consistently best storytelling of any Supernatural…

  • The Mermaid’s Comb: Exploring the Magick of the Mermaid’s Iconic Tool

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Mermaid Monday blog post, I will be discussing the magick of the Mermaid’s Comb in Mysticism! While many of us think of a Mermaid’s Comb as a symbol of her nature as a figure of beauty, with the comb being a tool of…

  • The Incarnated Mermaid Diaries: Mermaids as Bestowers of Sovereignty

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Siren Saturday, I have decided to share another entry in my Incarnated Mermaid Diaries series.   Today’s topic is Mermaids as Bestowers of Sovereignty! So, this topic was brought to mind for me when I was thinking of how Melusine is a…

  • The Incarnated Mermaid Diaries: Literary Love and the Incarnated Mermaid

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Siren Saturday, I have decided to share another entry in my Incarnated Mermaid Diaries series.   Today’s topic is Literary Love and the Incarnated Mermaid! Literature is an art form very close to my heart.   I think that this is, at…

  • ‘The Silver Wheel: Women’s Myths & Mysteries in the Celtic Tradition’ Book Review

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am sharing my review of The Silver Wheel: Women’s Myths and Mysteries in the Celtic Tradition by Marguerite Elsbeth and Kenneth Johnson!    Okay, so I will be very honest in this review, as I always am.   Firstly, I…

  • Exploring the Well and the Artist Cards of the ‘Ethereal Visions Tarot’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Tarot Tuesday blog post, I am sharing an exploration of The Well and The Artist cards from the Ethereal Visions Tarot. In the Ethereal Visions Tarot, there are two additional Major Arcana cards, the Well numbered twenty-two and the Artist numbered twenty-three.  …

  • The Two Catherines of ‘Wuthering Heights’ & Expanding the Faery Changeling Theory

    Welcome to day six of Wuthering Heights Week here at White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is also this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, so I have chosen to write about the two Catherines of Wuthering Heights and my Faery Changeling theory.   I decided to do an updated and more fleshed-out post…

  • We Need to Talk About ‘The Northman’

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Magical Media Analysis blog post, I will be discussing Robert Eggers’ film The Northman and unpacking some of the Norse mythology, spirituality, and inspiration from Shakespeare’s Hamlet found within the film!   It was actually the final Robert Eggers film that I had…

  • Learning About the Self Through Stories

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be discussing how we can learn about ourselves through stories and the archetypes found within them!    In the study of folklore, legends, myth, and fairytales, patterns begin to form.   These archetypal themes and characters appear time and…