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  • Love Goddess & Sea Goddess: Exploring the Connection

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be exploring the connection between Love Goddesses and Sea Goddesses! The most obvious example of a Love Goddess who is also a Sea Goddess is Aphrodite.   After all, her most famous birth story is the one where she…

  • Coventina, Celtic Goddess of the Sacred Spring

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I am discussing Coventina!   I have long been fascinated by this Goddess worshipped by the Celts, and I am excited to write about her today. Coventina’s Sacred Site was a Shrine at Carrawburgh River on Hadrian’s Wall.…

  • A May Bride: A Reflection on Embracing May Queen Energy on My 5th Wedding Anniversary

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I have decided to share a reflection about embracing May Queen energy on my Wedding Day, as it is my 5th Anniversary with my husband, Andrew! On Saturday, May 15, 2021, I finally married the love of my…

  • The Sun and the Water: An Exploration of Celtic Solar Water Goddesses

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I have decided to discuss the overlap between Solar Goddesses and Water Goddesses! It is a very interesting aspect of Celtic myth that there are many Goddesses who are associated with the Sun.   While there is the common dichotomy of…

  • Meeting Sulis, Goddess of Thermal Springs

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am going to be focusing on discussing Sulis, the Goddess of the Thermal Springs in Bath!    Now, you may have noticed that I titled this post, Meeting Sulis.   There is a very good reason for that, as I…

  • Deepening My Connection with Honeybees

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s post, I will be discussing deepening a connection to Honeybees! As Spring is at its peak, I think this is the ideal time to talk about Honeybees.   With the weather growing warmer and the flowers in full bloom, our pollinators are more…

  • The Birth of Venus: Exploring Her Birth Story for Aprhodite April

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this Aphrodite April Femme Fatale Friday, I am devoting a whole post to discussing the Birth of Venus!    So, Aphrodite in Greece and Venus in Rome have much of their mythos intertwined, as we well know.   There are two different stories about…

  • I Got an Essay on Melusine Published!

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I have an exciting announcement.   I have had an essay on Melusine as a Mother Goddess published in Voices from the Grove Volume 7! I could not be more thrilled to be published for a second time in a row…

  • A Very Magickal Mermaid March: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am sharing a poem about having a very magickal and Mermaidy March! A Very Magickal Mermaid March by Maranda Wabik Waves of joy, washing over me The energy of the Mermaids is clear to see The Mermaids help to set…

  • Mermaids and the Shapeshifting Energy of Water

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post is about the Shapeshifting energy of Mermaids!     In Mermaid folklore, it is quite common to find stories of Mermaids who can change shape, not always needing to be in their Mermaid form.   Irish Merrows and Cornish…