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  • The Power of Goddess Archetypes and Faery Queens

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the power of using Goddess Archetypes in your life!   I will be looking at Jean Shinoda Bolen’s Goddesses in Everywoman archetypes by aligning them with Celtic Goddesses to deepen our work with Celtic Venusian and Faery Queen Energies.    Without…

  • ‘Meeting the Melissae’ Book Review

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is a review of Meeting the Melissae: The Ancient Greek Bee Priestesses of Demeter by Elizabeth Ashley.    As someone who has long been fascinated with the Melissae, this book was a great find, and it skyrocketed to the top of my…

  • Aphrodite April & Embracing Your Inner Venusian Energy

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is about how we can celebrate Aphrodite April by embracing our own inner Venusian Energy!   I thought that this was the ideal topic for the final Friday of April.    Now, this past month has been full of a…

  • Kitchener Style Essences and ‘Goddesses in Everywoman’ Archetypes

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    Today’s blog post is an exploration of how we can relate the Kitchener Style Essences to the Goddesses in Everywoman Personality Archetypes as discussed by Jean Shinoda Bolen!   I will begin this exploration with the most Yang of the Kitchener Essences and work my…

  • Welcome April with Faery Studies & Lover Goddess Devotionals

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Happy April, and for this first post of this month, I will be exploring Faery studies and Lover Devotionals for this month!    April is very often associated with honoring Aphrodite by many modern magickal and spiritual practitioners, and the Love Goddess’s energy is very…

  • Tapping into the Energy of the Flower Bride in Winter

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is about tapping into the energy of the May Queen and Flower Bride during the Winter season!   This may seem like an odd topic, or an odd idea, to embrace an energy of the Flower Bride, the May Queen, outside of…

  • Embracing the Innocence of the Maiden

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about embracing the true Innocence of the Maiden energy.   To be clear, this is not Innocence in being sexually pure or Innocence in the naive sense, but rather a Purity of the Heart, a Purity of Intent!   The Maiden asks…

  • 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 Persephone Archetype: Balancing the Energies of the Princess and the Queen

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the Persephone archetype and how this energy can help us learn to balance the Princess with the Queen.   I have written before about my deep connection to the Persephone archetype, as out of the seven Goddess archetypes of Goddesses in…

  • Serpent Queens: Melusine & Medusa

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post is about Melusine and Medusa and how they have common themes in their tales!    Just like the power of the Kundalini Serpent in our Chakra system, both Melusine and Medusa embody the aspect of being a Serpent…