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  • The Queen of Cups & The Knight of Cups: Learning to Follow Your Heart

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Tarot Thursday post, I will be discussing the Knight of Cups and the Queen of Cups.   In particular, I will be discussing how their energies, especially when combined, are an invitation to follow your heart’s desire and listen to your intuition!…

  • The Queen of Wands and the Knight of Wands Through the Lens of Alchemy

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Tarot Tuesday blog post, I will be exploring the Queen of Wands and the Knight of Wands, as her lover and her helpmate, and how their archetypes can be utilized in Spiritual Alchemy!    As my regular readers may know, I have been…

  • Iseult: Faery Queen of Cornwall & Healer Princess of Ireland

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I will be discussing Iseult and her nature as a Faery Queen and Healer!   I have long been utterly fascinated, and honestly totally obsessed, with the legend of Tristan and Iseult.   My obsession began in…

  • ‘Mabon and the Celtic Guardians of Britain’ Book Review

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is a review of Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain: Hero Myths in the Mabinogion by Caitlin Matthews!   I have had this book on my to-read list for a while now, and I am happy to have finally read this…

  • Sir Gawain & Dame Ragnelle: The Knight & the Loathly Lady

    Welcome to day three of Legendary Love Week at White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the Knight Gawain and his wife, Ragnelle!   Ragnelle falls into the Loathly Lady category as she enters the story by appearing as an old woman.   The Loathly Lady is often literally described as…

  • A Faery Queen’s Testing of a Knight in ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’

    Welcome to day five of the Green Knight Week here at White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings!    Today’s post is about the relationship between Gawain and Morgan le Fay in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the archetypal testing of the Knight.   Now, this is a prime example, if not the prime example,…

  • Iseult, Faery Queen & Lover of the Knight Tristan

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday is about Iseult, often known as Isolde, the Faery Queen who married King Marc of Cornwall and had a famed love affair with the Knight Tristan.    In many ways, we can see her as a great counterpart of Guinevere,…

  • The Rivalry Between Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain in the Arthurian Legends

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.    Today’s blog post is about the famed Arthurian rivalry between Lancelot and Gawain.    Although both are important Knights of the Round Table, they are often shown to be at odds with each other.    That is why I want to go over some of…

  • Guinevere & Lancelot, Arthurian Lovers

    For today’s post, I have decided to write about the love story of Lancelot and Guinevere, as I have been thinking about their romance greatly of late.   I think I have been thinking about the love between these two Arthurian figures due to the fact that Guinevere is so associated with Beltane.   It…

  • My Top 5 Favorite Knights of the Round Table

    Today I want to countdown my favorite Knights of the Round Table.    Narrowing it down to five was quite difficult, but I was able to come up with five distinct favorites! Number 5: Percival ~The story of Percival is one of a young knight coming from humble origins to become one of the famed…