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  • 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…

  • Freya and Fólkvangr, a December Friday the 13th Special!

    Happy Friday the 13th, and welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings!   As it is Friday the 13th of December, I have decided that this week’s Femme Fatale Friday will be about Freya and Fólkvangr, exploring her aspect as a Death Goddess.   I thought that this would be the ideal aspect…

  • Evolution of the Elves: Folklore, Tolkien, and Santa

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is about the folkloric evolution of how Elves are perceived!   This will be far from a comprehensive deep-dive, as this is a vast topic.   Instead, I want to focus on different elements of Elvish Faerylore, including older Norse and Celtic folklore,…

  • The Yule Cat, Wicked Feline Fiend of Gryla & the Yule Lads

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is about the Yule Cat from Icelandic folklore, he is known as the pet of the Yule Witch Gryla!   Now, I did a whole post on Gryla last year when I discussed her inclusion in the Yuletide special of Chilling Adventures…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • A Look at Emily Carding’s Faery Astrology

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s post is going to be looking at Emily Carding’s Faery Astrology, as discussed in her book Faery Craft.   Emily Carding used her knowledge of Astrology and Faerylore to create a full twelve zodiac signs that align with the traditional Western Zodiac.   I…

  • Sirens, Handmaidens of Persephone

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon my Darlings.   Today’s blog post is about Sirens and how they are connected to the Greek Goddess Persephone!   It is well known to anyone familiar with the myth of Hades and Persephone that Persephone was in a field picking flowers with her Nymph Handmaidens when she…