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  • 9 Gifts of Morgan le Fay Energy

    For today’s post, I have decided to share a companion post to the Guinevere gift post from yesterday!   This is my own collection of gifts of Morgan le Fay Energy.   Now, you will note that there is a great deal of cross-over between Guinevere and Morgana energy gifts.   This is because Guinevere…

  • 7 Gifts of Guinevere Energy

    For today’s post, I have decided to share a post on a list of seven gifts of Guinevere’s energy that was mentioned in the post about Guinevere’s card in the Mists of Avalon Oracle by Rose Inserra.   Now, this is my absolute favorite Oracle Deck of all time!   I have been reading with…

  • Faeries and Seasonal Energy

    For today’s post, I have decided to go over some of my favorite faeries that embody the energies of the seasons of the Wheel of the Year. Banshee: Samhain is the season that I associate with the Banshee.   She is the Faery Wailing Woman and one who detects the deaths of those in certain…

  • Flower Brides, May Queens, High Queens: Archetypes in Analysis

    For today’s post, I have decided to take a look at Arthurian Faery Queens in the realm of being a Flower Bride who became May Queen when married and eventually turned High Queen.   Guinevere, Isolde, and Blodeuwedd are all Faery women who can be seen through the lens of archetypal Flower Brides.   The…

  • Snow White’s Wicked Queen

    Welcome to day two of Winter Faerytale Week here on White Rose of Avalon.   Today also happens to be this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, so I have chosen a classic Winter Faerytale villain as my topic.   The Wicked Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is amongst the vilest of fairytale characters.…

  • Blodeuwedd, Wintery Owl Goddess

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have decided to discuss the Welsh Celtic Goddess Blodeuwedd.   In particular, I will be focusing on her aspect as an Owl Goddess and how this may relate to this dark and Wintery time of year.    Her dual nature of Flower Goddess and Owl Goddess can be…

  • Anne Boleyn, Queen of Reformation

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have decided to discuss my favorite Queen of all time yet again.   After seeing the new docu-series about her on Netflix, which I also reviewed earlier this week here on White Rose of Avalon, I felt that she was the perfect topic for this week’s Femme Fatale…

  • My Thoughts on Blood, Sex & Royalty: Anne Boleyn

    For today’s post, I have decided to share my thoughts on the new Netflix docu-series Blood, Sex & Royalty: Anne Boleyn.   I found this new series as a recommendation from Netflix, which is unsurprising given how much I love the Tudor period.   Of course, given that Anne Boleyn is my favorite Queen of…

  • The 5 Most Interesting Doomed Queens (In My Opinion)

    For today’s post, I have decided to take a look at my five favorite stories of Doomed Queens.   In this countdown, I will rank the Queens based on how much interest I find in their tales.   This is not to say that any one of them is better than the others, or worse,…

  • My Top 5 Royal Historical Fiction Books

    For today’s post, I have decided to do a countdown of my five favorite historical fiction novels.   These are in particular about Queens in the late medieval and Tudor periods.   The reason they are my favorites is that it is my favorite time period. Number 5: The White Rose by Jan Westcott ~This…