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  • The Eight of Cups & Following Your Own Path

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.    For today’s Tarot Tuesday blog post, I will be discussing the Eight of Cups card. The Eight of Cups is the card that signals a time for change, a time to turn around and strike out in a new direction.   Given that it is…

  • The Incarnated Mermaid Diaries: Building Intuition with the Queen of Cups

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Siren Saturday, I have decided to share the eighteenth entry in my Incarnated Mermaid Diaries series.   Today’s topic is Building Intuition with the Queen of Cups! I have long adored the Queen of Cups in Tarot.   She has always been…

  • 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…

  • The Incarnated Mermaid Diaries: The Power of the Three of Cups

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this week’s Siren Saturday, I have decided to share the seventeenth entry in my Incarnated Mermaid Diaries series.   Today’s topic is The Power of the Three of Cups! For Incarnated Mermaids, I think that the Cups suit of Tarot holds a special significance.…

  • The Nine of Cups and Finding Your Bliss

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Tarot Tuesday post, I have decided to discuss the Nine of Cups card!   I have always loved the energy of this card, so let’s get into what the Nine of Cups means to me. I once read a description of the Nine…

  • Mer-May and Sacred Springs: A Poem

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am sharing a poem about the magick of Mer-May and Sacred Springs! Mer-May and Sacred Springs by Maranda Wabik Oh, the Sacred Waters flow Oh, it is wonderful to be in the know I hear the call of the waters…

  • 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.…

  • Examining the Well Maidens and the Summerlands

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I will be discussing Well Maidens and how they relate to the Summerlands, the Otherworld of Arthurian Legends!   To begin, I will have to share the dark story of the pain inflicted upon the Well Maidens. The Well Maidens of…

  • An Examination of Waterhouse’s ‘Hylas and the Nymphs’: What the Painting Means to Me

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Mermaid Monday post, I have decided to do an examination of the amazing John William Waterhouse painting, Hylas and the Nymphs. I have adored this painting since I was a young teenager.   The beautiful Water Nymphs gathered together in the water, casting…

  • 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…