My Granny McCabe told me that whatever I needed in life could be found right here in these hills. “You only have to be needy enough and strong enough to take it,” she had said. When we made a pact to hand out some hard justice to them that deserved it, I told the girls […]
From the time I was a little girl I could work magic. The “knowing” came down to me from my mother’s people all the way back through our Scotts ancestors. I already knew the herbs and roots needed for simple remedies and spells, but my Aunt Minna showed me the powerful ones, like witch hazel, […]
The first time I met Dan Fields I read his palm and knew he was not from our world. I sensed that his energy came from an older simpler time. He was a man in transition, struggling to find his way. He was a traveler. When he showed me his granny’s cross set with a […]
The pagan Goddess Ariadne comes from Crete and represents the spiral of life and the turning of the wheel. Often pictured holding a ball of twine, she is a weaver of both time and destiny. Her believers say she spun the universe from primordial darkness. She is often associated with the labyrinth and spiral dancing. […]
Allie had always believed in magic. Her grandparents who raised her knew which plants were poisonous and which contained healing qualities. They relied on the phases of the moon to plant the crops coaxed from rocky hill country soil. When the moon was full, strange and magical things happened. She looked out at the snow-covered […]
