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Samhain blessings

Published by Mary on October 31, 2020
An altar with a black cloth, two candles, a resin skull, and some glittery faux bones

It’s out today, my lovely book, the third of the Tales of the End Times series: The Way to Witch Farm.

To order it, you can go to Amazon here (and you can get it free with Kindle Unlimited): https://amzn.to/3mIDBWT

To get the series, you can go here: https://amzn.to/3jL2gIm

Today is Samhain, the Witches New Year, and a full moon besides that. My coven and I will scry tonight, looking forward to a future that may yet be bright. In honor of the holiday, here’s a Samhain excerpt from the book.

“Now we will make offerings to Hekate, Dea, and the ancestors, asking for their help.”

The line started forward. Along the altar, the attendees moved from one incense burner to the next. Hekate received a blend containing mint and aconite, Dea patchouli with rose, the spirits mugwort and sandalwood.

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Nearly apple harvest

Published by Mary on August 18, 2020
Apples on a tree

I haven’t had a lot to say—what’s to say about the political world, in essays and social media, is being said by other folks.

I’m on the third draft of the next book, which will feature some impassioned Antifa folks and some protests, as well as Hekate and everyone else. In the meantime, this day of the new moon, I watch my apples ripen.

And it’s off!

Published by Mary on May 9, 2019
Candle burning on altar

This is a candle burning for Hekate, my muse and goddess, as I send my second draft to my publisher for review!

Hekate deipnon

Published by Mary on December 7, 2018

Hekate candle on my altar

Hekate deipnon, last night— I gave her some Fires of Hekate incense. Hekate has a place on my main altar with her key, sitting in front of Cernunnos, who you can see in the background.

The new moon is in Sagittarius. The astrologers I’ve read say it’s a sparkly one, as new moons go, full of hope.

Keep going, Hekate says. I keep going.

Soteira

Published by Mary on November 13, 2018

Statue of Hekate

Hekate Soteira means Hekate savior. The Neoplatonists saw her as the mediator between the realm of the undying gods and that of mortals. Celestial in this aspect, she forms a boundary between the worlds.

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Rededication

Published by Mary on November 1, 2018

Small Hekate altarIt’s a blustery first of November. All morning, the cats have watched out the window as leaves fly by, wondering if the leaves are birds.

Hekate has been calling me back for reconnection. The mother of witches, she’s been with me since I was a young teen.

I didn’t know it then. I drew and painted then as often as I wrote, and one of my first big projects for my seventh-grade art class was a woodblock print. I made a traditional witch’s workroom—skulls, books, candles, cauldron. Out the window was a waning moon. In those days, any time I drew a moon freehand without thinking, it was waning.

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Hekate

Published by Mary on October 25, 2018

I have been dedicated to Hekate for more than fifteen years, and she is the guiding deity of my book series, Tales of the End Times. This is my Hekate altar, in the corner of my writing room. You can see at the right a set of Hekate cards that a witch friend of mine and I made for an event we put on, each card holding an epithet of the goddess. Hekate has dozens.

I just wrote a scene about the goddess for the second book of the series, in which a witch draws down as Hekate and prophesies for her coven. This vision came to my character Alyssa, and she describes it to Joanie and her friend Guy:

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