Winter Magick Day30

 

Winter Prayer Song

Winter Mother, We offer you this song.

For we are earth and 

to the Earth we belong.

Winter Mother, help us grow 

as you need us to.

Winter Mother, Show us the way 

through the dark,

show us what we are here to do.

We are growing, We are changing, 

As does each dark night,

We are growing, We are changing, 

in our darkest place.

Blessed Be!

(unknown source) 

Blessings dark and deep!

Winter Magick Day 20

 I Call You, Winter Goddesses

I call You, all Winter Goddesses, 

of ice and snow and cold winds,

of long, dark nights, and short days.

I call all of You to bear witness to my Art.

Persephone of the World Below, I invoke you.

I call You to bear witness to my Art,

Great Hekate, who rules all realms,

I call You to bear witness to my Art,

Come to bear witness 

to the praise of Your merry band,

It is the Sabbath!

Now is the time of the longest night, 

the Winter Solstice!

I call You to rise here, 

Goddesses whom we honor,

I call to you as a witch,

I call to you as a sorceress calls,

Bound by oath and blood and mark to You.

Come hither, I call Your names!

- EA Kaufman 2013

Blessings dark and deep!

Winter Magick Day 18

 Mother Berchta’s Coming To Town

You better watch out when winter comes night 
You better not doubt, I’m telling you why.
Mother Berchta’s coming to town! 
She carries a sack made out of a skin
She dumps the toys out and stuffs the kids in,
Mother Berchta’s coming to town! 
She rides on Ashurskeggi
A goat whose back is strong. 
Her beard is long and scraggly
And her tail is ten feet long! 
With six or eight horns, a moustache or two, 
Make no mistake, she’s coming for you!
Mother Berchta’s coming to town! 
She knows with whom you’re sleeping, 
She knows with whom you wake,
She knows each thought you’re thinking 
So don’t think, for Goddess sake!
So when the winds howl way up in the sky 
Listen as she and Skeggi pass by.
Mother Berchta’s coming, 
Mother Berchta’s coming,
Yes, Mother Berchta’s coming to town!

Sung to the tune of Santa Clause is Coming to Town
Lyrics rewritten by The Greenwood Singers, a Seattle based Pagan Chorus.

Blessings dark and deep!

December Magick Day 17

 

The Wild Horde 

The Frauen are the leaders of the Wild Horde, the band of wandering souls, especially children’s souls, who fly through the winter night skies (perhaps disguised as swans, or wild geese, or the wind). 
This is even true for St Lucy. In Norway, she is considered a loose woman, even a goblin, and is said to lead the Wild Hunt. 
The Wild Horde itself was a complex phenomenon whose origins lose themselves partly in the prehistoric past. There was the assembly of ghosts under the leadership of a female divinity—Hecate or Artemis in ancient Greece; in the Latin West, Diana or Herodias, the mother of Salome. This gathering of female spirits, which later swelled into the crowd of evil hags at the witches’ sabbath, was well known to theologians of the first millennium who in vain flung their anathema against it: As usual the effort was in vain.

- Celebrating Winter Solstice, Customs and Crafts, Recipes and Rituals for 
 Festivals of Light, Hanukkah, Yule, and Other Midwinter Holidays; Compiled by Waverly Fitzgerald

Blessings dark and deep!