Heron Brook Haven

12/15/2025

Without a real connection to the land it isn't fully living.

12/14/2025

Coming up on the 20th...you can create a special simple ceremony to honor the Mothers and the Mother of All. I am thinking light one of the special white bees wax candles from the bees while I offer this prayer.

12/11/2025

Without a real connection to the land it isn't fully living.

12/09/2025

One of my favorites. Trust the pause. Trust your becoming.

12/04/2025

“Supernormal events may be, but nothing is supernatural. Magic power only implies a power not limited by common experience.”
- Florence Farr, "The Magic of a Symbol" (1908)

12/01/2025

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11/30/2025

There is a quiet magic in the old ways.
The kind whispered by ancient hearths and carried in the smoke of herbs that have burned a thousand winters.
Modern practices may sparkle beautifully, polished and packaged for the world to see —
but the old paths… they hum with something deeper.
Something remembered.
Something true.
I keep the spirit of the old witch close —
the one who knew the language of the wind,
who read the sky as easily as ink on parchment,
who trusted her hands, her herbs, her instincts,
long before the world tried to shape magic into something marketable.
The old crafts are not perfect, nor gentle, nor convenient.
They are raw.
They are honest.
They are woven from earth and shadow, moonlight and breath.
And within them lives a mystery the modern world cannot sell —
a heartbeat that echoes from the time before time.
So I follow the ancient thread.
Not because it is old,
but because it is alive.
And every step along that path reminds me:
the real magic is not found in the new or the trending,
but in the stories we inherited,
the practices that survived,
and the quiet power that stirs when we honour the wisdom of those who walked before us.”
~Serenity Ravinwolve

11/20/2025

If you search for a shaman or a mystic and find one,
don't expect they will take you towards magical places,
or entertain you with magical tricks.
Their Art is to provoke Your Demons;
those, which you are so well protecting, justifying,
denying and hiding ... .
If you search for a shaman, be prepared they will
undress you with their Words,
make you angry with their Silence.
Stay alert when they frustrate you
with their brutal Honesty.
Be prepared for The Battle...
the worst Battle: with yourself.
"The one who has Magic doesn't need any tricks.”
- TAWA - INKA

Be sure to seek out those who keep it real, not the ones who put on a good show.

11/19/2025

We think it is the big moments that define our lives - the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really these big moments of happiness are just punctuation marks. The narrative is written every day in the small and simple.
~Sarah Ban Breathnach

11/12/2025

10/30/2025

So many of our modern day festivals have become so far removed from the original essence and the roots of what the festival was about.

These points in the calendar, these moments of celebration, were always about connection to our soul, honouring the land and our journey upon it.
And yet, as I look on the modern consumerist versions, it seems to be the opposite.

Buying into practises and things that damage the earth and our bodies.

Increasing disconnection rather than connection.
So if on this beautiful day and night of death and rebirth, new beginnings and letting go.

This festival of honouring our deaths and the path of our ancestors, this festival of fire; you find yourself eating piles of deadening sugar, surrounded by plastic wrapped junk, with no thought of connection to life, to heart to soul.

I invite you to carve out just 20 minutes of your time, to either light a candle, walk in the woods or make a mandala or a shrine under a tree; made from leaves, nut casings, lichen, feathers; whatever feels right to you, that represents all you have been through and all that you are growing towards.

Or make time to sit in candlelight, firelight or moonlight and just listen and feel into what has been and what you wish to move towards.

Honour in some way your life and the life of those who came before you, especially the ones who touched your heart with love and grief and carved a space in your bones for life to fill you with it’s beauty.

On this day especially, honour the wise ones; the witches whose knowledge of plants, nature, birth, death, seasons and beauty have brought so much to this earth.

It is those ancestors who brought forth much wisdom, and yet we still degrade their memory and celebrate the terrible killings of our wise ones through mockery and hate.

Let the young girls and boys know, that a strong wise woman, ‘a witch’ is a wonderful being indeed.

Break down the distorted misunderstandings and break free of celebrating a hideous belief, that witches were devil worshipping baby eaters, but were instead, our earth based wisdom our strong women.

Just take a moment if you can to connect to something more beautiful, more real.

Reclaim your knowing and understanding.
Your heart and soul will thank you for it.

~ Brigit Anna McNeill

Art by Tijana Lukovic, “Samhain”