Around the Cauldron · Pagans Down Under · The Forest Path · The Goddess Path

Learning to live again

I feel like living in the city left me in a bubble of sorts. You get to read about what happens agriculturally, we get to think “Well, is it really Lughnasadh when x, y and z happens at these times” and you kinda go with tradition or what you’ve been told when you can’t see… Continue reading Learning to live again

Around the Cauldron · The Forest Path

How I found my Pagan Path

A question posted within my spiritual community recently asked how we came to our pagan pathway, and whether it changed our lives. Personally, the date I remember of saying, “enough is enough” with Catholicism was March 28, 1999. I was 14. I was listening to Silverchair’s “Neon Ballroom” album, sitting at my desk in my… Continue reading How I found my Pagan Path

Around the Cauldron · Card Readings · For the Gods

The Oracle of the Antlered Road

Elen of the Ways is an antlered Goddess of British mythology. She is Sovereignty, she is the Green Woman. She is of the ancient tracks and path ways, and is helping me journey down one particular path Herne has claimed as “Women’s Business”. There is not much written about her from the old texts, as she… Continue reading The Oracle of the Antlered Road

Around the Cauldron · Pagans Down Under · The Goddess Path · The Pagan Experience 2015

The Destructive Self (Happy Gregorian New Year)

I sit here typing as a way of forcibly telling myself that I will not submit to cravings, to my anxiety, to my old habits. I sit here forcibly trying to make myself accept change, as change is good and for the better. With the New Years Eve fireworks setting off tonight, we’re all bound… Continue reading The Destructive Self (Happy Gregorian New Year)