cohanMay 22, 2024
1-I finally finished my Mother's Day (Mothers Day) /Great Mother Spring Altar blogpost (plus a rather long footnote about the Baltic Goddess Ragana (reduced to a hag/'witch' reclaimed by modern witches but really so much more!)- on blogger and wordrpress
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/05/weve-just-passed-mothers-day-mothers.html
https://cohanmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/mothers-day-great-mother-spring-altar-i-go-off-a-bit-about-ragana/
YouTube video is in the blog, Spectra linked, I'll link it and the Spectra in replies to this as well. #pagan #animist #DivineFeminine #reverence #spring #nature #rebirth
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Mothers Day /Great Mother Spring Altar + I go off a bit about Ragana!

We've just passed Mothers Day (Mother's Day) and the anniversary of Mom's birthday. When she was alive and I was home, starting in my youth,...

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the video links- also in the blog:
https://spectra.video/w/t96sFFbGhHyCmZQ4S7ibRx
https://youtu.be/5X06DML9xGI
Mothers Day: Altar for Spring Great Goddess + Mom's Birthday; First Flowers and Leaves

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from the blog- re: Baltic goddess Ragana:
"Of course ... authority based on intimidation and ignorance drove the old ways to the wilds, outside civilised village and city life. Of course they labelled these women as dangerous or deranged- for the simple truths they lived were indeed dangerous to the repressive patriarchy..."
Birch catkins- Birch is a tree associated with Ragana and many other European goddesses, suggesting the antiquity of the association. #witch #OldWays
May 22, 2024 at 10:05pmWeb
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Here's a still view of the finished altar, plus another angle where it seems the Goddess manifested among the flowers and greenery (I say this kind of thing a bit jokingly, but also believe the [non-specific] divine energy is there for us to see and feel)
#goddess #ragana #BirdGoddess #Life #PrimalEnergy #SheLives
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5- Views from my walk on the farm to collect wild materials for the altar
#Alberta #May #spring #BeautifulDay #BorealForest #wetlands #rebirth
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6- finally, a vignette from the altar- Anemone nemorosa and a blur of Primula elatior from the #garden , plus a bit of blue/violet native Viola adunca which is flowering massively (for a tiny plant!) all over the yard this year- I think it likes the early arrival of our summer rains..
#Alberta #May