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Imbolc

January 28, 2015 // 4 Comments

Celebrated on the 1st of February, Imbolc means in the belly, because our mother the Earth is expecting. She’s expecting spring, and so we celebrate the transformation of old woman winter into young maiden spring. Imbolc is referred to by others as  Saint Brigid’s Day. It is a Gaelic festival marking [ ...click to read more ]

The One Lovely Blog Award

December 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

This is to thank two awesome bloggers who have such beautiful and informative blogs, Ch’kara at https://fromchkarasgrimoire.wordpress.com/ Heather Kemball at http://donningthecrescent.com/ for nominating Mystical Magical Herbs for the One Lovely Blog Award. Now the rules for the One Lovely Blog Award: 1.  Thank [ ...click to read more ]

Build Your Own “Food Bank”

December 8, 2014 // 1 Comment

If you put money in a regular bank CD, you might get 2.4% per annum, and that’s with a very large deposit to be put away for five years. Rates usually hover around 1% or a tad more for us regular folks with not that much spare cash. Recently, food prices have been increasing by an average of 3.5% in the course [ ...click to read more ]

Remembering September 11, 2001

September 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

  Herbs For Love and Healing… When this terrible tragedy happened, I was outside in my herb garden. I came inside at noon to watch the news and have something cold to drink. It was hot that day, and I felt nervous for some reason. For the next few hours I sat in front of the television unable to take my [ ...click to read more ]