Merry Meet friends. It has been quite a week ..weather wise around here. On Imbolc Eve, we got a huge ice storm…lots of heavy ice, slippery roads, trees cracking and breaking from the weight of the ice, and power outages. Yes, we had a power outage..the lights went out about 11:30pm that night. We lit candles, brought in a kerosene ceramic heater to warm the lower floor rooms and hoped for the best. By the next morning..power outage looked like it was going to last for awhile. We ended up heading over to my daughters for the day and stayed warm and had a lovely visit with my daughters and granddaughter. Lights came back on at about 5pm and life got back to normal. It was Imbolc…my ritual ended up being very simple as I was so tired from lack of sleep LOL…but I threw open the doors and invited in Brighid and it was a Blessed Imbolc after all. I hope yours was too!
A couple of months ago..a facebook friend of mine..Tracy Jeffery..from Australia…posted a link that caught my eye. I went to look at it, and discovered that she had written a children’s pagan book…called “Kite Magic….A Tribute to the Element Air”. I looked at it, thought that I would order it for my granddaughter and then, you know, I kind of forgot about it. A couple of weeks ago, she posted a comment here on my blog and mentioned the book and that she would love for me to review it here. So I promptly contacted her, ordered the book and I received it, read it and loved it. So Tracy, thank you for your delightful book and I can’t wait til the other element books are written.
Kite Magic is about a little girl named Alana, 4 years old, who receives a rainbow kite for her birthday. Her Nanna takes her to the beach to fly her kite. (Now I am called Nana by my precious Lily so I loved that right off ! ) Nanna wears a shawl and a sunflower hat (which I love!). But despite Alana’s best efforts, she can not get the kite to fly….there isn’t enough wind. She is taunted by 3 boys because of it. Alana becomes sad and discouraged..her rainbow kite just wont’ fly. Now her Nanna..a wise crone…tells Alana that she can make it windy by calling on air. Alana does just that..with her Nanna’s help ( a beautiful charm here too). Their magick blends together and spirals upward and Air answers in a delightful way. The descriptive words of the magick wrought were delightful to me and I think any child would be entranced as well. Those boys who taunt her…well they get a bit of Karma as well in a very funny way! I thought this book was charming..filled with magick and vivid images. I also loved the illustrations by Danielle Rawnsley-Galistan..bright colors and attention getting for a child. I can’t wait until the next books come out. I highly recommend the book..pagan books for children are pretty hard to come by. For this book visit www.paganchild.com.au
I have been looking for signs of Spring..to no avail around here. We have had one of the snowiest winters I can remember. Not so much in huge amounts, but in constant amounts..keeping the ground white all winter long. Today, more snow. But recently, I have had visitors to our koi pond in our yard and just had to snap a few pictures. Signs of Spring? I still think so…but they are around here all winter long now…but seeing them makes me smile.
Lovely birds don’t you agree..I love the grumpy look on the one looking right at me! LOL
Then this morning..more visitors…7 deer walked across our yard…it was so magickal. I feel such an affinity with them. I see them as so magickal and majestic…my heart soars when I can be that close to them! Here’s a picture I caught before they went up in the woods.
Sorry for the misty pics but well, it was a misty morning! 🙂 I have heard many of my facebook friends talking about signs of Spring around their homes..so I know that Spring is coming soon. To feel the Sun warming the Earth, to see shoots peeking up thru the brown earth, morning bird song, the smell of the grass greening….I can’t wait for those days. I know you all look forward to those days as well. Spring is Hope Eternal!
Blessings of Love and Light, Autumn
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I just love those picture of your furred and feathered backyard friends! Truly Magickal indeed! That book looks wonderful and I look forward to the day that I have a grand child and I can read that to them! Thank you for sharing that with us!! Mossie
Thanks Mossie! It was magickal to see them and I was so happy to capture them on my camera! You will be a wonderful grandmother when they come along my friend!
Love you, Autumn
That book sounds fantastic!!!! I will have to order for my niece! I LOVE the pics! Absolutely wonderful! I love the deer. Some mornings (if I get up in time) I walk out to the back field and hide in the trees until the deer come out. They are breathtaking. We have a ten point buck who is just majestic. The hunters around here don’t like me cause I don’t let them hunt on our land. 🙂
Hi Owl my friend! Your niece will love the book..there is some humour I didn’t want to give away..
We have been blessed at this home to see the deer in our yard often…have never seen a buck that big in our yard but have around us. We don’t allow hunting on our property either but we only have two acres..easier to control 🙂
Thanks so much for your comments and coming to visit..I really appreciate it!
Love, Autumn
I may just order that for my nieces…though I’ll have to keep it at my house.
WOW! Robins already???? The groundhogs were right! 🙂 Lovely photo of the deer Autumn, my gosh, I miss having deer in my backyard! They were my most active animal totem for years…now it seems to be the squirrel! That book sounds just lovely…I don’t often see Pagan books for children and I love the idea! And I was just thinking…as I shoveled another foot of snow…that yes, this winter reminds me of 2009, we had a very snowy winter that year too, I remember the shoveling! 🙂