Kitty George says, “Soon as no one’s looking, I’m destroying that tree.”
Wanted to add a bit of holiday humor to your Yule season.
Blessed be, from my heart to yours.
And blessed be my cat and all our mischievous pets who inspire laughter.
Are You Baba Yaga?
I want a Faerie cottage on wheels,
in which to travel the country.
Traversing wide plains, in my magic hut,
I’ll settle down each night by its cozy hearth,
cat curled up alongside.
I will drink mint tea all day,
munch crisp apples by the side of the road,
and study rain.
I will park my home by lakes,
under oak trees,
on beaches,
in friends’ driveways,
next to waterfalls,
at festivals, at concerts,
and by farmers’ markets.
No one will see, except a few blessed like me,
that my home is not wheeled, but walking on giant legs.
Or giant wings?
I’m not Baba Yaga or, rather, not who she seems.
Because she roamed wild, wandered free,
they called her a demon hag.
They had to explain away an old woman traveling solitary.
But she was a Fey Witch. Like me. A shaman. A priestess.
We journey in our myths, serving our Gods
by ministering to those we meet along the path
and by our joy and play.
I don’t need a man, all I need are Gods and a cat.
I am a happy old woman alone. I am on an adventure.
A shut-in due to illness, every morning I hit the roads of Faerie.
Are you Baba Yaga too?
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Hiding, Healing, Power. Part Three
Written and painted in March and/or early April, 2012.
Part one: https://stardrenched.com/2012/06/13/hiding-healing-power/
Part two: https://stardrenched.com/2012/06/27/hiding-healing-power-pt-2/
Part Three
When she grew up, something else wonderful happened. That little girl grew up to be Goddess Diana—Great Mother, Light-Bearer.
Diana, Great Mother Goddess. Available as a limited first edition print. For more info, click on the picture.
A child became a deity, yes. Yes, she did. Let yourself hide.
Hiding is not always about shame or fear. It might be a time of preparation or privacy, a time of beauty or empowerment, a time of nurturance or growth.
Hiding can be motivated by discretion.
A hiding child became a deity, a bearer of light, a light held high. The woman no longer hiding.
That little girl was always god. But she needed discretion to find it.
Diana lived with her cat who was secretly a Faerie. (See Aradia, Gospel of the Witches, for lore about Diana and her Fey Cat.)
The woman, the Goddess, hung a welcome sign on her front door. People came to see her. (Mind you, she still hid a lot of the time, and we will get to that in a moment.) She healed people with her light. Or tickled them with it. She used her light to guide others to their own shiny brilliance and to that of the Gods.
Here is the welcome sign she hung up. 
Diana is Goddess of Witches. This warm, protective deity has given me tremendous solace and healing many times over the years.
Often, her visitors hid with her. That was fun.
And sometimes—often, in fact—she still hid all by herself. Well, her cat was with her. As were other gods. They are always nearby.
Tucked in her home, she traveled to wonderful places.
Her visitors went on great adventures with her, traveling between the stars.
Where You and Diana Go if You Visit Her. Available as a limited first edition print. For more info, click on the picture.
When someone is hiding, I look twice to find the god. The end.
Storyteller (the author, self-portrait). Available as a limited first edition print. For more info, click on the picture
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If you missed part one, here it is: https://stardrenched.com/2012/06/13/hiding-healing-power/
Hiding - Fey Strega in Training
Hiding, Healing, Power. Part two
Written and painted in March and/or early April, 2012.
This little Italian girl is another example of someone hiding. Why do you think she is hiding?
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Everyone who hides has a story. What is yours? It is okay if you hide some of it.
Here is part of hers (she wants to hide the rest): When she first hid, she had a pretty place in her mind. She started building it. First, she made the window frame you see her peeking out of.
She lived behind it with her Faerie cat. She giggled there a lot. The cat dozed in brilliant shafts of sun light that came through the window. As she slept, she dreamt up schemes for the little girl. They had many adventures, and no one saw. Except other Faeries. So many giggles!
It took a long time, a lot of work, and a lot of hiding to build more. (Sometimes you hide to find quiet magic, so that you can even imagine secret places in your mind.)
For years, all she had was that window frame to hide behind. But it kept her safe. I mean, look at all the detail she put into it!
Little Bunny in a Tea Cup. Available as a limited first edition print. For more info, click on the picture
And by the time she had grown up, her home was finished.
Want to know what adventures she had as a grown up? I’ll post part 3 in two weeks here. I blog once a week, and am alternating between this blog and the blog at my other site. Two blogs with two separate RRS feeds.
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