A Witch Awakens

01/13/2025

Reading for Monday 1/13

Some of us are still refusing to let go of the people, situations and things that no longer serve and the Universe is growing impatient.

Wether out of fear, greed, insecurity, complacency or any other reason, there is no good excuse and it must be done to ensure we progress as we are meant to. No more holding on, only letting go...

01/12/2025

HAPPENING WEDNESDAY, Jan 15th - 6:30 pm at TheMenageriepgh in Bellevue, PA!

Begin Living in the Gray: Join A Witch Awakens for our Energy Balancing Circle!

Step into our sacred circle and immerse yourself in an experience designed to harmonize your mind, body, and spirit with balancing energy so that you to can Live in the Gray.

What Awaits You:

✨ Guided Visualizations & Meditations
💫 Group Energy Sharing
✨ Possible Channeled Messages
💫 Integration and Reflection
✨ Group Discussion
💫 Community Connection

If you can, join us for food, drinks and continued fun & community at Tavern Pizza afterward. 🔥🔥🔥

01/12/2025

Not a lot coming up this week. Jess will be hosting a Witchball class tomorrow and Tricia’s energy circle is Wednesday. It’s a great combination to be honest…put together some wardings/protections/whatever spell you’re looking for and then come back wed to cleanse and charge your energy!

01/12/2025

Hello My Lovelies!

Here is today's Guidance for Practitioners of the Craft. This guidance, as with all others I share, comes to me from many different types of Spirit Guides, Ancestors and Deities that I work with. As always, take what resonates and leave the rest. Enjoy!

01/12/2025

For this painting, I began with only a very loose concept of painting a knight riding a unicorn.
But the moment my brush first touched the canvas, I felt guided as if by a spiritual force.
'Moon Offering'

01/12/2025

Here is guidance from your Ancestors & Guides for today. Enjoy!

01/12/2025

Rodzanice (also known as “Rodzące”), Sudiczki (“Sądzące”), and Narecznice (“Określające”) are female spirits or deities intricately tied to fate, destiny, and the cycle of life. Revered in Slavic mythology, these goddesses of fate were believed to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of individuals, particularly newborns. It was said that they visited infants shortly after birth, gathering at their cradle to determine their life’s path. Depending on their judgment, they would bestow blessings, outline future accomplishments, or foretell the challenges that awaited the child.

These deities were viewed with a mixture of reverence and awe, as they held the power to weave the threads of destiny. Each name reflects their specific roles: Rodzanice emphasized birth and creation, Sudiczki symbolized judgment and decisions, and Narecznice represented the defining or shaping of one’s fate.

Rituals and offerings were often performed to honor these spirits, seeking their favor or attempting to influence the course of one’s destiny. These practices could include offerings of bread, honey, or milk, and the observance of special festivals to celebrate their role in human life. Their connection to fate also linked them to broader cultural beliefs about the cycle of life and the unseen forces that governed existence, making them deeply integral to the spiritual fabric of Slavic communities.

01/12/2025

Rodnovery calendar

January
1.-6. - Days of Veles (celebrated as wolf-days too)
6. - Days of the bull (bull means fertility, vol/bull as Volos/god of bulls) also on this day (with the south slavs) one should get water from a spring and wash in it or spell with it because water has special magick characteristics on this day. This day is also called Vodice and is a female celebration
8.- Day to visit your granmom (female celebration)
12.- st. Vlas day- assoc. with Veles. In some sources this is the day when Veles steals Peruns wife, so I think this is surely a day to feast, for its the beggining of the wheel.
Evening between 19. And 20.- the gate to Nav is closed, everything gets back to normal order, the sun/Krijes in the sky is lit (this means the sun starts its life and young Svarog (called Dažbog) starts his wheel).
17.-18. - Moranas days
28. - on this day the ancestors were celebrated and the old Russians believed if one doesnt feast/offer on this day everything in their house will turn topsy-turwy.

February
1. - Gromnica/Svijetlo (only day of winter when there are storms with thunder and lightning)
2.- In some sources also Gromnica but in the south celebrated as Sretenje- day when Winter and Summer meet.
11.- Veles’ day
Aprox.16.-20.- Horse days (ancestor worship)
20.- Triglav’s day
Aprox. 23. -27. -Mouse days/ Zadušnice (ancestor worship)

March
9.- Vesna’s day called Strinenija in some sources (notice that there is also another Vesna day celebrated in the south later or maybe just set wrong dates) In the noth celebrated as the day one should invite birds (and spring) with making bread shaped as birds and let children play with it.
Aprox. 14.-20.- Bijele poklade/Bijela nedjelja/ White week (ancestor worship and in the south days when the sun is born)
Aprox. 20.- Maslenica (Spring equinox)
21.- Vesna’s day
22.3-3.4.- Vodena nedjelja/ water week (when water gets special magick features)
24.- Komoidetsi are the days od honouring the Bear-god (representing Veles) This day is tied to honey, since the Bear-god is the god of honey and honey making.

April
3.- Vodan’s day (Russian, god of water)
7. Karna’s day (ancestor worship) Goddess Karna is of Russian orgin and represents crying and wailing
14.- Simargl’s day or (in the south) Ognjenbog’s day
Friday before Jurijevo-Biljni petak/ Herbal friday (Days when females pluck herbs, on those days thier characteristics are harsher and stronger, female celebration)
22.- Ljeljenik is Lada’s day, celebrated as the Slavic womans day
23.- Jurijevo (Jarilos day) in some sources it says 4.5. BUT NO THIS IS THE WRONG DAY TO CELEBRATE, THIS IS ORTHODOX/MODERN Sunday after Orthodox Easter- Krasnaja Gorka was celebrated with burning a Morana doll and with a woman singing spring songs with a red egg and bread in her hands.

May
1.- Živa’s day (day of the sun’s rerurn, when Veles’ rulement stops, Bijelobog rules over Chernobog and the gates of the underworld (Nav) are closed. With the dawn starts new life. Živa is a goddes that represents fire and its return. Fire and hotness are life, just like the sun. Also on this day we should honour our ancestors. Also in some sources called Rodonica when Rod is celebrated for the oncoming harvest.
Aprox. 10. Or the nearest Friday- Mokoš proljetna/ Mokosh of spring is a day when one may not do any harm to earth, not even put a knife in the soil for mother eath is pregnant with life and new beginings.
Aprox. 14.-21.- Rusalka week (female gathering and celebration with sacrifice to the Rusalkas- probably so they dont take any lives for the year)
20.-30.- Rites, honourings, sacrifices to Rod for the oncoming harvest. In some sources it is called Grudie Rosnoe and on these days there would even be human sacrifices in some parts of Slavic lands, wich shows its importance.

June
15.- Vidovdan/ Bijeli Vid/ Svetovid’s day
21.- Kupala (Summer equinox)

July
3.- Rememberance of Svetoslav the great (pagan king)
20.-Perun’s day

August
3 -Associated with Mokosh (female celebration)
7.- Day to honour Veles and Mokosh. This was called Medov spas/Zaziuki, it represented the end of honey making and ripening of fruits.
NOTE: Around this time there were no definite honourings because everything ripens and every night/day is good for honouring and thanking.
15.- Stribog’s day
18.-Hors’ day (Russian)
19.- Nature’s turn-around (day when nature changes from summer to ripening fruit and vegetables) also on this day untill the 22. One should get herbs because they have magick/more effective characteristics, wich is called Međudnevnice.

September
3.- Honouring the people of Novgorod. On this day Dobrinja prevailed and cast down all their idols.
15.- End of haymaking
24.- Radgost’s day or Svarog’s day, in most sources the Autumn equinox was adressed as Svarog’s day but in one I found Radgost. It was probably that both of the deities were praised on this day or it changed trough time. All in all, we can say this day we celebrate the Sun whos light gives us our crops but also we need to share our wealth and welcome our guests and friends to share with them.

October
21.- Maslenica (either a mixup in the sources name or the real name for another celebration) celebrated with making a corn-doll
29.9.- 28.10.-Baltic feast of the dead. October was celebrated as Veles month, called “Walla Manes” and this month is reserved for ancestor worship. The last day (26.) Is called Dziady and is celebrated.
Friday between 25. And 1.11.- Mokosh of Autumn, female celebration

November
8.- Start of evil spirit season, probably the time when Nav’s (underworld) gate is opened
21.- Morana days
26.-St. George day (Associated with Perun) on this day wolves are particulary dangerous

December
3.- Day of remembering Bogatyr Svatagor
6.- St. Nicholas day (associted with Veles), this is probably the contrast to Perun’s day in November
21.-Koledo (Winter equinox)
22.- Božić-Svarožić is celebrated in the south, probably the day when young Svarog (in other slavic lands called WHEN SMALL Dazbog) is born or his seed is planted to sprout to the real sun in spring.

Calendar compiled by neiru2013
art "The East Side" by Sukharev

01/12/2025

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01/12/2025

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01/11/2025

Reading for Saturday, 1/11

There are times when we are meant to shine brightly all alone, using our gifts to meet our own needs and other times when we are to combine our light with others and share our gifts with them to help in their endeavors.

We are being guided today to learn to use our intuition to know the difference and act accordingly in each situation.

01/11/2025

Me to a T

01/10/2025

Well isn’t this exciting?! It is not only set to happen but is scheduled to launch SUNDAY! This week‘s podcast is shorter than the others are expected to be, but is a nice little get to know us and how we got here. With a special guest appearance by Fred! Find us on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Castbox, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Overcast, and Goodpods. This episode is a bit rough. It’s a learning process and one we have already taken notes on! You can also follow the show on Instagram at .conclave.podcast with FaceBook soon to follow.