The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/category/living/page/4)
Siobhan Ball introduces TWH’s readers to the folklore of the blackberry – including why you need to eat them before the Faerie Folk claim them for their own – and also offers a delicious recipe for a blackberry and apple crumble.
There is a question that I’ve asked myself sometimes and that I haven’t had an answer to for a long time: What do I get from working with the ancestors? From all the spirits and all the entities that I could work with – the deities, the fae, spirits of the land, egregores – why should I work with the departed specifically?
Sin embargo, hay una pregunta que me he hecho en ocasiones y para la cual aún no tengo respuesta: ¿por qué debería trabajar con los ancestros? ¿Qué gano al hacerlo? De todos los espíritus y entidades con los que podría trabajar —deidades, fae, espíritus de la tierra, egregores—, ¿por qué elegir a los ancestros específicamente?
It had been seven years since Anaar and I had traveled to Europe to offer this work. In many ways, we expected it to unfold much as it had before: a celebration of community, of poetry, of ritual, of art. And while it did indeed fulfill all that, there was another, more global reality that inserted itself into the mix: Covid-19.
I don’t know the likelihood that a specific tarot card would show up in five readings that I gave myself from different decks. I’d guess that the answer is “slim.” How do I explain it, then, when the same card appears for me in a dozen readings, from a dozen different hands?