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- Relationship Status:
- very happily married
- About Me:
Glastonbury Abbey
Chalice Well is a healing well and garden nestled in a little valley which lies between Glastonbury Tor and Chalice Hill. It is famous for its waters - primary water which comes from deep down in the earth rather than deriving from the rainfall cycle.
Viviane: You call upon the God, and the Goddess? It is the Goddess who answers.
Morgaine: As Lancelot made his decision, deep within me there stood something I had felt for no man before. Within days, on the orders of Viviane, I was on my way to take part in the fertility rites known as the Beltane feast. The ceremony she called, "The Great Marriage." To whom I would be given, I did not know. But Viviane assured me that the future of Avalon depended on my playing the role of the Virgin Huntress. And that my partner would be the man that killed the King Stag. As I returned to the holy isle, a great longing gripped my heart. I hoped that the man at the Beltane rites had been Lancelot, but I had never seen his face. There had been no hint as to who he really was.
I am a collector...of tarot cards, old books, sterling silver jewelry set with rough natural stones, knives and swords, old spells from various traditions, herbs and stones and feathers, husbands and lovers, children, and cats. I love dark misty rainy days and movies and reading-- ancient love stories that linger throughout time and are filled with passion beyond human measure and biographies that beguile and make believers out of anyone of impossible dreams and their fulfillment.
I love studying the Craft: tarot…answers to questions not even asked out loud unfold before me and things that are hidden are revealed, and often what’s inside myself is revealed with it, the extraordinary feeling when the cards begin to speak to my soul and come alive before me eyes; alchemy…the Elixir of the Moon and the alchemical chant ringing through the centuries and the seekers and scientists and magicians and their teachings and their constant search for knowledge and answers to all the mysteries of the universe; astrology…the celestial bodies that constantly move through time and space, opening doors of understanding into the personalities of those around me and of myself to me, unlocking the mystery of why I am the way I am and why those I love fit into my existence; numerology… Pythagoras revealing the mysteries of numbers and the order they create within our universe; the Elements…the earth, air, fire, water, that touches every part of me and my daily life in every sense, and the ethereal beings connected to these elements, their presence felt always along the perimeters of my existence; the herbs…their scent and feel in my hands and their energy and magic just waiting to be unleashed.
I make my own oils and potions and brews and wonder at the shining bottles of elixirs and the magic and purpose instilled within. I naturally feel the waxing and waning of the moon and my own female cycle connected to it – it is mysticism from many paths that all seems to converge into one path for me.
I love good coffee and beer and black olives and chocolate. I love messy unmade beds and cats curled up on my sofa and the kitchen table...and I love brooms. I deeply love the wonderful man in my life and the love and light and pure joy that he brings to me. I love his passion and his quiet strength, his humor, his eyes and his touch; and when I look at him I know where my destiny lay.
I love our houseful of little girls and the uniquely feminine atmosphere that prevails, and our son's solid silent masculinity. I love dreams that startle you awake and stay with you for weeks or months-- vivid in detail and color. And I love moving through life aware of the fact that something elusive and powerful walks beside me...Blessings, Amythyst
Amythyst & her husband Dragonhawk
- Website:
- http://ladyamythyst.webs.com
“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.”
~ T.S. Eliot
To receive a tarot reading from Lady Amythyst, follow the url:
http://ladyamythyst.webs.com/tarotreadings.htm
This Professional Tarot Readers & Psychics Net Ring Site
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The Kitchen (or Cottage) Witch...for me, this is the epitome of what I have always viewed witches as being ever since I was a child. It is that unobtrusive and eccentric woman who grows herbs in her gardens and about her house, who has developed a unique and unusual relationship with the wild things that visit her yard and inhabit her grounds. It is the woman who has the ancient knowledge and wisdom to incorporate the magickal use of herbs in her everyday life—in the food she prepares, in the water and solutions that she uses to clean her home, in the incense she burns to smudge her living quarters.
It's not the flashy publicity oriented media image of a witch that people seek out...it is the quiet Wise Woman in the unusual house down the road; the woman people whisper about curiously amongst themselves, the woman cocooned in ancient mysteries and magickal ways.
This is the Kitchen Witch.
Blessings, Amythyst
My Friend, "Pie"
My fourth tatt.
The sketch is by my daughter Isabella.
The tattoo artist is Tory, at Dr. Jack's in Fremont, Nebraska.
Amythyst Raine's Blog
The Scent of Autumn
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The Dog Days of Summer
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The Witch's Corner...June Newsletter
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The Goddess Grove
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The Witch's Corner...May Newsletter
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