Happy Lammas! August's Allies and More!

In the heat of summer, I pause at the crossroads,lighting a candle in the sacred cauldron of my heart.I listen to the whispers of my soul,as dreams coalesce and possibilities take form.I stand in the center of my own life,where I extend my hands to touch the infinite fieldthat carries and holds me in each moment.I breathe in the ordinarygifts of life,the bright sky above me, the solid earth beneath me,the squirrel’s dance, the fox’s crossing,the falling star’s blazing message.Grant me the courage to show up,the willingness to notice and see,to love the ordinary and trust itas my pathway to the sacred.In this living practice of presence,magic, mystery, and meaningcoalesce.

Happy June and welcome to this week’s Rituals of Returning newsletter with our allies for summer! We also have some delicate “Prairie Rose” goddesses in the shop.

This week's magic:

18 minute mini ritual video: Back to the Roots: Tara, White Willow & Clear Quartz

scroll all the way down to the bottom for your free companion card set!

Back to the Roots kit with free printables!

and, Back to the Roots collection with more free resources unfolding throughout the month.

New essay on Feminism and Religion: Earthprayer

June’s practice update for #30DaysofGoddess!

We’ve started a new newsletter for Gaea Goddess Gathering! Coming up in September right here in Missouri.

Back to the Roots!

Back to the Roots is underway FREE for everyone as part of the Goddess Magic Mystery School, I’m so pleased to offer this Back to the Roots series in celebration of our 2000th day of #30DaysofGoddess. If you’re brand new to daily practice, this is for you—you are here on the 2000th day and it is a perfect day to begin! If you have been here since the beginning, this is for you—lets celebrate the life-changing power of daily practice and how devotion has changed, inspired, and nurtured you! If you have been here for any days in between, this is for you—I’m so glad you’ve shared your days with this community!

Make sure to check out the collection where all of the free posts will be unfolding throughout the month.

And, grab your welcome kit with beautiful journals and customizable covers.

During this series, we are revisiting the roots and purpose of #30DaysofGoddess and daily practice and we will also explore 7 days of guided practices, all with a roots-related theme. Our primary celebration will take place June 17-24, but I have background support resources sprinkled throughout the entire month as well.

To date:

welcome kit

kickoff replay

daily practice essentials kit

spiritual practices while traveling

reminders for daily practice

building a daily practice

root and reach yoga class (guest offering from Kimberly Pollack)

Life’s Bits and Pieces:

Go back to the roots,sliding past performanceand pleasingand back into center,into what holds and nourishes you. From this place of power,contemplate your choices,learning what isessential and true.

reading:

(to self) Ordinary Mysticism—I absolutely love this book! I started it in the airport on the way home and it is perfect for me.

(to kids) Into Battle, book five in the Seventh Tower series—I took a break from reading while we were gone to Nevada and so we’ve just started this one. I’m a little disappointed that they are now prepping for this big battle and solving the problems of their unraveling society and worldview with a fight.

(listening to with Tanner): How to Trap a Tiger—a story about a girl and her mother and sister who go to live with their grandmother in a small town and there is a mysterious, elusive tiger that she keeps glimpsing. Rooted in Korean folklore, but set in modern times.

(listening to by self): Mila 2.0—contemporary YA fiction about an android girl who doesn’t originally know she is an android super solider and is now on the run from the government.

Finished the Saint of Steel (Paladin) series by T. Kingfisher and they were all so good. Loved them. My favorite series this year! I also finished reading The Magic of Us.

Note: I am on Fable if you want to follow along with what I read there!

Resource Reminders:

Intro audio about the Goddess Magic Mystery School

I’ve started to add our monthly activation replay videos for this year’s #30DaysofGoddess practice to the homepage! Scroll past the “2026 Practice Updates” section to access the videos. Note: Live monthly activations are available to any member of the Goddess Magic Mystery School Patreon community free and paid both!

FREE class:

forty week Intro to Goddess Studies class!

Gift a Goddess Magic membership to a friend!

Tara, White Willow, and Clear Quartz: June’s Allies

Happy June!

Willow and Linden are our herbal allies for June—rooted, wise, and healing.

Welcome to our June and our allies for this month! This month we journey into the heat of summer, creativity, and the energy of Litha (the summer solstice) guided by Goddess Tara, White Willow, Linden, Clear Quartz, and the Mouse as our animal ally.

Thank you for being here! May you go back to your roots, let your feelings move like water, and welcome a clear, joyful reset this summer season.

Reminder: I do create monthly handbooks for members of our Goddess Magic Mystery School community and June’s handbook is available here.

Expanded post available here.

Questions to explore:

What would it feel like to let yourself be surrounded by love—right now, as you are?

Can you have a feeling without putting it into words?

What is stagnant in your life right now?

Where in your life are you repeating the same emotional script instead of letting it move?

Do you feel yanked hither and yon by the pull of your feelings or by other people’s needs?

What would it look like to let emotions flow through you and then go, rather than damming them up?

If you could return one aspect of your life to the “factory settings,” what would it be?

What are your own deep roots right now—what actually nourishes you?

When you go back to the roots, what do you discover you truly want to keep, and what is ready to be released?

Where in your life are you choosing what is convenient or comfortable over what might be deeply true or needed?

Affirmations:

I listen to the child within.

I am surrounded by love.

I nourish wholeness by going within.

I dance with what life has to offer.

I create my life with joy.

I dip my feet into the current of the sacred.

My emotions flow through me with ease.

I listen to the ways of water.

I stay open to what is.

I stay open to what’s unfolding.

I welcome a clear, loving reset in my life.

I return to my roots and open to new possibilities.

A gift to be here…

I treasure my place on this earth, the power of connection, the roots of inspiration, the softness of settling in, the certainty and grace of belonging. It is a gift to be here, watching it all spin.

Sending love to all of you.

Keep living your magic,

Molly, Mark, + FamilyHow to meditate wherever you are:right here, right now, grant yourself a margin for magic, a sacred buffer, one pause, one breath, one moment of enough. Surround yourself with the elements, alive in your own body and landscape of living. Lay your hands on your belly and whisper what you need to hear. Remember: you are allowed to have what you need. You are allowed to change. Welcome yourself home, whole and holy.

Happy Lammas and welcome to August! This week we have our special edition Pele-inspired Lava goddesses in the shop.

This week's magic:

19 minute mini ritual video: August’s Allies

scroll all the way down to the bottom for your free companion card set!

Loved this post from Joanna Powell Colbert about Swinging the Scythe. Perfect for this time of year. (And, reminds me so much of the Labrys in Womanrunes).

August’s practice update for #30DaysofGoddess!

Make sure to keep up with our dedicated newsletter for Gaea Goddess Gathering! Coming up in September right here in Missouri.

Side note: I’m listening to SO MUCH SJ Tucker as I write this newsletter. She’s our special guest at this year’s Thirtieth anniversary GGG.

Back to the Roots!

Back to the Roots has drawn to a close after celebrating our 2000th day of #30DaysofGoddess!

Make sure to check out the collection where all of the free posts are available.

And, you can still grab your welcome kit with beautiful journals and customizable covers.

Life’s Bits and Pieces:

Today, I listen to my body, where she is saying no, so that my soul can say yes, to the muse in both land and skin who know the way.My no is a spell of protection. My yesis a spell of devotion. I let inspiration carry me with ease.

reading:

(to self) Fields of Asphodel—a novel about the daughter of Hades and Persephone and her relationship with Thanatos. It is okay, but I do keep forgetting where I am because it isn’t that memorable. I also took a break from it while I read…

(just finished) My Other Heart—this was August’s book club pick at the library and it was so engaging that I ate it right up in a few nights. It is about two girls, one who is adopted and is half-Japanese, and one whose single mother is from China, as well also about a Vietnamese woman with a tragedy to investigate. It was really touching and felt very real in terms of characterization.

(to Tanner) More Milly Molly Mandy—these vintage UK stories from the 1920’s charmed me as a little girl and they still charm me today. Love them! I’m taking a break from reading to everyone because they got fed up with the Seventh Tower series and need a break. I’m going to be extremely sad if that series is what stopped my tradition of reading aloud to all my kids each night (including those in their twenties). :(

(listening to with Tanner): Conjure Island—a story about a girl who ends up having to stay with a long-lost great-grandmother on a mysterious island off the coast of South Carolina, where she finds out that she comes from a long line of Gullah people well-versed in Southern conjure magic. It is narrated by the same voice actor that narrated Mighty Miss Malone and she is one of our favorite narrators! She does an amazing job.

(listening to by self): Caroline—the Little House story told through Ma’s eyes. Sadly, my loan expired on it when it only had 2.5 hours left and now there are fifty-five people on the waiting list ahead of me, so who knows when I’ll get to finish it!

Note: I am on Fable if you want to follow along with what I read there!

Resource Reminders:

Intro audio about the Goddess Magic Mystery School

I’ve started to add our monthly activation replay videos for this year’s #30DaysofGoddess practice to the homepage! Scroll past the “2026 Practice Updates” section to access the videos. Note: Live monthly activations are available to any member of the Goddess Magic Mystery School Patreon community free and paid both!

FREE class:

forty week Intro to Goddess Studies class!

Gift a Goddess Magic membership to a friend!

Pele, Yarrow, and Turquoise: August’s Allies

Happy August!

Yarrow and Oats are our herbal allies for August—protective, nourishing, and encouraging.

Welcome to our August and our allies for this month! This month we journey through the heat of summer, centered on the fiery Hawaiian goddess Pele and the turning of the wheel at Lammas / Lughnasadh, the festival of first fruits, with our animal ally the honeybee, our crystal ally turquoise, and our herbal allies oat and yarrow.

Thank you for being here! May Pele’s fire help you release what is complete, welcome what is new, and remember that you can both sink deep roots and spread brave wings—and always find your way home.

Reminder: I do create monthly handbooks for members of our Goddess Magic Mystery School community.

Expanded post available here.

Questions to explore:

What in my life is currently being shaken and stirred?

Where am I feeling the twin pulls of creation and destruction?

What am I ready to burn away to make room for something new?

What does “home” in myself feel like right now?

Where am I craving roots, and where am I craving wings?

How can I honor both nesting and novelty in this season?

Where do I need a clearer “holy no” in my life?

How can I better guard my “dreamy little bubble” of rest and regeneration?

What is one way I can savor life’s sweetness this week?

How can I lean more into community and cooperative effort instead of carrying everything alone?

Affirmations:

I adapt instead of resist.

I release anything that restrains my elemental fire.

I boldly let my fiery feelings flow.

I am a fervent force of dynamic creativity.

I live with my soul on fire.

I call myself home to myself.

I sink deep roots and spread brave wings.

My boundaries are sacred, loving, and clear.

I savor life’s sweetness.

I defend what is precious in my life.

I am supported by my hive and I support my hive.

I choose and change.

The broth of becoming…

New in our bones, we step out of the broth of becoming where we have stopped to ponder purpose and possibility, felt power seep back into usand potential tug at our dreams. Now, we liberate ourselves. We emerge,magic dripping from our fingers, pulsing in our hearts, and singing in our skin, as we set forth, brave enough to chart our own way, to explore this unmapped landscape of choice and change we both carry and create.

Sending love to all of you.

Keep living your magic,

Molly, Mark, + Family

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