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There are Faeries at the bottom of my garden
Come into my garden, there are Faeries at the bottom of my garden. There are faeries in my garden... There ARE faeries in my garden I...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
May 18, 20233 min read
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Be Kind
During the years that I have been training Priestesses and Priests of Andraste, I have been blessed to work with very special people who...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Apr 14, 20232 min read
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What if?
Wednesday, 8th March is International Women’s Day, and before men start moaning, Men’s Day is 19th November, every year too!...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Mar 7, 20233 min read
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Merry Christmas!
I am sitting snug and cosy in my armchair looking forward to the coming days listening to Christmas songs that are stirring memories of...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Dec 22, 20222 min read
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It's beginning to look like Christmas
I wrote a few weeks ago that Christmas traditions derive from Pagan or Pre-Christian sources. I find it fascinating that so much today...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Dec 9, 20225 min read
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The Goddess of the Silver Wheel
As Samhain melts into Yule at the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and the coldest weather now begins. The land will be encased in ice...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Nov 25, 20224 min read
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The Child Within
This week my thoughts turned to Yule, well, to be honest, they have been turned to Yule since October began! I drift from Samhain, then...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Nov 5, 20223 min read
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Gathering of the Tribe
The Gathering of the Tribe is for all students completing their First, Second and Third Spirals, Priestesses and Priests of Andraste are...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Oct 12, 20224 min read
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I am Grateful
As the last warm days of summer began to fade last week, we visited our beach hut on Mersea Island at the time of the Equinox. It is a...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Sep 29, 20223 min read
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A Time of Mourning, yet a Time of New Beginnings
I had been wondering what to write in this fortnight’s blog, when our dearly loved Queen’s death was announced. Queen Elizabeth was an...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Sep 13, 20222 min read
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Betwixt Time
I like to take time and reflect at what I think of as the ‘betwixt time’; for now we are betwixt Lammas and Mabon on the ever-turning...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Sep 13, 20225 min read
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Glastonbury Town
I am in Glastonbury for my annual visit. I have been visiting every year, sometimes three or four times a year, for the past 14 years. It...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Sep 13, 20223 min read
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Story Time from Hedgewitch House
Isn’t there something lovely about watering plants in the evening just before dusk? Which is what I was doing the other evening, quietly...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Aug 24, 20227 min read
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Musings of Mama Witch on the Robin
Why do we associate the Robin with Andraste? We associate to each Goddess on our Wheel of Andraste many things; herbs and creatures as...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Aug 24, 20227 min read
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Musings of Mama Witch on Andraste
In our Temple our patron Goddess is Andraste, known as the Invincible One, She who has not fallen. There is not much written about Her....

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Aug 24, 20223 min read
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Musings from Mama Witch on The Wheel
The Wheel of Andraste Here in our East Anglia Goddess Temple, we celebrate the ever-turning Wheel of the Year, the eight Sabbats and at...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Aug 24, 20224 min read
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Musings from Mama Witch at Beltane
The first ever EAGT Pop-Up Temple May Day evening 2022, I returned home to two disgruntled cats after spending the day in Halstead,...

East Anglia Goddess Temple
Aug 24, 20222 min read
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