The full moon in Cancer brings themes of home, family, emotional security, and intuition to the forefront. The energy is intensified by the moon's proximity to Earth and its ruling position in the zodiac. Key astrological influences include: Emotional Intensity: Expect a surge of emotions, sensitivity, and nostalgia. The moon in a water sign encourages you to feel deeply and honestly, rather than suppressing emotions. Focus on Home and Family: This is a time for reflecting on your domestic life, family dynamics, and sense of belonging. Unresolved family patterns or childhood wounds may surface for healing. Balancing Inner and Outer Life: The Cancer moon opposes the sun in Capricorn, highlighting the tension between your private, emotional world (Cancer) and your public life, career, and ambition (Capricorn). The challenge is to find a balance where your work supports your life, not the other way around. Relationship Dynamics: The opposition to Venus and Mars in Capricorn can create push-and-pull dynamics in relationships, potentially bringing power struggles or testing patience. This energy encourages a focus on the most meaningful relationships and setting healthy boundaries. Intuition and Self-Care: This period is ideal for listening to your inner guidance and focusing on self-nurturing activities. Retreating into your inner sanctuary to recharge is encouraged.

Season's Greetings! I know I have been quiet and would like to extend a formal hello to all of you that have joined us here at Caer Noddfa. I apologize for the lack of current content. As everyone knows, this season can be brutal. But, this next year I have a lot planned and in motion to bring conversation and to build this community. We currently have the following planned: 1. Building on the course work here. I have a few goodies I have been collating and will go live. Some of these will be freebies, and some will be content for PREMIUM and VIP membership. 2. Community Gatherings. Every Sunday at 6PM we will have some fellowship to get to know each other. There will also be other Gatherings planned, including monthly ritual, and hands-on classes in various Witchy topics. I recently discovered that we can record these Gatherings, allowing more content to be maintained for future memberships and courses. 3. As Skool is primarily community-led, my goal is to build interaction. A major facet of my practice of Witchcraft is building relationships with self, and other-than-self, with all spirits, embodied and unembodied. So, this space is honestly YOURS. The material presented will be based on the Socratic Method. I am really good at sharing my knowledge and experience of Witchcraft and Magick (30+ years of it), but I want to provide you with the experiences to have your own Fayerie Tale. And to guide that, I need to know where you are at and what you are seeking. So, do not be afraid to post anything here. We all have wisdom. And who knows what piece of wisdom you have, someone else here may need. 4. Study Group. I am slowly building a Study Group. I am first and foremost, a Fayerie Traditionalist (a practitioner of the Ancient Fayerie Faith), a neo-animistic path that has its roots in spirit-reverence and soul Ecology. One book that highlights the essence of this practice is Robin Artisson's book, AN CAROW GWYN: SORCERY AND THE ANCIENT FAYERIE FAITH. I have led two Study Groups through this book, and we have discussed its content, and shared our own experiences...and I would like to do the same here. So, if you are interested, let me know what days and times you may be open to joining us, and we can schedule it. 5. There are a lot more things coming...

Greetings friends, What got me started doing what I do now is leading a Book Study. Under the name Ruan Map Dywenys, I gathered those who were interested in studying and practicing The Ancient Fayerie Faith (and animistic life way drawn from the Perennial Tradition of fayerie tales and folklore) to study together. We began this venture over on my Patreon and YouTube and moved to The Covenant of Caer Noddfa Discord. While the Discord meetings are ongoing, I would like to extend an invitation to those interested in joining a new rendition of this Study Group. It will be available for those who subscribe as a PREMIUM or VIP membership, and will eventually help to facilitate another course here for our Standard Members. Requirements: 1. Must be PREMIUM or VIP member of our Caer Noddfa Community. This helps us to pay the monthly fees for the Community and associated work to create said course. 2. Must have your own copy of the book (can be purchased through https://amzn.to/4sbGbqH ) 3. Must agree that Meetings will be recorded and that sounds bites, videos or comments might be utilized in development of this Study Group. In lieu of PREMIUM or VIP membership, something can be worked out (such as maybe a certain number of invitations to this community to boost membership). Plan on this going a very long time...my current group has been going through An Carow Gwyn for over a year now and we are only about 50% through, so long term commitment is essential.

To my northern hemisphere friends, and of course to my southernly friends too, who will be entering this old and important dimension of spiritual experience: Glad Yule and Mother Night to you all. I want to say a few things about this special "season", as I try on most years, but perhaps one day I'll really say what I feel needs to be said in a more accessible place. Mother Night definitely has a historical precedent, but like all organic and potent realities, it continues to impact people in different ways, if they have the special openness to it. This night, the night before the rising of the sun on the Winter Solstice is called "mother" night because it gives birth to that coming "first sun" of the solar new year. This carries ancient stories of world-regeneration with it, which are not just perceived astronomical realities from certain positions on Earth, but a spiritual or mythic kind of reality. For me, over these decades, it has become a time to really focus on and remember (and experience) the origin-powers and beings that we all are connected to. And by this, I mean The Mothers, a host of Ancestresses who, if you follow them back far enough, come themselves from The Ancestress- the Earth, or Nature more to the point. Our common origin in this incredible living body of powers, which we can call "Nature" if we like, is itself the real miracle that binds us all, this incredible thing we have in common. No problems or complications or fantastic, false stories that we become obsessed with or oppressed by can stand up to this kind of vision, this awareness or realization. It simplifies things in a rather marvelous way. It brings us back to who and what we are, before needless complications make us into other things. At least in our minds- but since we have to exist with these minds, what's inside them does matter a woeful lot. One of the most important practices I came to embrace over the years, with some historical precedents too, is the practice of Peace beginning on Mother Night and extending through the 12 Nights that follow it.

So, discovered half the reason I am having issues. Never updated my phone and my roommate needed to update the firmware on their router. So hopefully this weekend we will have our Gathering. I will be adding a bunch of stuff here soon from my laptop to our Community and we will begin to get the ball rolling. STANDARD (FREE) MEMBERSHIP: for those who join us here at the FREE level will have access to basic training materials and will be considered Students. Think of this as FIRST DEGREE MEMBERSHIP. Basic trainings within a Coven setting. PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP: this is equivalent to Second Degree membership within the Coven of Caer Noddfa. You will have access to relevant materials geared toward Second Degree Members, including courses, video calls, and community gatherings. VIP MEMBERSHIP: this is full membership at the Third Degree level, which gives you access to advanced courses, community gatherings and more. I have a lot of stuff forthcoming and ways to grow this community, but will need everyone's help to bring it together. First thing I am developing is a Study Guide course for an important book for working with Spirits (AN CAROW GWYN: SORCERY AND THE ANCIENT FAYERIE FAITH by Robin Artisson). I will be recording and getting that ready. We will schedule regular meetings to discuss.