by Nicole Tostevin | Mar 17, 2020 | Interview
Cerridwen Fallingstar is a shamanic Witch and Priestess who has taught classes in magic and ritual for over forty years. She gives lectures tying together psychology, spirituality, history, contemporary issues and politics in an entertaining, enlightening and humorous...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Mar 27, 2015 | Teaching Stories
‘Double, double, toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.’ –William Shakespeare After my grandmother died, my mother found a small notebook in which Arbie had written down all my cute ‘sayings’ when I was a child first learning how to talk. The...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Mar 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
At this time of year, with a mix of sorrow and satisfaction, I murmur to myself, “Well, it’s been another fine year at the Witch Hatchery.” This means my last year’s apprentices, in this case the elegantly named Betwixtian Frog Queens, are...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Nov 6, 2013 | Articles
Time humor columnist Joel Stein interviewed me about ‘The War on Halloween’ for his column this week in Time magazine. The result is charming and hilarious. You can pick up a copy (Nov. 4th with Prince Charles on the cover) or keep on reading: Joel Stein:...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Nov 6, 2013 | Humor Memoir
Dizzyland ‘Dizzyland’ is what my brother and sister called it, perhaps believing that it was named for the effect produced by the tea-cups ride. My child-self secretly believed that Disneyland was the first level of heaven; I had recurrent dreams that one could break...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Nov 6, 2013 | Humor Memoir
Hellfire and Carnation “The kids want to know what church we go to,” I complained to my parents. We had just moved from Los Angeles, where the angels are, as the name implies, well and truly lost, to a church laden suburb of Rochester, New York called Chili, which...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Nov 6, 2013 | Humor Memoir
Jungles of the Amazon Ignoring the fact that her eldest daughter was swinging through the trees hollering like Tarzan and flying from rooftop to rooftop at the school pretending to be Peter Pan, my mother focused her homophobic anxieties on my brother. Girls could be...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Nov 6, 2013 | Humor Memoir
Tortilla Rhymes with Chinchilla One might expect that a school in a town called Chili, pronounced with two long ‘i’s’, chai-lie, the local schools might be a little substandard. I had come from a Junior High in Manhattan Beach where the local drug dealer parked his...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Oct 30, 2013 | Articles
Japanese Shamanism: Ancient and Alive by Cerridwen Fallingstar “The Queendom of Wa is ruled entirely by sorceresses.” This assertion by a 3rd century Chinese document is the first written record referring to Japan. Of course, every culture, world-wide, has arisen...
by Cerridwen Fallingtar | Oct 30, 2013 | Articles
INARI; POWER OF THE FOX –Cerridwen Fallingstar “Foxy Lady!”…Jimi Hendrix “I am the fox. You may not always see me. But I always see you.”…Z. Demers, at age 9. The fox materialized out of the pine trees and mist and stared at us. We stared back, mesmerized at...
