Cerridwen’s Blog
Good gourds!
Interview with Cerridwen Fallingstar from The Breathe Magazine, October 2023 Good gourds! Why pumpkins are at the heart of many a seasonal celebration Pumpkins are as synonymous with autumn as the leaves falling from the trees and the nights drawing in as the days get...
Finalist Award winner of the International Book Awards 2020
INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS Honoring Excellence in Independent & Mainstream Publishing Spirituality: General Finalist Award Winner
1st Place Blue Ribbon: 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards!
Broth From the Cauldron: A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic earned a 1st Place Blue Ribbon for the Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction, the newest division of the 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards!...
Reader’s Favorite Book Review by Susan Sewell
Reviewed By Susan Sewell for Readers’ Favorite Broth From the Cauldron (A Wisdom Journey Through Everyday Magic) by Cerridwen Fallingstar is a fascinating and inspirational compilation of experiences of a Wicca practitioner and Priestess. Beginning with the author's...
A chapter from ‘Broth from the Cauldron’
A chapter from “Broth from the Cauldron.” Bear with Me When I was twenty-two, a few months after I became involved with Wicca, I went on a camping vacation with my family. Our vacation spanned the date of August 2, which is the Celtic festival of Lughnasad, the...
Broth from the Cauldron post
‘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 first...
Another Fine Year at The Witch Hatchery
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 ready to take wing (broom)...
The War on Halloween
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: Stop the...
Dizzyland
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...
Hellfire and Carnation
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...
Jungles of the Amazon
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...
Tortilla Rhymes with Chinchilla
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...
Japanese Shamanism: Ancient and Alive
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...
Inari; Power of The Fox
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 its...
EMBRACING THE CRONE
Women, Aging, Wisdom and Power A Day-long Workshop and Ritual for Women With Cerridwen Fallingstar Sat, Feb. 8th, 2014, 10am to 7pm $60-$90 sliding scale Workshop location in San Geronimo to be announced. (Introductory evening for both men and women – Fri, Feb.7th,...