In my Witches of Griffin series, the triplet sisters are lightworkers, but they are also witches. Lightworkers have an intuitive ability to know what others are thinking and feeling so they can help people heal. Witches practice witchcraft which involves incantations and calling on other spirits for assistance. With duality on the planet, there are witches who […]
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In my Witches of Griffin series the sisters often use candles in divination and spell casting. In religious and occult practices a candle’s color is chosen by the type of energy vibration needed and the symbolism it holds. The burning of candles for spiritual purposes dates back to ancient times. The earliest use of candles is often
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I’m currently working on my Dimensional Shift novel, where my heroine, Aria Chandler is sent to another dimension via a portal in the Hoia Baciu Forest in Romania. Aria appears on Majestic Island in dimension 444 and is used as a bartering chip by the Majestic King. The Majestic king wishes to end the barbaric practices of
The Christmas stocking tradition began in Europe after the legend of St. Nicholas took hold in the 4thcentury A.D. The legend regarding why stockings are hung comes from a story of a widowed father who has three beautiful daughters. The family had fallen on hard times and the father worried that their impoverished status would
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The cornucopia originated in Greek Mythology in the 5thcentury BC. The myth focuses on a story about Zeus and how he was fed by the horn of a goat when he was a baby. Zeus accidentally broke off the goat’s horn according to some accounts, others claim the goat Amalthea broke her own horn, regardless,
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Carved pumpkins serve as a symbol of Halloween. The tradition comes from the Irish, who carved faces into turnips, gourds, and potatoes. There were no pumpkins in Ireland, but pumpkins had been grown in North America for five thousand years. The Celts believed that by carving scary faces into the vegetables and then lighting them
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In my new novel, Dimensional Shift, the king of Majestic Island is murdered. Burial customs on the island include raft, water cremations. The raft symbolizes safe passage to the afterlife, much like the burial boats used in Norse mythology. The deceased is placed on a raft that is set adrift into the ocean and then set
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I finished the rough draft of the first 100 pages of my new novel, Dimensional Shift. The location of this story takes place in dimension 2549, where the Earth is covered with 200 inhabited island nations. There are no large landmasses. Majestic Island is situated where Romania is positioned on our world maps. The island is
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In my new Time Travel, Dimensional Shift, the heroine finds herself in a dimension where spirituality and religion center on beliefs in the Goddess of Ayahuasca. Entheogens like Ayahuasca serve as the fundamental pillar of their religion. The “blessed drink” is consumed by the people on Majestic Island to escape the matrix of Earth and to view
Whenever I’m brainstorming a new novel I always begin with the words “what if?” What if I drop a 21stcentury woman into the past when women were given little freedoms and society held onto strict rules of conduct? How would she behave in such an environment, and how would others respond to her? Currently, I’m
