Michelle Plumb Spirit Spa

12/31/2025

Happy new year!

12/31/2025

The Next Reiki circle information is below. Ring in the new year with inner peace in mind.

12/27/2025

12/27/2025

My Nana used to say, the old Grey Mare ain’t what she used to be. Now I know where the expression came from. Also reminds me of the mummers we learned about in Newfoundland.

~ Honoring the Feminine Figures of this Season in Ancient Tradition and Folklore ~

✨The Mari Lwyd✨

The Grey Mare, Mari Lwyd, is a pre-Christian tradition of Wales, wherein a dead horse mysteriously comes to life, and brings good luck to those she visits, as well as frightening away any bad energies.

In Celtic Britain, the horse was seen as a symbol of power, fertility and prowess on the battlefield. In Celtic mythology, animals who had the ability to cross between this world and the underworld (the Celtic Annwn) are traditionally white or grey coloured.

Ancient folk made a figure using a horse’s skull, with decorative ears and eyes attached. They adorned it with colourful reins, bells, and ribbons and wrapped it with a white sheet which was carried around on a pole.

The Mari Lwyd and its party would go door-to-door, singing and challenging the families inside to a battle of rhyming insults in Welsh. At the end of this battle of wits (known as pwnco) the group would be invited into the house for refreshments.

~ folkwales.org.uk and wales.com

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"The fairies come in without bidding, to drink from the Wassail bowl, and to look at the lovely mare, her head all tied up with bows.
Fine soldiers lead her in, as roguish spirits make merry.
Now give us some food and drink,
and Happy New Year everybody!"

~ Welsh song for Mari Lwyd

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“One of the most charming of [winter] solstice festivals was traditionally celebrated on December 27th, in Wales, where costumed celebrants enacted the ritual of the Mari Lwyd. . . Never was there a horse quite like this one, decorated with ribbons and other seasonal ornaments. And could she dance! The arrival of the Mari Lwyd was the high point of festivities during the midwinter season.”

~ Patricia Monaghan

Art: Giada Rose Goodman
Giada Rose Illustration

12/25/2025

12/21/2025

"May the longest night shroud you in an exquisite, winter cloak woven from crow feathers, hope, and mistletoe, carefully stitched by a faithful, heathen crone who invited you to sit at her solstice fire. May you find a midnight home there, steeped in clove-and-evergreen belonging, deep in the dark and holy womb where the yet-to-come is nested.

May she bid you bless the Yule log with your breath and a rosemary sprig, and may you bring her an offering of story in return, telling her of those quiet moments from last year when joy found you and made you suddenly whole, when grief tenderized your rough and forgotten places, and when you woke with a mysterious childlike hope in your heart.

May she brew you a home-cooked remedy for your human aches from pine smoke, elder wisdom, and cinnamon, and may she sing you soft songs in a language some part of your ancient soul remembers. Together, may you dream each other into being one pagan prayer at a time, and may you make a memory so mighty it sets time and space to shake, sends the dream sensuously swelling with the primal, promising pulse of new beginnings and infinite possibilities.

May this fire-glow Yule be your initiation into a not-yet-named coven of poetry-hungry beasts and creaturely beloveds who ache like you ache, and may this dream-vision ceremony birth your wildest year yet.

And so it is."

A Wintertide Blessing by Danielle Dulsky
Image by Hannah Willow

12/20/2025

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12/19/2025

the curse & the cure.

12/18/2025

My husbands reading this morning. One of the things I love about spirit is the way they get their messages through. Look at the cards together. All different decks and yet the colors and the design of all of these cards relate. The message is so clear. Energy and insight will be flowing 🙌💫