Aisling MagickArt

04/25/2026

Another wreath workshop WRAPPED! I think everyone had a fun time and went home with some pretty wreaths to celebrate Beltane!

04/12/2026

Reading The Weather
I knew a man who read the land like scripture—
the turn of crows, the lean of ash in rain,
the way a frost would settle in a hollow
before it climbed the hill. He never said
what lay beyond, but felt it in the weather.

And I have felt it too, at times—
walking late, the road a ribbon underfoot,
the hedges closing in with their own talk,
a fox slipping across the margin of sight,
the whole night listening to itself.

It is not distance then but nearness grows—
the sense of something pressing close and clear,
like earth when spade first breaks it, rich and damp,
the smell of life that waits beneath the skin
of what we think is finished, closed, or known.

We carry it, that depth, without a name.
In breath drawn slow, in pauses held too long,
in every glance that lifts beyond the field
and lingers where the known begins to thin,
we edge toward what cannot be contained.

And maybe there is no beyond at all,
no farther shore, no last, outlying light—
only this dark that folds and folds again,
holding the stars the way the ground holds seed,
each one a spark not lost but waiting still.

So I stand here, between the hedge and sky,
feeling the night come up through earth and air,
and know that what lies out beyond my sight
is not a place I’ll reach by looking hard—
but something I have always stood within.

04/10/2026

May is a little extra this year!
Two full moons! May 1st and a rare Blue Moon on May 31st.

Spiritual Significance of the double full moons 🍀🍀

May 1st: Flower Moon🌙
A time of honored abundance, creativity, and emotional expression.Under Scorpio’s influence, this moon brings transformation, emotional depth, release, and rebirth.
May 31st: Blue Moon🌙
A rare moment of heightened awareness and spiritual perception.This moon supports realignment, helping correct inner imbalance and restore clarity.Guided by Sagittarius energy, it encourages expansion, truth seeking, freedom, and vision.
Lunajane

03/06/2026

Come out to Occoquan for a magical day!

03/04/2026

My Banishing jars are buried in the photo stack of my last post. Here they are! These are for when you need something, uh, "stronger" than a Protection jar! I have big ones to keep with you and tiny ones that, you know, you could theoretically put at the back of someone's desk drawer....

03/04/2026

Some of my latest jars, getting ready for my market this Saturday. I've been trying to create some Instagram stuff, but I haven't been having any luck, so.... Here we are!

02/09/2026

Patty Moloney Figliola -- Beautiful depiction of Queen Maeve.

Medb is one of the great queens of Irish mythology. She is known as the Queen of Connacht, and she stands at the heart of the Ulster Cycle. Her story is most famously told in Táin Bó Cúailnge, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, but Medb does not belong to a single tale.

Medb rules in her own right, she is not a queen by default or by marriage alone, she holds land, wealth, and authority: she knows exactly what she owns. In the world of early Irish myth, cattle are central. They represent prosperity, power, survival, and status. To count cattle is to measure sovereignty itself.

The Táin begins with a comparison. Medb and her husband Ailill measure their possessions, and Medb realises that Ailill owns one bull greater than any she has, the Brown Bull of Cooley. This imbalance matters. It is not a small detail, it is political. Medb decides she must obtain an equal bull, and when peaceful negotiation fails, she gathers an army and leads a great cattle raid into Ulster.

Throughout the story, Medb is shown organising campaigns, negotiating alliances, rewarding warriors, and holding the army together while the men of Ulster are weakened by the curse of Macha.
Medb is closely linked to abundance and movement. Her name is often connected to mead and intoxication, to altered states, feasting, and ritual authority. Her relationships and marriages are not romantic side notes, they are part of how power circulates and is maintained. Sovereignty, in her world, is something lived and enacted, not just inherited.

Over time, later (often Christian) retellings changed her image. She became excessive, dangerous, sometimes ridiculed. But in the core mythological material, Medb remains a ruler who knows her value and acts on it. She belongs to a system where power is measured in land, cattle, loyalty, and determination.

In this painting, I wanted to step away from the noise of battle and focus on Medb herself. A grounded presence, rooted in abundance and authority, surrounded by the symbols that shape her story.
Medb is not a simple figure, her myth is political, very human, and that complexity is why she still speaks to us today.