Susanne Iles 7/31/24 Susanne Iles 7/31/24

Aido Hwedo: West African Creation Dragon

Before the Earth was formed the genderless Creator God, named Nana-Buluku by the Fon people of Dahomey, created a companion dragon called Aido Hwedo who was both male and female. It was a dragon able to move with ease between Heaven and Earth who carried the Creator in its mouth. They travelled together into the physical realms to create the world as we know it.

Susanne Iles 8/29/23 Susanne Iles 8/29/23

5 Heartfelt Ways to Celebrate the Landscape

Placemaking doesn’t have to be about rooting yourself in a single spot forever; it’s about valuing and nurturing the place you happen to be living in at the moment.

Maybe the old adage is true, “Home is where the heart is.”

Susanne Iles 10/17/21 Susanne Iles 10/17/21

Cast Adrift on a Perilous Sea

Life is like the edge of an ice floe. Sometimes it is the best place to stand. The fishing and hunting are bountiful, we are safe as the thick ice supports us, and the universe is generous in its offerings.

At other times, the ice can suddenly become treacherous. It breaks away from the shoreline and we are cast adrift into a fearful and endless sea.

Susanne Iles 9/17/21 Susanne Iles 9/17/21

I Had His Six

I had his six. It was my job to watch his back and help keep him safe from harm. He had been deathly sick and was vulnerable. I had his back, but then I looked away. It was only for a moment, but it changed everything.

Susanne Iles 2/14/21 Susanne Iles 2/14/21

I Call Great Cupid [Eros], Source Of Sweet Delight

I Call great Cupid [Eros], source of sweet delight, holy and pure, and lovely to the sight;Darting, and wing’d, impetuous fierce desire, with Gods and mortals playing, wand’ring fire:

Susanne Iles 2/4/21 Susanne Iles 2/4/21

I’m Not Like an Ordinary World

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”

― Charles Bukowski

Susanne Iles 1/12/21 Susanne Iles 1/12/21

Pocket Charm Against Lightning and the Devil

When I lived in Ireland I journeyed up and down the old roads, deep in the hills of the Ring of Beara. The land is steeped in stories, rites, rituals, and magical thought.

Susanne Iles 10/30/20 Susanne Iles 10/30/20

When the Trickster Knocks at Your Door, Will you Answer?

Eshu is seen as sitting at the threshold, guarding the many doors and roads which make up the human journey through life. We move through the doors of childhood to adulthood, single life to partnerships, mundane to magic, despair to happiness, birth to death, all the while hoping we are taking the right door or right path which greets us along the way.