I've always loved Christmas. And I've always believed in Santa Claus. I believed in Santa unquestioningly until the 4th grade when one of my friends told me he didn't exist. This friend made perfect sense, describing the parents loading the stockings after the kids had gone to bed and …
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Ritual For Honoring Wisdom Keepers
Anointing Ceremony This weekend we have a "Wisdom Keeper moon", the waning crescent. This waning crescent moon is a potent time to be with the Wisdom Keeper, often in the form of ritual. With the "holiday spirit" underway, it's a sweet time to gather your tribe and pay tribute to the wisdom …
What will you shed?
On Monday, I watched a cloud of red-breasted robins descend on my little woods, filling the trees, the air, and covering the ground. They flicked at the leaves on the ground en masse, the dozens of tiny bodies sounding like a 300 pound bear walking through the woods. I had time to watch them, and …
Who were the witches?
I learned this song travelling through Yellowstone on a school bus filled with Girl Scouts. I've been singing it now to groups for decades. When my nieces were little they requested it as a bedtime song. Which is to say, you'd think my singing would have improved in all that time. But …
Integration
During my sojourn along the gulf coast last week I became aware of a painful fact: I was repeating a pattern of self sabotage. This particular pattern looks like this: ignoring my need for quiet contemplation, the inner wild, and communion with the mysteries in favor of staying current with …