Spring Equinox is Friday March 20. It's a day of balance, when Earth floats level and the hemispheres experience equal light and dark. It's also a threshold, a day that marks the beginning of the Light half of the year. Here's a check list and a little ritual to help you honor Spring …
Archetypes
purification
Last week was National Invasive Species Awareness Week.Perfect timing for Priestess season."Invasives" are plants that end up where they're not supposed to be and take over, choking out native species and threatening sustainable ecosystems. At Darkwood, I have a few patches of …
the blank page
One spring I stared at my empty firewood shed, despairing. I heat only with a woodstove and man does an empty woodshed make me nervous, even in May. Even if my other ones are full. A few weeks later a big tree fell. A red oak, top tier firewood. And because my woodshed was …
an Imbolc ritual
It's time for Imbolc and the weather is following suit. It's frozen here, maybe where you are too. The temperatures have been in the single digits, threatening survival. So, we do the work to survive. The weather isn't the only thing threatening survival these …
a year of patterns
I've spent the last nine years looking at the patterns of the moon in terms of the Darkwood Archetypes. The moon has 8 specific phases that overlay with the 8 seasons of the Wheel of the Year quite tidily. By looking at the moon's patterns in conjunction with the Wheel of the Year's holy …