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 …
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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 …
dreaming as a flex
I spend Dreaming season doing three main things. Dreaming, of course. And I'm also carrying firewood and reading beside the fire. This week I'm re-reading a novel that I first encountered many years ago, The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk. Like many works of fiction, …
invoking The Mystery
We're walking toward the Dark now like a bride down the aisle. The moon is darkening, too. It's special this year, having a Dark moon at the Winter Solstice. It doesn't always line up like that. So, this is the year to embrace Dark, to really be with it instead of wishing it …