I wrote this essay in 2021. I seem to need to revisit it each year. Being a creative is awesome. Except when it's not. I've been a creative my whole life; filled with ideas for projects, things to express and say, ways to collaborate. In my natal astrology chart the sun is in …
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a Spring Equinox ritual
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 …
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 …