We're walking the Wheel of the Year, spending around 6 weeks in each season. Normally, right about now we'd be completing a season and getting ready for a "rest week" when we clear off our altar, pause our anointing practice, and let the work of the season settle and integrate. But this time, …
Archetypes
How to Dream
I've used the image above as a Winter Solstice reminder for many years. It's a woodcut by artist Mary Azarian (brilliant, amazing, buy everything she makes). The image is of a woman sitting in her warm house, snug under a quilt, leafing through a seed catalog while it pours snow …
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 …