Category: Seasonal Living
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Samhain: Cauldron of the Ancestors
“I feel the nights stretching awaythousands long behind the daystill they reach the darkness whereall of me is ancestor.” Annie Finch This time in between Samhain and the Winter Solstice is a time of descent. We descend into our inner being; into our darkness to find what it is we will bring into being at the Winter […]
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A Blackbird Flies Into My Life
“Blackbird singing in the dead of nightTake these broken wings and learn to flyAll your lifeYou were only waiting for this moment to arise.” The Beatles This morning my beautiful daughter and I had breakfast on the patio in glorious sunshine. We had no sooner tucked in when a blackbird hopping hither and yon, called […]
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Tailtiu
“When the fair wood was cut down by her, roots and all, out of the ground, before the year’s end it became Bregmag, it became a plain blossoming with clover. Her heart burst in her body from the strain beneath her royal vest; not wholesome, truly, is a face like the coal, for the sake […]
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Gender Equality – What We Glean From Myth
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.” Bernadette Devlin McAliskey The vernal or spring equinox is the next celebration in the eightfold of the Celtic Druid year in the northern hemisphere (autumn equinox in the southern hemisphere). An equinox is an astronomical event that happens twice in […]
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Innate Paganism
I’ve long believed in the idea of innate Paganism. It goes like this. The realities of life – the weather, seasons, agricultural cycle, and landscape – they all impact us, if we’re paying any kind of attention. When we respond to those things, we often end up doing the same things that other people do – […]