New Year’s 2017 Ogham Divinations

New Year’s ended up being a fabulous women’s retreat at a dear friend’s home in Maine. There was as much laughter, tears, and divine ridiculousness as five women could possibly summon! We kept with our Grove’s New Year’s tradition of a divination extravaganza after the stroke of midnight, January 1st. W. did wonderful tarot spreads […]

New Incarnation of Altars

Thank you again for joining us for a brand new episode of “This Old Altar,” with your host, Bob Vila! Er wait, that’s not quite right…let’s try this again: When I moved into my neighbor’s house last year, it was probably one of the best decisions I could have made during the divorce process. I loved living with B. and […]

Turning the Tables

Or at least, turning the cards. One of the cornerstones of my spiritual practice is drawing a tarot card in the morning to help me focus for the day. My views on tarot and divination are a bit muddled, perhaps because of my aforementioned paradigm shifting. I like to use the cards as a psychological […]

Read My Tea Leaves!

No, really. 😸

Dark Moon: Ur

Sadly, my real-life success with growing Ur, or Heather as we usually now call it, has been zilch. I just can’t seem to get the damned stuff to winterover. Apparently it thrives in acid soil, so perhaps a nice mulching of pine needles will help it along the next time I get up the gumption […]