I Love My Grove

Have I mentioned that recently? I. Fucking. Love. My. Grove. Friday we started brainstorming for opening and closing rituals at East Coast Gather. There was mind-mapping, spitballing, chocolate tasting, silliness, synchronistic moose, and the burn of Awen across our tongues and minds. Saturday the work continued (though I wasn’t there). Hammering of details, wordsmithing, logistics, […]

Dark Moon Tests

Seek me in the pine grove, if you would know who I am. Almost a fortnight ago, I took her at her word. Hufflespawn was with his father and the night was clear, if a bit cool. I grab my druid bug-out bag and head down the back steps into the orchard. With every step […]

Samhuinn 2014 Redux

Just when everyone is sick of Halloween posts in the blogosphere…here we go! Samhuinn and Alban Arthan are the two holy times that last more than a single day in my personal practice. I’ve written about my extended Alban Arthan celebration before, but Samhuinn has been developing more slowly. This year feels like it finally […]

9 Things I Love About My Grove

Our rituals are always outside. Always. Diversity. There is an incredible variety across age and economic level. Our youngest guest is 4, our oldest in her early 70s. There are doctors and potters, IT folks and landscapers. We also have a great deal of religious diversity, shaman to christian, atheist to polytheist. We all come together […]

Earth Web and Chestnuts

Yesterday was the third day of global rituals led by The Warrior’s Call, a group of pagan dedicated to the eradication of extreme fossil fuel extraction like fracking. October 4th’s Earth Web ritual was designed to create a world-wide network of protection against fracking via a sigil net. While my land is not yet threatened directly by […]