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Exploring the Sacred Animals of the Quarters in the Druid Tradition

In the druid tradition, in multiple modern druid orders, we associate animals or fish with the four directions.  The classic ones are: The Great Bear in the North The Hawk in the East The Stag in the South The Salmon …

Mushrooms as Nature’s Alchemists: Cycles, Connections, Healing, and Vision

When I feel lost and feel like the hope is gone in the world, I go spend time with some mushrooms.  Mushrooms, more than any other organism on this planet, give me hope.  So much so, I’ve been doing an …

Putting in your Dirt Time and Connecting Deeply with Nature

As the head of a druid order, people often ask me, “What’s the best way to learn to be a druid?” or “What books should I pick up?” or “How do I get started in nature spirituality?” and my answer …

Diary of a Land Healer: A Vision of a Healed Landscape and the Power of Hope

In my ongoing work as a land healer, I find that I regularly need a retreat from my battered bruised landscape. Why?  Because this work is really difficult. Lately, it seems more so–we have large swaths of forests where I …

Multiflora Rose

Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT, & Midjourney: The Problems of Using AI Image and Text Generators to Create Rituals, Magical Tools, and Tarot Decks

A lot has happened since my initial post on the topic of AI and the bardic arts in mid-October.  At this point, AI is being discussed in many different places by many different communities and groups. AI is all the …

Spirit Journeying Part 3: Deeper Work

In the last three posts in  this series, we explored spirit journeying: preliminary and preparatory work, connecting with a spirit journey guide, and establishing your inner grove. All of these things were meant to set you up for the journeys …

Introduction to Spirit Journeying: Your Inner Sacred Grove

In the last two posts, we explored the preliminaries for spirit journeying: the preliminaries such as addressing issues like safety, believability, focus, and visualization and also doing an initial journey to find a guide that can assist you as part …

Introduction to Spirit Journeying: Meeting, Honoring and Working with Your Spirit Guide

Walking in the world with spirits, journeying with them, and experiencing their teachings is a tremendous way to deepen your own spirituality and connection to nature.  In the druid tradition, we primarily focus on relationships to nature, so spirit journeying …

updated on May 1, 2023May 1, 2023

Exploring the Sacred Animals of the Quarters in the Druid Tradition

In the druid tradition, in multiple modern druid orders, we associate animals or fish with the four directions.  The classic ones are: The Great Bear in the North The Hawk in the East The Stag in the South The Salmon …

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updated on April 22, 2023April 23, 2023

Mushrooms as Nature’s Alchemists: Cycles, Connections, Healing, and Vision

When I feel lost and feel like the hope is gone in the world, I go spend time with some mushrooms.  Mushrooms, more than any other organism on this planet, give me hope.  So much so, I’ve been doing an …

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updated on April 16, 2023April 16, 2023

Putting in your Dirt Time and Connecting Deeply with Nature

As the head of a druid order, people often ask me, “What’s the best way to learn to be a druid?” or “What books should I pick up?” or “How do I get started in nature spirituality?” and my answer …

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updated on April 8, 2023April 9, 2023

Diary of a Land Healer: A Vision of a Healed Landscape and the Power of Hope

In my ongoing work as a land healer, I find that I regularly need a retreat from my battered bruised landscape. Why?  Because this work is really difficult. Lately, it seems more so–we have large swaths of forests where I …

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Multiflora Rose
updated on April 2, 2023April 2, 2023

Artificial Intelligence, Chat GPT, & Midjourney: The Problems of Using AI Image and Text Generators to Create Rituals, Magical Tools, and Tarot Decks

A lot has happened since my initial post on the topic of AI and the bardic arts in mid-October.  At this point, AI is being discussed in many different places by many different communities and groups. AI is all the …

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updated on March 26, 2023March 26, 2023

Spirit Journeying Part 3: Deeper Work

In the last three posts in  this series, we explored spirit journeying: preliminary and preparatory work, connecting with a spirit journey guide, and establishing your inner grove. All of these things were meant to set you up for the journeys …

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updated on March 15, 2023March 19, 2023

Introduction to Spirit Journeying: Your Inner Sacred Grove

In the last two posts, we explored the preliminaries for spirit journeying: the preliminaries such as addressing issues like safety, believability, focus, and visualization and also doing an initial journey to find a guide that can assist you as part …

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updated on March 9, 2023March 12, 2023

Introduction to Spirit Journeying: Meeting, Honoring and Working with Your Spirit Guide

Walking in the world with spirits, journeying with them, and experiencing their teachings is a tremendous way to deepen your own spirituality and connection to nature.  In the druid tradition, we primarily focus on relationships to nature, so spirit journeying …

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Reishi mushroom from the Plant Spirit Oracle offers a vision of healing, growth, and regeneration
updated on March 4, 2023March 5, 2023

Introduction to Spirit Journeying: Preparation

Spirit Journeying is a technique that we use commonly in the druid tradition, but it certainly is not unique to only our tradition.  In fact, spirit journeying is what I’d consider being a core human spiritual practice, being used by …

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updated on February 26, 2023February 26, 2023

Earth Centered Spiritual Journaling through the Wheel of the Year Course

Hi everyone! Today I interrupt our regularly scheduled blog posts to bring you my big update–the Earth-Centered Spiritual Journaling course is now ready and open! I offer details about the course and how to sign up in this blog post.  …

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Tree of Life featuring Tanoma Ochre
updated on February 17, 2023February 19, 2023

A Conversation on Pollution, Extraction and Hope with Wild Pigments

There is a growing movement of people reconnecting to nature through the foraging and creation of wild pigments–pigments from the earth allow us to connect, grow and heal. This is so much more than foraging for colors from nature to …

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Gratitude and connection
updated on February 12, 2023February 12, 2023

An Exploration of Gratitude Practices and Plant Reverence in Herbal Practices

Please note: This article appeared first in my new column, “Roots, Shoots, and Spirits” in the Winter 2022 issue Plant Healer Quarterly, a magazine for empowered herbalists and culture shifters.  Folks can buy a year subscription or sign up for …

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Mugwort - the dreaming herb. This is mugwort from my Plant Spirit Oracle
updated on February 4, 2023February 5, 2023

Dreaming Primer: Lucid Dreaming, Dream Recall, and Exploring Dreamscapes for Creativity

The average human being will sleep approximately 229,961 hours over the course of their life.  Dreaming, including working on dream recall and lucid dreaming, can offer us gateways to cultivating a rich inner life and in supporting our spiritual and …

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Fire maple of bright summer (fire card from Plant Spirit oracle)
updated on January 30, 2023January 29, 2023

An Imbolc Ritual for Creativity: Maple Awen Ritual

Traditionally, Imbolc is a celebration of the first stirrings of spring coming back into the land. For people living in temperate parts of North America, particularly on the eastern seaboard, the timing can be challenging–we are in deep winter and …

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updated on January 22, 2023January 22, 2023

The Sacred Actions Wheel of the Year Journal and Earth-Based Spiritual Journaling

I’m really excited to announce the release of my new book: The Sacred Actions Journal: A Wheel of the Year Journal for Sustainable and Spiritual Practices.  The Sacred Actions Journal is a follow-up to my 2021 book Sacred Actions: Living …

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updated on January 15, 2023January 15, 2023

Daydreaming and Mind Wandering as a Creative Practice

What do Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory (the painting with the melting clocks), Elias Howe’s invention of the lockstitch sewing machine in 1845, and the Beatles’ song Yesterday, have in common? They all were ideas that first emerged in dreams. …

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A magical apple pie!
updated on December 18, 2022December 18, 2022

Celebrating the Winter Solstice with Sacred Foods and Feasting

The Winter Solstice has long been a time of feasting and fires, especially with regional and special foods, a tradition that has global significance in many cultures.  I’ve always enjoyed this time as a chance to dig into some really …

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updated on December 4, 2022December 11, 2022

The Wheel of the Year for the Age of the Anthropocene

It is hard to deny both the increasing challenge of climate change nor its impact on local ecosystems, local people, and all of us living in this age. While both druidry and Wicca (and many other neopagan practices) share the …

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updated on December 4, 2022December 4, 2022

Beyond Tolerance: Peacemaking for Diversity, Understanding, and Religious Plurality

In nature, monocrops are extremely unhealthy ecosystems–they are in a perpetual state of damage and cannot support other life. A monocrop is where only one thing grows, and that thing is the same as far as the eye can see–acres …

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updated on November 27, 2022November 27, 2022

Sacred Trees of the Americas: Linden/Basswood

Linden is always a joy to find anywhere you go. A tree with a gentle spirit and incredibly useful offerings, the Linden is there for you.  I remember meeting Linden for the first time when I was young with my …

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Firing the oven--almost ready to pull the coals out!
updated on November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

Earth Oven 101: Firing and Baking in an Earth Oven

One of the great joys and challenges of our present time is finding a way into a deeper connection with our ancestors, the living earth and her processes, and our own human gifts. A lot of this practice is slowing …

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