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Fire maple of bright summer (fire card from Plant Spirit oracle)

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 …

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 …

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. …

A magical apple pie!

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Firing the oven--almost ready to pull the coals out!

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 …

updated on July 23, 2022July 24, 2022

21st Century Wheel of the Year – Reverence at Lughnasadh

Many of us are now going deeper into the experience of climate extremes. In the summer months here in the US, we are experiencing heat, lack of rain, and drought-like conditions.  It is hotter and drier, and that creates stress …

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Working with Spirit and Matter
updated on July 1, 2022July 14, 2022

Introduction to Animism: Definitions and Core Practices for Nature Spirituality

I am hanging out with a friend’s two daughters by a local lake. The lake is peaceful early in the morning, and we are enjoying watching flock of wild geese playing nearby.  One of the children picks up a beautiful, …

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Regeneration
updated on July 3, 2022July 3, 2022

Visioning the Future: The Web of Relationships

Late-stage capitalism has provided us with a series of visions about the future that are pretty terrifying. The grand narratives of infinite growth and progress at all costs have landed us in a warming age marked by the loss of …

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updated on June 27, 2022June 26, 2022

Ultimate Guide to Hugelkultur Garden Beds: Creating, Maintaining, and Benefits

Hugelkutltur (or Hugel for short) is a garden bed technique that uses wood and layers of plant matter, topped with compost, to build up moisture-holding beds over time. Hugelkultur beds were first described in Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture book and are …

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updated on June 15, 2022June 19, 2022

A 21st Century Wheel of the Year: Re-Visioning at the Summer Solstice

Human cultures throughout the world, modern and ancient, recognize the incredible power, potency, and magic of the sun. This is why so many cultures have sun gods and worshipped the sun, and this is also why so many ancient kings …

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updated on June 10, 2022June 12, 2022

Living for the Future at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage

As many of us seek to transition from our current destructive culture and create a powerful vision for the future, we need good models of what this kind of transition may look like. As we are moving forward, this often …

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Goldenrod
updated on May 29, 2022June 5, 2022

Biocentrism and Ecocentrism as a Core Part of Nature Spirituality

Once you begin walking the path of nature spirituality, things begin shifting. A tree is not just a tree, an insect is not just an insect–they are beings in their own right, with stories to share, lessons to offer, and …

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updated on May 1, 2022May 29, 2022

My Best Advice for Homesteading: Planning, Flocks, and Gardens

I’ve been homesteading (or what those in the UK would call smallholding) since 2010 at two different homesteads.  Through this, and through being in community groups and having many friends who are also homesteaders, you learn a lot of things …

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Friends enjoying the hot oven
updated on May 23, 2022May 22, 2022

Building an Earth Oven, Part II: Insulation, Finish Plaster, and Cob Mosaic

In last week’s post, we began exploring the build of an earth oven.  An Earth Oven is a simple structure, made of clay, sand, straw, stone, and fire brick, that you can use to cook foods in a traditional way.  …

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Fire in the near-complete earth oven!
updated on May 14, 2022May 15, 2022

Building an Earth Oven Part I: Foundation, Dome, and Structure

An earth oven is an oven made of cob (a mixture of clay, sand, and straw) with insulating features (firebricks, bottles).  It is an extremely efficient and sustainable method of doing any baking you might need to do. One firing …

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updated on November 27, 2022May 8, 2022

The TreeLore Oracle and Magical Compendium of North American Trees

One of the most important things we can do to address the challenges of today’s age is to build authentic, lasting, and meaningful nature-based relationships and spiritual practices that are localized to our own ecosystems. We can build deep connections …

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Regeneration
updated on April 23, 2022May 1, 2022

A 21st Century Wheel of the Year: Regeneration at Beltane

A druid walks upon a landscape, barren, cold, with trees cut and plants uprooted. Tears in her eyes, she surveys the damage that others have caused: the homes of so many animals disrupted after logging, the wild ramps and ginseng …

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updated on April 16, 2022April 3, 2022

Druid Tree Workings: An Initiation from the Trees

In the western esoteric traditions, and traditions tied to them, like druidry, initiation is a powerful method of transformation and energetic work. While features of initiation and their overall goals vary widely by tradition, many initiations do follow some basic …

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Colorful tree with spiral roots into the earth
updated on April 16, 2022March 27, 2022

Druidry for the 21st Century: Setting and Co-Creating Intentions with Nature

Intentions are powerful things. They allow us to shape our force of will and set a path forward.  They help us figure out what our own goals are. And I think because of that, we often see them as very …

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updated on April 16, 2022March 20, 2022

A 21st Century Wheel of the Year: Resilience at the Spring Equinox

One of the most resilient and enduring plants in the world at present is the Japanese Knotweed.  Japanese Knotweed is also the number one maligned plant in the world, as it is able to adapt to a variety of ecosystems …

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The AODA's Sphere of Protection in a Tree
updated on April 16, 2022March 12, 2022

Daily Rituals and Personal Daily Practices

Daily practices form the foundation of any nature-based spiritual or neopagan path. Daily practices give us a chance to dedicate regular time to our spirituality, to slow down and connect with nature, to protect ourselves from the daily energetic onslaught …

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Spirit of Poison Ivy
updated on April 16, 2022March 6, 2022

UPG and Me: On Gnosis, Personal Gnosis, and Unverifiable Personal Gnosis in NeoPagan Practices

As with any spiritual path, the question of how we build knowledge, what we believe, and where that knowledge comes from is important.  I think it is particularly important to druids as we have so few fragments of the Ancient …

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updated on April 16, 2022February 27, 2022

A Druid’s Guide to Dealing with Climate Change: Addressing Deep Emotions and Grief

Fear. Anxiety. Grief.  Helplessness. Despair. Feeling overwhelmed. Hopelessness. Powerlessness. Anger. Numbness. Displacement. Disconnection. Sadness.  These feelings are some of the common ones that people experience today with the pressing and growing concerns about climate change, the age of the Anthropocene, …

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updated on April 16, 2022February 20, 2022

Druid’s Travel Altar or Pocket Altar

Creating a little pocket or travel altar for your nature spirituality practice is a great way to be able to “carry” your practice with you, particularly when you are hiking, traveling, or simply out and about.  I’ve made a number …

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Fire in the near-complete earth oven!
updated on April 16, 2022February 13, 2022

Bringing back the Hearth: Ancestral Fires for Protection, Connection, and Comfort

Fire is one of the most ancient tools that humans have and one of the things that separates our species from others on this beautiful planet.  Humans have an incredible ancestral connection to fire. Think about how a fire draws …

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updated on April 16, 2022February 6, 2022

Nature Connection, Wildcrafting, and the Wheel of the Year

The Wheel of the Year is obviously a powerful symbol, both in nature spiritual practices like druidry as well as more general neopagan practices.  It resonates with something that is ancestral and connected–living by the cycles and honoring the seasons. …

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