Spiritual journeys in tending the living earth, permaculture, and nature-inspired arts
At the beginning of January, I always do a 10-day spiritual retreat. It is rarely hard to go into retreat, but it is always difficult to come out. Coming out of any retreat can be challenging to re-align with the …
Blessings of the summer solstice and high summer to all in the Northern Hemisphere. And blessings of deep winter to all in the Southern Hemisphere. Here in Western Pennsylvania, we’ve been finally blessed with a rainy and warm summer, which …
In today’s post, I share an approach to herbal formulation that basically combines western magical systems (like the seven-element system) with herbal formulation and crafting herbal blends. This is essentially a synthesis of magical frameworks and herbal practices. A version …
Herbalism is the oldest healing modality on the planet.” – Rosemary Gladstar One of the challenges with the modern paradigm is reductionism–breaking things down into small parts and not paying attention the whole: especially the whole person, the whole plant, the …
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 …
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 …
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 …