As I’ve shared before, I have personally gotten so much depth and connection from working directly with the earth for healing food, and medicine, and meeting my needs. More than just knowing or being out in nature, using nature to …
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The Lessons of Nature at the Winter Solstice
In the fall, I always feel like I’m fighting against the coming dark at the time of the winter solstice, and each year, I have to learn the lesson anew. This year proved particularly challenging for a few reasons. After …
A Druid’s Guide to Connecting With Nature, Part IV: Nature Reverence
Respect. Honor. Reverence. Admiration–these words are often used to describe people, in our lives, afar, or in history that we hold in high regard. But these same words can also be used to describe many druids’ feelings towards the living …
A Druid’s Guide to Connecting with Nature, Part II: Nature Wisdom
As any mushroom hunter knows, mushrooms are tricksy little buggers. What one looks like in one setting may not necessarily be what one looks like in another, depending on soil conditions, moisture, sun, size of the mushroom, insect damage, and/or …
A Druid’s Guide to Connecting with Nature, Part I: A Framework
A lot of people find druidry because they want to “connect” with nature. They want to attune to nature, feel part of it, gain knowledge and wisdom about it. But what does “connecting” to nature look like in practice? Going …
The Druid’s Garden as a Metaphor for Living
A metaphor for mindful living can be found through the understanding and application of the principles of the garden. The more you spend time in a garden, the more you’ll understand the power of this metaphor (and I suggest that …