field notes on animism. tracking~

day 1. to find the sacred circle. it will open itself to you as it did when the tree breeze led you there the first time. begin with faith in this. trust the ecology. the calf high lime green underbrush tho unknown to you now is friend yet to be met. the holly grove is…

So much more to go

I think back on cabin time, that last night with the silver moon under the spring born trees. We’d had that miraculous equinox together under the old growths at the Susquehanna basin only days before, then because I took off for my birthday week finally for the first time in so very many months I…

Dark Moon to Summer Solstice

Fireflies sparking up the edges of the inky night…honeysuckle intoxicants ringing green around the vine…ahhhh dear loves, must be Summa Time That’s right, tomorrow’s New Moon cycle brings about Litha, or the Summer Solstice, which also means today and this week so far overall, we’re in and have been in that deep stronghold of forced…

Week of wild roses

In the morning on the front porch in full white light of the sun I thought about patience and talked to the Mystery a long while. Sorta felt my worries burn off. Drank nettle tea because I had too much oatstraw this week. I studied Jesus the year I was 30 for a whole year,…

Lunar Beltane Super Moon

Lunar Beltane Super Moon Monday evening, friends. Lunar Beltane is the pagan name for the full moon that occurs when the sun is in the house of Taurus. Learning to track the year by this lunar-led Wheel of the Year perspective is a very cool practice in cyclical seeing or wisdom. The classic pagan tradition…

Moony Magic Was Afoot

It was 80 and blowing Friday so hard at times I swear you could see the spring time yellow light gusting by on the air. I left the cabin in the morning with just enough time to take two main backroads to the other side of 50 where our meeting was. We all arrived at…

Welcome Season of Light: Vernal Equinox 2021

Happy Spring or Vernal Equinox, friends. Occurring tomorrow morning here on the MidAtlantic seaboard of the East Coast, this day and ultimately the days around it, because of the alignment of sun and earth, marks a time of equal daylight and nighttime. For pagans, it’s a chance to acknowledge the passing of the season of…

Spring forward with the New Moon this weekend

Happy dark into New Moon weekend, dear ones & mmmm what a yummm yummmy one it’s setting up to be~ Overnight, Saturday, we not only “Spring” forward an hour, we also have the alchemy of dark into light that marks the new lunation, or moon cycle, with a New Moon. This is the lunation that…