Clik here to view.
Land Spirits
In the comments to a previous post, in which I advised pagans to become well acquainted with their local spirits, someone brought up the concern: How does one distinguish between the local gods/spirits...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch this immediately
I just watched this talk from Tim “Mac” Macartney this morning and started my day off with tears. It is very powerful. He talks about his love affair with nature – that he left behind and then came...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gods Not Our Own
In a recent post, I touched briefly on my strong disagreement with the idea that the gods only exist to help us. As if humans were the only things that mattered. One of the comments I received,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Our natural baseline
“I really don’t believe that a daily schedule chopped into quarter-hour segments is who we are instinctively. That is our acquired self, not our evolved self. Although almost everyone (myself included)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brad does acid
“I wish the squirrels could come over to my table so I could look at them & pet them but I get their apprehension. we can’t ALL be on acid” So this guy decided to do LSD for the first time and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nettle-Eater
“I was seeking something unknown, unknowable. I knew the names of it – I had read a thousand books describing it – but the beast itself roamed out beyond the edge and in the deep centre of things. Yes,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Shows Up
We have all played the “getting to know the local wights” game at one point or another (otherwise known as “Who Are the Spirits in Your Neighborhood?“). And on almost any decent bit of land, if one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Omens and Inspiration
There’s a wonderful post worth reading by Wendy Froud called Faery Gifts Inspire. I don’t know if Froud technically considers herself a “pagan” and I’ve never been entirely sure how seriously the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Nymphs
This is the sum total of all the information I wrote and collected for Wildivine on nymphs. Remember once again that all of this was written long ago and hasn’t been reviewed or revised recently....
View ArticleClik here to view.
And also, this.
“Eventually the shamanic path does take you to a place of altered consciousness, of getting outside your body….But before you go there, you have to understand the physical world on a deep level. If you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Living by Moon and Sun
The ancient Greeks lived by a lunar calendar – or perhaps I should say, by many lunar calendars, as calendrical systems and festival cycles varied from place to place within the greater Hellas. But...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mundane vs Physical
I have seen a few comments around the internet recently complaining of mystic-types who use the word “mundane” pejoratively; the comments seem to assume that such word use implies a rejection of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deepening Reconstructionism Locally
Over the years, I have become convinced that a deep engagement with the lands in which one lives is essential for those following a Reconstructionist path. Moving from an intellectual understanding of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anthesterion 2
Today I took a walk to a little patch of wetlands that was the first place I found which had a strong affinity with my daimon, when I first came to Eugene so many years ago. I hadn’t been there in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anthesterion 23
I begin the day with a walk to the winter farmer’s market downtown, and use the opportunity to do a bit of walking between the worlds. I find that heading to the market is usually a good time for this,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rewilding
Highly recommended reading: Rewilding Witchcraft on the Scarlet Imprint blog. The author talks about the coming destruction of so many species (and maybe all life) on Earth, and the proper response to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lava Lands
This past weekend, I explored two lava caves, walked on lava fields, visited an entire hillside of giant obsidian chunks, and swam in a lake inside a volcanic caldera. All within a few hours drive of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Living by Moon and Sun
The ancient Greeks lived by a lunar calendar – or perhaps I should say, by many lunar calendars, as calendrical systems and festival cycles varied from place to place within the greater Hellas. But...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mundane vs Physical
I have seen a few comments around the internet recently complaining of mystic-types who use the word “mundane” pejoratively; the comments seem to assume that such word use implies a rejection of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deepening Reconstructionism Locally
Over the years, I have become convinced that a deep engagement with the lands in which one lives is essential for those following a Reconstructionist path. Moving from an intellectual understanding of...
View Article
