Winter Solstice: A Wedding of Dark and Light
Birch Trees at Winter Solstice Winter Solstice: shortest day, longest night. Summer Solstice is the opposite. The celebrations around these two events [...]
Advent: Season of Waiting, Wonder and Journeying
House of the Virgin Mary in Ephesus Advent: Season of Waiting, Wonder and Journeying The word Advent comes from the Latin adventus, [...]
Encountering the Matron and the Maid
Photo by Javier Saint Jean on Unsplash For All Hallows , I wrote about a series of encounters with the archetypal energy [...]
All Hallows and the Crone
For Linda Nenno, Beth Phillips, Ed Wood Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash A friend sent an email asking what did [...]
Resilience and a Bucket of Crabs
Photo by Adam Wyman on Unsplash A Story About Resilience Here’s the Bucket of Crabs story as it was told to me [...]
Autumnal Equinox: “WHAT IF?” Bell Curves
I’ve played “WHAT IF?” with a bell curve as a metaphor for many years because it offers a framework that helps [...]
Safety Redux: Helping Each Other Be Safer
Photo by Ben Hershey, Unsplash Thank you to all who responded (and continue to respond) to the blog, Ancestor Message: The False [...]
Lughnasadah: A Place of Grace, A Margin of Mercy
Lughnasadh or Lughnasa is an official Irish holiday (Lúnasa) and Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Historically, it was widely observed [...]
July 4th, Machievelli, and the Pursuit of Happiness
July 4th every year is a celebration of the Declaration of Independence from England by representatives of the colonies that became the United States. [...]
Summer Solstice: All the Ways of This World
“All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.” —Venerable Bede [...]
