Photo credit to Emily Martorano on justfarm.org Having decided midway through reading this book, Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard, to blog my reactions and reflections, I am continuing this post series (will I finish it? who knows) with Chapter 8: Other Biomes and Chapter 9: Livestock & Restoration Agriculture. These two chapters were rather …
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The coming week will be amazing!
The Eadhadh/Poplar (Aspen) Ogham few
Considering the Yule season and that the winter solstice (known in the Druidic tradition as Alban Arthan) occurs this week, Eadhadh is a most fitting and auspicious few to have drawn…
As the first of what I will attempt to make a weekly post, I drew for the first time from the new set of ogham staves that I have been working on. The wood for these hand-carved oak staves was naturally harvested in the grove where we celebrate the summer solstice ritual. It seems fitting to use them for the first time in the week in which the winter solstice will be celebrated; the process of harvesting and creating these staves was a long process that is now emerging within the movement of the earth as a dialogue between the solstices.
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Before introducing some of the concepts of archetypal astrology, I would like to briefly announce The DruidEye - a partnership offering druidic and shamanic divination services and handcrafted ritual objects and divination tools. You can find us at our website druideye.com or at our shop at etsy.com/shop/TheDruidEye We have also started a new blog dedicated …
Having decided midway through reading this book, Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard, to blog my reactions and reflections, I am starting this post series (will I finish it? who knows) with Chapter 7: The Steps Toward Restoration Agriculture. Why am I going by chapter rather than waiting to finish the book? Because even though the …
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Reblogging Willowcrow’s wonderfully-worded post with an added strong suggestion to check out the film “Inhabit”, which is linked in the post. The hope-giving documentary shows a wide variety of people, places, and situations that permaculture design has be successfully applied, inspiring the empathetic viewer to explore what ways they too could apply permaculture design.
Regenerating our lands for pollinators
As a species, we are facing a number of challenges that can be overwhelming—from global climate change to failing ecosystems, to mass deforestation and substantial water stress. Many who care deeply about the earth, who see the earth as sacred, finds themselves in a state of perpetual mourning and apparent powerlessness when reading the headlines or seeing destruction firsthand. The sense of being overwhelmed can be stifling, limiting, leaving you unsure as to how to do anything but strongly wanting to do something. It can leave you feeling that nothing that you do is good enough and nothing that you do as an individual matters.
The environmental movement doesn’t really seem to provide a meaningful way response because its largely based on assumptions that mitigate damage rather than actively regenerate. Environmentalism teaches us how to be “less bad” and do “less harm” by changing from…
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In response to The Daily Post's weekly photo challenge: "Motion." This photo was taken on the last Summer Solstice, the height of the year for the Oak King in the Oak King and the Holly King story. Although the dim light of the cloudy day and tree canopy prevented a crisp still shot of the …
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In response to The Daily Post's weekly photo challenge: "Fresh." The Spring Equinox is the day (in March for the Northern Hemisphere) where the amount of light and the amount of darkness are equal from which point afterwards the amount of light will be greater than the amount of darkness until the Fall Equinox (in …
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To celebrate the burgeoning life of our favorite park and Michigan in general, we revisted Wildhorn Rock and the place I now call Flowersong Crest (the hilly area being named for the abundant flowers, the constant sounds of birds and frogs, and its position in the southern part of the park's overall Celtic medicine wheel as …
A rare piece of fiction that I hope has a few layers worth experiencing on a cold winter evening.... On Becoming a Druid “Why are you here? “ His gruffness might have been offensive to some, but in his eyes I saw curiosity, compassion almost. “I want to be a Druid.” I answered. A breeze …
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It's March of 2014 already. Seems like we just had the new year, though I think the incessant snow skews one's sense of time. When I was a little girl, every first of the month I would venture out into the only immanently natural place I was allowed, the yard, and build what I would …
A Vital Recognition 