Workshop Spotlight: Please join Rev. Gretchen A.L. Schork this November for her workshop on working out the right time to get the most from your ritual! When told to plan a ritual for a specific magical hour, can you figure out when to do it without an app on your phone? This … Continue reading →
It’s another harvest time! Here in New England we are seeing the apple harvest and the pumpkin harvest, even if we don’t have personal gardens where we may still be finding some cool weather greens. I look over the yard and herb garden and think about the various herbs that have gotten … Continue reading →
Lammas, the height of summer, is when we think about “Harvest”. It’s hardly surprising, the grain harvest gives us bread, beer, and porridge, that which most of our cultures base our diets. True, the poor may get most of their protein from pulses, fish and eggs, (or in some cultures, dairy), with … Continue reading →
I woke from a fragment of a dream this morning in which I was having soft soil spread over me like a cozy blanket. Fully awake the image seems strange. On the surface it could have been scary, like being buried alive. Yet, as the folksong, John Barleycorn, suggests, the same actions … Continue reading →
It’s an old joke, someone says “freeze” to mean ‘hold still’ and the other person interprets it in terms of temperature. Usually we mean ‘hold still’, but that’s what happens when things get cold, they stop as they are. Or, sometimes when water is just at the temperature where some has a … Continue reading →