A Sense of Place
Our chants and songs declare, "The Earth is our Mother: we must take care of Her," or "Mother Earth carry me; your child I will always be." But is the relationship of child to mother one we should continually be reinforcing? Read more
Our chants and songs declare, "The Earth is our Mother: we must take care of Her," or "Mother Earth carry me; your child I will always be." But is the relationship of child to mother one we should continually be reinforcing? Read more
Enjoy "Lughnasadh Dance" by Gwydion Pendderwen! Read more
Humans may manage the land with the utmost care, but the plants and wild animals are never completely under human control. Read more
Like many other Pagans, I seek occult knowledge and personal gnosis in formal ways, through practices such as ritual and the reading of Tarot cards. But they also find me when I'm not looking for them, often in relation to the more-than-human inhabitants with whom I share this landscape, and through conversations and interactions with friends. Read more
The Festival of Lughnassadh is approaching! The earth is swelling, the weather is warm, thunder rolls in the night, and the Irish landscape has been shaped with reminders of this ancient festival of The Bull -- Chrom Dubh. Read more
The kinds of knives that I enjoy tossing in my backpack for a weekend of camping or clipping to my front pocket for every day use are all illegal in Scotland. The fact that these tools are religious items probably won't protect me in court. Read more
The Gods of Pagan mythologies are involved not in an elaborate theology, but in an interweaving of tales of basic human-like needs, urges and relationships - sometimes mapped to land, weather and cultural practices. Read more
The abortion debate rages in the US and Ireland, and we ask, "Who has the right to self-determination?" The answer is radicalizing for an animist, leading down a rabbit hole of epic proportion. Is the disruption to our exceptionalism worth it? What ARE the (reproductive) rights of nature, anyway? Read more
Do people make a place the way it is or does a place shape the people who live there? Read more
Something started to change fundamentally in my theology once I moved to Scotland. I often say I learnt more magic in my first year in Eskdalemuir than I have ever learned from books or workshops, before or since. And it was the profound shift which happened in my consciousness which made both the change and the learning possible. Read more
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