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I’m a big fan of working with the prevailing energy present in a season or...

Welcome Summer! Summer has finally landed in my region of coastal New England. Temps are...

Tell your story. Share your gifts with the world. You are the light. Yours are...

Ralph Waldo Emerson prophesied, “The end of the human race will be that it will...

What chance does one little UU congregation’s green actions have to effect change? Not much,...

in these times of tribal politics, many so-called political organizations have started to express some...

Midsummer offers us the longest day of the year – a golden gift of sunlight...

What if Sleeping Beauty were in love with a woman? What if the dancing princess...

Reconnecting to our Wild self means reopening the lines of communication between our minds and...

The one thing we need more than hope is action. We’ve had thirty years of...

Despair won’t work. On Beltane, as we celebrate fertility and the joy of quickening fields,...

It’s really hard to escape the pressure of what we think our spiritual practice *should*...

Here is the truth: the people who went into the Labyrinth were never the people...

indigenous peoples may be the most powerful among us because of their knowledge of Mother...

The dreaming Earth begins to stir from sleep, to turn Her face toward the sunlight...

Anger is the way we learn what needs to change, and is one of the...

The maple trees whisper to us, “You can’t use every bit of your energy. You...

As a celebration whose purpose it is to awaken new life out of the darkness...

Candlemas is a time for rededication...Let us clear and refresh our minds. Let us kindle...

There is a reason that the Black Sabbath t-shirt we see in the first episode...

This month I composed a musical invocation of the directions that’s appropriate for the beginning...

Janus, the Roman lord of transitions, peace and war, the past and the future, hangs...

One of my favorite questions just now is, ‘What do you value about the dark?’...

The long night gives birth to the Sunchild. We watch for the coming of dawn...

“Whatever took care of me before I was born will take care of me after...

Take time to think how you are woven to many on this planet. Think about...

John Cooper writes, "May the light keep you during the darkest night; whether that be...

White confetti falls on countless branches shaping them with winter's confections. All sleep, save the...

Several years ago, I went looking for stories for the winter solstice that celebrate darkness,...

I love that these deities are presented in all this troubling complexity. Given the troubling...