I’ve talked a couple times now about the idea of service and I’ve realized that maybe I need to clarify what I mean by that. Most people who honor the Gods and spirits* do so as the equivalent of what might be called laymen: someone(…)
Category Archives: By Land Sea and Sky
Why None of Us are Special Snowflakes
This blog should probably have a blogging while ill warning label. So you’ve been warned. 
There’s an expression in modern pagan communities: special snowflake. It’s used for people who are very vocal about …
Selago – Club-moss
“Similar to savin is the herb known as “selago.” Care is taken to gather it without the use of iron, the right hand being passed for the purpose through the left sleeve of the tunic, as though the gatherer were in the act of committing a theft. The clothing(…)
Nation Novel Writing Month
I am doing Nation Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) this year for the first time. The past few years I have sat and watched many of my friends do it and felt rather(…)
Celebrating Samhain
I’ve blogged about this before, but several people have asked this year so here is how I celebrate Samhain:(…)
The Taking of the Sidhe
Why do we offer to the Gods and daoine sidhe?
Not hard to say. When the sons of Mil defeated the Tuatha De Danann the land was divided between the two, with the Milesians taking what was above the earth and the Tuatha De taking(…)
Reconstructing Celtic Seership
Other people, including Erynn Rowan Laurie have been working on reconstructing Celtic seership practices for far longer than I have, and I highly recommend(…)
Patrons and Priestesshood
Recently I was reading John Beckett’s essay “Hearing the Call” and I think he raises several good points about the way that modern pagans approach(…)
Faith
I was reading a blog by Nimue Brown that discusses uncertainty, something which for me is the only constant. I believe that the quest for truth, the(…)
Flidais with Me
I signed on to contribute to an anthology about Goddesses and I had wanted to write about Flidais – I had actually begun thinking about what I would say and how, and had decided to tell the personal details of my experience with Flidais earlier(…)