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  • The Plight of the Honey Bee

    The Plight of the Honey Bee

    Almost everyone is aware by now that honey bees are having a very, very difficult year. Bee colonies are dying all over the United States, imperiling not only the supply of honey, but also crops that depend on the bee for pollination, such as almonds, strawberries, blueberries, apples, watermelons, cranberries, and soybeans. While there are Continue reading

  • Trust Your Feelings

    Science has a long and distinguished history of showing that human intution is completely unreliable. The Earth is the center of the universe. No, it’s just a relatively small, insignificant planet orbiting a medium-sized star buried in a perfectly normal galaxy. The Earth is flat. No, it’s a sphere. The sun goes around the earth. Continue reading

  • Midsummer – Interview with Apollo

    If you’re a regular reader, you know that Apollo is one of my primary guides, and was the original inspiration for this blog. Over the past year, I’ve worked at improving my connection with him, to become a clearer conduit for solar energy. It’s been an amazing ride… Midsummer is the point of Apollo’s maximum Continue reading

  • Other Voices — Slade on Spiritual Innovation and Religious Tradition

    Guest blogger Slade Roberson participates in DruidJournal’s Other Voices Conversation about the Interface between Tradition and Innovation in Religion. Are you one of the spiritual but not religious? You’re not alone; and that ought to be encouraging, in and of itself. Religion without spirituality is a scary prospect. Your sense of spirit is what matters Continue reading

  • Magical Thinking: Science vs. Spirit

    In 1937, E. E. Evans Pritchard published a seminal work of anthropology entitled Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Pritchard had been studying the Azande, a people living along the upper Nile, for eleven years. In it, he recorded the interesting case of someone who cast a death spell on another member of the Continue reading

  • The Nature Church: A Place for All Pagans

    Our Druid grove has recently become involved in a really exciting (and daunting) project that could provide a real boon to all Pagans here in western Massachusetts — and all down the Atlantic Coast of North America, for that matter. For the most part, the Pagan community here in western Mass can be described as Continue reading

  • Interfaith Blog Event #6: FAITH (Faith in Druidism)

    I’m honored to have been invitied to join in an interfaith blog conversation held by Mike (writing from the Mahayana Buddhist perspective), Jon (a Protestant Christian), Sojourner (pagan/UU), and Matt (an evangelical Christian) — all bloggers I hold in high esteem. Every month (or thereabouts), we write on a topic of interest to us all. Continue reading

  • Taking up Death’s Scythe

    Thinking about the violent deaths at Virginia Tech this week. Continue reading

  • A High School Student Asks About Druidism

    Last week I was surprised and delighted to get an email from a high school student who is curious about Druidism. In particular, for a school project, she wanted to know about the relationship between Christianity and Druidism, and what factors led to the rise of one at the expense of the other. She sent Continue reading

  • Running with Cernunnos

    Along with all and sundry, I’ve been tagged by Slade of Shift Your Spirits to talk about money — everybody’s favorite topic. Slade’s got a neat twist on it that’s worth exploring: an exercise he picked up from Morgana Rae. Since money is such an abstract concept — for many of us, it simply flows Continue reading

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Word, Card, and Star – a journey through language, divination, and inspiration. A chronicle of my search for guidance, insight, and a connection to nature and the ancient world. Along the way, I hope to discover beauty, connection, groundedness, and a sense of wonder.

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