Druid Journal

Guidance by Word, Card, and Star

  • Words of the Day: Faith, Fire, Free

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Faith Faith ultimately comes from Proto Indo European bhidh, meaning something like “persuade” or “compel”. When bhidh… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Disco, Elephant, Faerie, Fairy, Fate

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Disco Disco is the shortened form of discotheque, a French word meaning something like “nightclub with recorded… Continue reading

  • The Great Bear IV: Temple of the Bear

    Besides meditation, I did more mundane kinds of research on the habits of bears and the folklore surrounding them. I also looked up the meaning of “bear” (which means “brown”, but has a fascinating history — I’ll post on it at some point soon) and words related to it. I realized that the name Orson… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Call, Choir, Confucius

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Call From Proto Indo European gal, “to shout, shriek, call out”; it’s the ancestor of clatter as… Continue reading

  • The Great Bear III: Old Grandfather

    There is a word — it comes from Latin facere, “to make”; more specifically the nominal form, facticius, “handmade thing, craft”. It descended into Portuguese as feitiço, and came to refer specifically to handmade charms and talismans crafted by the inhabitants of the Guinea coast of Africa, frequently visited (and ravaged) by Portuguese sailors in… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Boycott, Brillig, Buddha

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Boycott Boycott is an eponym, a word derived from the name of a person. In this case… Continue reading

  • The Great Bear II: Trapped in the Earth; Bearing a Ring

    Early in the spring of 2010, when I was having considerable trouble with both my health and my finances, I tried meditating to get a message about what the root of my problems were.  I often have difficulty meditating on these topics, perhaps because I am so “close” to them — I feel like I… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Blue, Book, Bound

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Blue From Proto Indo European bhlewas, meaning “light colored”, applicable to anything from yellow to light gray… Continue reading

  • The Great Bear I: the Dream, the Trail, and the Second Temple

    My spirit guides tend to be very, very polite. They’ll rarely smack me over the head with a message; they’ll usually wait until I ask explicitly for help or direction with something. And sometimes they’re evasive or silent even then — especially if they know I won’t like what they have to say. But if… Continue reading

  • Words of the Day: Bewilder, Bizarre, Blog

    My old blog, the Word of the Day, is defunct, and I’m getting ready to take it down. Before I do, though, I’m going to repost some of the best words here over the next few weeks. Enjoy! Bewilder Bewilder is a compound word, first attested from around 1680, composed of two archaic elements: Be-… 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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