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Gratitude’s Song
Thank you sacred one thank you sacred ground thank you Ancient Mother thank you sacred womb Thank you loving family thank you sacred ground thank you sacred body thank you healing sound Thank you...
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Happy New Year!
On New Year’s Eve even though I had a horrendous migraine and family due to come over for a party, I took some time in the early afternoon to go down to the woods for a review of the past year of my...
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Embrace Possibility
Usually when I create a new design for a pendant or figurine, I know who I’m making when I begin. A few days ago, I created a new design who emerged as a mystery. When she was finished, I loved her....
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Spell for Family Balance
Cross-posted at Pagan Families. For a number of years we’ve had a family mantra: our family works in harmony to meet each member’s needs. At times, I’ve felt like I’m repeating it through clenched...
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Family Spring Equinox Ritual Recipe
Today we had a simple family ritual to celebrate springtime. We missed our family full moon ritual this month because I was out of town at a Goddess Weekend (and then it was St. Patrick’s Day and we...
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Gourd Drum!
My birthday was this weekend and my husband gave me some gourds and some goatskin rawhide pieces so we could make a gourd drum! I already have forgotten the exact details, but sometime in March we...
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Blackberry Summer
Summer’s bounty both sweet and spiky sun-kissed and thorny able to draw blood and to cause you to smile as you taste the juices of life. Summer is a time when you both wrestle with what isn’t working...
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Seed Corn
I dream of a sacred fire where a family circles arms linked as one. Shared dream shared harvest shared blessing of family, spirit, hearth, and home. Light the fire with your children. Sing with your...
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Womanrunes Book and Card Sets!
What are you unearthing? What are you digging up? What are you uncovering? What is causing sweat to drip from your brow, your cheeks to flush, and your heart to beat faster? This work can be dirty. It...
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Fall’s Return
I love the last roses of summer as the wheel turns towards fall. Weed it out cast it off let it go. Let it sink into the body of the Earth where it will be recycled renewed refreshed reborn. Let the...
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Simple Full Moon Ceremony for a New Baby
On October 30th, I gave birth to a new baby boy. He was born at home in water, my fourth homebirth, but my first waterbirth (his birth story is available here). On the full moon of his one week...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
“Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in...
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Family Winter Solstice Ritual Outline
“Only in the deepest silence of night the stars smile and whisper among themselves.” –Rabindranath Tagore (quoted in Dear Heart, Come Home page 52) As I prepare our family’s winter solstice ritual for...
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Winter Solstice Meditation
When the wheel of the year turns towards fall, I always feel the call to retreat, to cocoon, to pull away. I also feel the urge for fall de-cluttering—my eyes cast about the house for things to unload,...
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A Solstice Blessing
May you have a warm heart, open hands, a creative mind. May you experience inspiration and brilliance, clarity and focus. May you laugh richly and deeply. May you circle and celebrate, may you change...
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Seed Corn Ritual
I dream of a sacred fire where a family circles, arms linked as one. Shared dream, shared harvest, shared blessing, of family, spirit, hearth, and home. Light the fire with your children. Sing with...
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Day 1: Offering (#30DaysofBrigid)
This is our freshly rearranged sacred space with our annual intention candles. This is by the front door and I think it is the perfect place because it means the welcome to our home is sacred space....
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Day 3: This is My News (#30DaysofBrigid)
I have news for you. The sun sets every day The hollow tree is beginning to tip over Wind chimes sing Bushy tailed squirrels sit on rocks Deer have walked in the driveway There are bluebirds in the...
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Day 7: Praising (#30DaysofBrigid)
Today we had our family Brigid’s Day celebration. Our baby turned three months old on the 30th and so we also had a little three-month birthday ceremony in the woods in which we touched his feet to the...
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Day 10: Child of Poetry (#30DaysofBrigid)
…For I am child of Poetry; Poetry, child of Reflection; Reflection, child of Meditation; Meditation, child of Lore… –adapted from the Carmina Gadelicac (via 30 Days of Brigid)
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