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Seapriestess: Beach Poetry
Before we left on our trip, I envisioned spending some quality nature time sitting on the beach and composing delightful beach poetry. Turns out that I’m not really a “seapriestess” and should probably...
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Woodspriestess: Raspberry Warrior
Goddess of green spaces and deep places cleanse my soul. Anoint my spirit with peace and remind me to let go. Remind me of the power of appreciating that which I have. May I inhale and exhale with...
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Sacred
Let us be clear that when I say Goddess I am not talking about a being somewhere outside of this world, nor am I proposing a new belief system. I am talking about choosing an attitude; choosing to take...
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Family Full Moon Ritual
Two years ago, in conjunction with one of my classes at Ocean Seminary College, I realized that it was high time for me to try to offer spiritual nourishment and experiences to my immediate family...
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Wholeheartedness
“Wisdom comes from applying yourself wholeheartedly to whatever you’re doing. The lessons in life are in everything.” –Pema Chodron (in Open Mind, 12/18) Tonight after I finally extricated myself from...
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Winter Solstice Ritual Ideas
Inviting Our Light to Shine When you celebrate the winter solstice, May your light shine. When you share love, May your light shine. When you work for peace, May your light shine. When you teach a...
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Happy Solstice!
The winter solstice happens in nature around us. But it also happens inside of us, in our souls. It can happen inside of us in summer or winter, spring or fall. In the dark place of our soul, we carry...
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Birth of a new year
“Let’s work together, you and I, alongside earthsongbeat, heartfirst, handtouch souldance. please.” –Holly Wilkinson (in We’Moon on the Wall, 2014) Today my husband and I set a date to start our 2014...
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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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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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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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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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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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Day 14: Forge (#30DaysofBrigid)
For me, the profound shaping event was the experience postpartum with my first baby. I have never had an experience that shaped me and impacted me and SHOOK me more profoundly than adjusting to life...
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Day 20: Healing Water (#30DaysofBrigid)
I’ve been feeling a little short on self-care or physical care lately as well as short on relationship care. It feels like we’re constantly “running out of time” for the things we need or want to do in...
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Day 26: Shield (#30DaysofBrigid)
What does a sleeping nursling have to do with a shield? Well, I’m his. When I read the prompt for today, I was thinking literally, like a sword and shield. However, when I sat down to nurse my baby for...
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Day 27: Milk (#30DaysofBrigid)
Magic mama. She who transforms body and blood into milk. Into life. Into the heartsong of another. Maternal sacrament. Shared freely. Flowing sweetly. Uniting. This thoroughly embodied stuff of...
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