… A stone of receptive energy, Amethyst embodies peace, love, healing, protection, and spirituality …
Spirit of the Land, Lassiter Mill Falls
Several of my fellow COTE council members and I finally visited Lassiter Mill Falls after a year and a half of the quarantine. This site is special to us because …
An Elemental Ode to Thunder
The ground shakes with peals of thunder
The vibration of life deep within my bones
Singing through my marrow …
Ostara’s Best Kept Secret, a poem
Open, closed, all flowers, open or closed, all flowersAll are flowers whether open or closedJudgement does not fall upon the flowers from the flowersDiscernment flows through their stems with compassionNo …
How I Spent My Summer Vacation (a.k.a. My Biophilia Photo Essay)
I got carried away describing how cool the whole thing was and there was no room left for the pictures …
Where Once, a Poem
Where once sunlight fell, now shadows fall …
Ask the Trees
A squirrel hangs upside down in the Holly tree, dangled by nimble toes.
Reaching, reaching, reaching …
Brighid, a poem
My love, my hearth, my homeMy hope that keeps me warm.The thawing ground trembles beneath the snowBut we all look desirably upon your flame that glows.The promise that Winter will …
Walking the January Path with The Cailleach Bheara, Mother of Stone and Bone
Come Blue Hag, Great Bear Mother, Hooded Maiden, aid us in our tasks. For on this winters path we seek …
Moon Names for the Central North Carolina Pagan
… what if we named the moons according to our modern environment and experience?