My Heart Is Your Hearth: Imbolc 2011
My heart is your hearth. - A prayer offered to Brighid during my morning devotional I began preparing for Imbolc long before the first snow. I knew Winter would be a season of great creative work for...
View ArticleThe Kindred Speak Through the Tarot
I don’t normally share the details of my daily meditation outside of one of my weekly recaps. But today, in light of the power and poignancy of the experience I just had, I’m making an exception. I...
View ArticleI Think I Saw A Goddess
From Ian Corrigan’s blog, Into the Mound: 1: The Cosmos is holographic – the whole is repeated within the parts. Especially, the human microcosm reflects the macrocosm. 2: The Gods exist in the...
View ArticleThe Lactating Ewes of Imbolc
I don’t know much about cows. Or sheep. By "Lollie-Pop" on Wikimedia I know that cows tip (not from personal experience, though). I know that sheep are cute, and I love their hair. I was just working...
View ArticleI Keep Vigil to the Fire: Imbolc Poetry for a Goddess
Today, pious Pagans around the globe are posting poetry online in honor of the Goddess, Brighid (otherwise known as Brigid, Brigit, or simply, “exalted one”). I join them here on Bishop In The Grove....
View ArticleThe Action of Worship
My religion is experienced in the doing. This became clear to me as I entered the sacred space of our ADF ritual at Pantheacon, lifted my voice to invoke the spirit of Inspiration, and, for a moment,...
View ArticleWARNING: Call on a God, and He just might show up.
I drove an hour to Malibu for my Spring Equinox ritual. The location was a secluded, public beach called “El Matador.” The site opened at 8, and I arrived just a few minutes after the top of the hour....
View ArticleA Daily Practice Matters
This morning we slept in until 7:30. That may not seem incredibly early to some (it isn’t all that early for my husband and I), but it’s a vacation compared to the day of surgery and the first day of...
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