What is it about hares that makes them so emotive? The big, doleful eyes? Soft ears, that stretch down the back, like Rapunzillian hair? The gentle curve of a velveteen nose that you know is counting time, like a heartbeat? Michelle Shore, amazing illustrator for… Read More »Hares
They have pollarded the trees in their garden. The house on the corner has five mature Birches lining their garden wall. Their silver skin is dull in early morning light, but the milky white scars left by the chainsaws glow like candles. The gaps between… Read More »Root to rise – Imbolc 2025
Sun is up and Spring is here!Wake up all and have no fear.It’s time for greening, winter’s done.Welcome Spring and welcome Sun! ~ the Song of Waking I’ve been basking in the strengthening Spring sunshine this morning, then shivering in the chill wind that still… Read More »Springing back to life!
Harvest time. And the Lady is called to perform the hardest of her duties for the Land that she was promised to when she was born.
We don’t celebrate Easter in our house but we do have an egg hunt. It happens on the Spring Equinox and is about more than just chocolate.
Is the Wheel of the Year still a reliable path through the seasons? Now there is dissonance, inconsistencies, as climate crisis impacts our world. How do we walk the wheel without ignoring these changes?
Why ‘Walk The Wheel’ includes they/them pronouns and why it’s so important that we bring these varied expressions of gender into our stories.
Reflections on the Autumn Equinox (Mabon, Madron, Vernal Equinox) 2022, including spider webs and empty space, change and transformation.
Lammas feels like the right festival to be wrestling with uncertainty and discomfort. A time of sacrifice and space making, Lammas is the First Harvest.
I am a deckchair, saggy and unbalanced, unfolding myself onto a soft-looking patch of uncut grass.