Making Your Voice Heard
Before buying crystals, remember to ask where the crystal comes from and how it was mined. A lot of crystals are strip mined, which is very harmful to the land, and when handled often have a feeling of being psychically fractured or distressed about them.
Continue reading “Make Your Voice Heard As You Tread Gently On Our Mother Earth by David Rankine”
January 16th – Earth Dragon Day
Bronze Dragons originally dwelled in mountan caves or subterranean lairs. They’re the source of the mythos about dragon’s hoarding treasure, but as with most things it isn’t quite what it seems. Bronze dragons love weath but their definition of wealth is the wealth of the abundant land, lush green forests, sparkling waterfalls, flower sprinkled meadows. They are by their very nature ecologists. They can also be eco-terrorists if they feel their land is being destroyed. They can wreck any level of havoc when they’re upset but one of their favourite things to do is take back all the gold and silver and jewels they can find. After all it came from either “their” land or the land of a brother or sister dragon if people value those things more highly than nature why what else is a poor dragon to do to get some attention?
The first stirrings of Spring
1-2 August
Imbolc translates as “in the belly”. This is one of the most subtle sabbats and the only strictly feminine festival. It is the ‘quickening’ or stirring, the promise of Spring to come, for life once again begins to stir in the barren and sleeping land.
Land folk, I am here, newly arrived to this place.
I have come from my previous home,
where I lived under the protecting gaze
of the Land Spirits there.
In this new place, then, I wish to establish peace again
between my people and the people of the land,
as it has been done since the unremembered time.
I bring gifts to you, I bring offerings,
as a suppliant should when entering a chieftain’s hall.
Accept them from me and, with them, my friendship.
Establish between us peace.
January 16th – Earth Dragon Day
Bronze Dragons originally dwelled in mountan caves or subterranean lairs. They’re the source of the mythos about dragon’s hoarding treasure, but as with most things it isn’t quite what it seems. Bronze dragons love weath but their definition of wealth is the wealth of the abundant land, lush green forests, sparkling waterfalls, flower sprinkled meadows. They are by their very nature ecologists. They can also be eco-terrorists if they feel their land is being destroyed. They can wreck any level of havoc when they’re upset but one of their favourite things to do is take back all the gold and silver and jewels they can find. After all it came from either “their” land or the land of a brother or sister dragon if people value those things more highly than nature why what else is a poor dragon to do to get some attention?
Goddess of the hearth, beat strong and pure in the heart of my home.
Lord of the threshold, keep vigilant guard over the entrance to my home.
Spirits of the land, keep watch throughout the yard of my home.
God of the borders, stand ready to repulse all disorder from my home.
Bob Trubshaw
The earliest history of Oxford reveals that the long peninsular of land at the confluence of the rivers Cherwell and Thames was used as a barrow cemetery in bronze age times – a linear barrow cemetery being situated on what is now the University Parks cricket ground, with other barrows throughout the town. However, unlike nearby Abingdon and Dorchester, Oxford was not developed in the Roman period [2]. No reason has been put forward although it is assumed that the ford was known and used at that time. Perhaps the Thames and the Cherwell formed the boundaries of three Celtic tribes (the Dubunni, the Atrebates and the Catuvellauni) leaving the peninsula as ‘liminal space’ or ‘no man’s land’. Typically, the Celts placed shrines at the boundaries of their territory, on such areas of no man’s land, the ‘placeless places’. Although no evidence has been discovered of a Celtic shrine at Oxford, the idea tantalises me as it would fit the geography and might also account for the lack of Roman settlement. For lack of any better alternative, perhaps this shrine was situated at what is now the holy well of St Frideswide at Binsey (164:485081) – see [3] for a description.
by Dr Anthony E. Smart
The Australian natives call her, Mother Eingana, the world-creator, the birth mother, maker of all water, land, animals, and kangaroos. This huge snake goddess still lives, they say, in the Dreamtime, rising up occasionally to create yet more life. This primordial snake had no vagina; as her offspring grew inside her, the goddess swelled up.
Celtic Shamanism in herbal practice.
Written by Andrew Johnson MAMH. MBANT. DThD. RIr.
Introduction: My interest in Celtic Shamanism started about nine years ago. I had been
running a successful clinical practice since 1984 and for many years been involved in the study and practice of Ayurveda. For some time I had been aware that on a deep level I felt like I was missing something important. This feeling persisted and I eventually realised it related to an inner call to reconnect with the land and traditional healing wisdom of my ancestors (of Britain and Ireland) and the herbs and animals of this land. I was feeling a sense of disconnection and loss, and felt instinctively that reconnection would in some way be healing for me. This feeling led me to join the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids that gave me my first experience of Celtic Shamanism and healing. My experience since then has also been greatly deepened by training with the well-known Celtic scholars and authors Caitlin and John Matthews.
by Aldis Putelis
The Latvian word for “mother” and used to form the names of some sixty (some sources give the number seventy) Latvian deities. They are different and the ease with what they have been created lead to a conclusion that it has been a pattern at some time, assuming that there is a Mother for every thing and activity. Some of them have quite clear descriptions and functions (as Veja mate – Mother of Winds, Zemes mate – Mother of Soil/Land, Velu mate – Mother of the Dead Souls (veli), etc.), the others are mentioned just
a couple of times or even just once.
Witch's Well 