Holly – Eighth month of the Ogham Celtic Tree calendar, July 8th – August 4th

The year has turned, the Holly king rises into ascendancy as the light begins to wane. http://www.thegoddesstree.com/trees/Holly.htm Tree of SacrificeIlexEighth month of the Celtic Tree calendar, July 8th – August 4thEighth consonant of the Ogham alphabet – Tinne  Planet: Mars and SaturnElement: FireSymbolism: The Sword of Truth, Unconditional love, sacrifice, reincarnationStone: Ruby, BloodstonePowers: Protection, Anti-Lightning, Luck, Dream Read more about Holly – Eighth month of the Ogham Celtic Tree calendar, July 8th – August 4th[…]

July Bloom & Wild

A messy riot, Purple Knapweed, Yellow wagtails, red hot Pokers of Rosebay Willowherb & Puffs of Meadowsweet against a backdrop of Thunderous skies & the smell of cool woodlands 3rd The Dog days of summer – the Time of searing heat 7th Chinese season of Xiǎo shǔ – Slight heat 10th Full Buck moon in Read more about July Bloom & Wild[…]

Initiation Song from the Finders Lodge

Please bring strange things. Please come bringing new things. Let very old things come into your hands. Let what you do not know come into your eyes. Let desert sand harden your feet. Let the arch of your feet be the mountains. Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps and the ways you go be the lines on your palms. Let Read more about Initiation Song from the Finders Lodge[…]

Midsummer

Pollination – Declare and Share – Union Purple and Orangealchemy & devilment. Here is midsummer.The time of purple and orange.Out of a Jurassic forest of foliage rise the polemonium spears.holding aloft their beautiful-blue purple flower clusters.While pink-purple rockets burst forth on the buddleia bush.And Orange hawkbit waft their devil’s paintbrushes highamong the tall spears of Read more about Midsummer[…]