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Shell Mandala at the Faerie Well

On Dreamland, the sacred land of the Green Mountain Druid Order (GMDO,) there are a few sacred sites. There is the Dragon temple which is a stone circle, the labyrinth, and the faerie Well. The faerie Well has recently been redesigned and turned into a temple, with smaller stone circle built around it. It was…

Bird’s Nest Mandala

  In my Druid training course work, the second year of training is called the Ovate year. Ovate translating to “egg.” The Ovate year is about facing one’s own inner shadows and disruptive phycological patterns that do not serve your highest good in life. At one point during this year one undergoes a “Death ceremony.”…

Earth Shrine (first)

Today I decided to build a shrine in a new area I have been walking lately. A friend and I walked here recently and felt a lot of energetic activity in the land here. That day we were also discussing a “Vision Fast” we would be taking. We were both asking for guidance around this.…

Mandala/ Gratitude and Closure

I’ve been contemplating closure these past few days. In reality nothing ever truly ends, it only transforms. Energy can not be created nor destroyed. It is however, still advisable to mark the ending of things ceremonially. It is good practice for our emotional/ mental health. A few recent conversations have brought up the parallels between…

Uncertainty/ The Eye

Today’s nature shrine, and yes there is snow in May here! My shrines often come from a place of what’s going on in my own inner world, as well as in the greater world. Uncertainty came to mind today. I think as we open the world back up a bit we are all feeling uncertain.…

Mother’s Day/ DNA

I was definitely thinking about Mother’s Day with today’s nature shrine. This was a balancing act to build! I can’t tell you how many times rows of items flew away, or a branch would fall and I’d have to start all over. In some ways it reminded me of the practice of patience and being…

Wanjo

I knew going out today I’d be working with the Rune Wanjo; “Joy.” This is an exposed quartz up in the high fields that I’ve always loved. As I walked by I saw it was shaped like the rune Wanjo! So I decided to build here today. The problem with building up so high is…

Ogham; Beech

Today’s shrine is my first Ogham! Ogham is like the Celtic version of the runes, and is often called the “Celtic Tree language.” Each symbol correlates with a tree, which correlated to the trees energy, qualities, and medicine. Those associations become the meaning assigned to that specific symbol, or letter of the alphabet. I was…

Ansuz

Today’s shrine was of the rune Ansuz. Ansuz is associated with “the god,” in particular the god Odin, the head of the Northern Pantheon. It’s complex meaning includes the idea of lineage, and ancestry linking each of us back to the divine source. It is often associated with the mouth and therefore speech, singing, toning…

May King and Queen

On May first I set out to make my nature offering. I had been eyeing this tree for sometime, trying to imagine what I could do to honour her. She was a very ancient, large maple. I saw her as “Queen of the forest.” On this particular day I was walking along the path and…

Beltane Faerie World (FIRE!)

When I went out to build this altar at the end of April I wasn’t even consciously aware of how close to the holiday Beltane it was. Beltane is a Celtic pagan holiday falling on the first of May. It is said when the veils between this world and the fairy world are at their…

Spiritual Warrior Rune/ Tiwaz

Tiwaz, or the “Spiritual Warrior” Rune has special significance to me. One day, when I was about sixteen, I was standing in the kitchen of our home. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, something hit me in the top of the head. Startled, I looked down and picked it up. It was the Tiwaz…

Wholehearted (Yin/ Yang heart)

One of the things that living in quarantine does is it makes us have to face our inner issues. Without the distractions of the outside world, there is no where to run and hide. I have been joking that it’s as if Mother Earth sent us to our rooms and said, “Now think about what…

The Moon

The moon and her cycles can be a good reminder of how everything in life goes through cycles. Cycles within cycles. I am currently experiencing the very early symptoms of menopause. That is part of a very large cycle in a woman’s life; Maiden, Mother, Crone. Within that I am still experiencing my monthly cycles,…

The Well

One of my first attempts at a “nature shrine” was simply bringing shells and crystals to this local well and placing them around the outside. I am a lover of the sea. I lived on the beach in Maine for ten years before I came to Vermont. I miss the salty smell in the air,…

Waterfall Flowers

This nature shrine was inspired by the Spring, and dedicated to this beautiful little waterfall I pass on my walk often. You can’t get the full effect of this one just from a photo. That is because it is about the sound and the movement of the water coupled with the strands of flower petals…

The Dragon

The night before I constructed “The Dragon” I had a dream. I was in the deep, churning dark sea somehow suspended in a “safe” bubble under the water with my youngest son. We could sense something powerful lurking around us, it was the force making the sea churn. At one point it stuck it’s head…

Algiz; The Rune of Protection

This nature shrine is of the Rune Algiz. Algiz is the rune of protection. I felt as though we all needed a little extra protection with this virus all around us. In fact, most people are now wearing protective “gear” when going out into the world including masks and gloves. Masks and gloves are good…

Cernunnos

Cernunnos is a Celtic horned god. There were many horned gods throughout Europe. It is believed that Cernunnos is sort of a final representation of all of these gods. But remnants of horned gods were found in many early European areas not just in the UK. For example, German and French cultures had a prominent…

Awen Sculpture

This nature shrine was inspired by the Druid symbol “Awen.” Awen is a symbol made up of three lines with three dots on top. Much like the three sticks I have placed here, and the three flowers hovering above. In the Druid tradition, it is supposed to represent energy coming down from the sun. The…

The Rose Spiral

I assembled this rose petal spiral high up in a sunny pasture. The wind was strong that day. The construction of this offering quickly became a lesson in impermanence, a reminder of how everything in life is change. Nothing in this world is permanent, or reliable. As the old saying goes, “The only thing that…

Rose petal Yoni

This nature offering was the very first one I made. Because of Covid-19 we are all semi quarantined to our homes. With a lot less distractions and a lot more time on our hands we are each finding our own ways of coping with an extremely stressful and traumatic situation, as a deadly virus is…

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