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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 beingContinue reading “Mother’s Day/ DNA”

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 isContinue reading “Wanjo”

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 wasContinue reading “Ogham; Beech”

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, toningContinue reading “Ansuz”

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 andContinue reading “May King and Queen”

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 theirContinue reading “Beltane Faerie World (FIRE!)”

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 TiwazContinue reading “Spiritual Warrior Rune/ Tiwaz”

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 whatContinue reading “Wholehearted (Yin/ Yang heart)”

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,Continue reading “The Moon”

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,Continue reading “The Well”