Today I had the pleasure of inventing a new recipe for mead with Sylvia, mead mistress extraordinaire. She had a lot of gallon bags of pears in her freezer; gifts from friends with pear trees who know that brewers are always happy to accept ingredients for mead. (Brewers who have chest freezers, anyway.) As soon …
This past weekend at Ardantane, we went on a weekend-long musical journey. We explored many ways music expresses and enhances earth-based spirituality. Today’s post will focus on one of several workshops I taught there: How to Write a Chant for your Spirit Animal. Ardantane is a wonderful place for connecting with our animal allies. We …
Happy Mother’s Day! Earth spirituality often depicts the earth as a mother: the source of nourishment, healing and comfort. From “give thanks to the Mother Goddess” to “the earth is our mother, we must take care of her”, images of the divine mother abound in pagan songs. One of the things that drew me into …
Happy Beltane! Today we release our third album! You can purchase it from us right here on this website! Here’s what band members have to say on this exciting day. Why now? Why release an album in 2019? Crow Women began as a women’s Goddess Spirituality circle in 1992. Many of our members love to …
Welcome to the first installment of our series on brewing for pagan ceremonies. Our featured brewer this time is Sylvia, who showed me how to make a pomegranate mead for the autumn holidays. Sylvia emphasized the importance of sterilizing everything. Sometimes she uses an oxygen cleaner, such as One Step. She didn’t have any on …
So, you’d like to write a song. Here are just a few tips to get you going. 1. Sing to your pet, plant or baby What you need to begin is an uncritical audience. For me it’s my cat, Talisman. I often sing to him when I get up in the morning. Sometimes there are …
Want to spend a weekend immersing yourself in pagan music? A chance to soak in a creative cauldron of song is coming up May 17, 18 & 19, 2019. I’ll be leading a Pagan Music Retreat at Ardantane Pagan Learning Center in lovely Jemez Canyon, north of Albuquerque, New Mexico. To register, go to https://www.ardantane.org/courses/ …
The Crow Women have been in the recording studio on and off for the past 10 months, working on our upcoming new album. Our previous CD, Crow Magic, was released in the summer of 2012. It had two main themes. One was rites of passage, including songs for baby blessings, coming of age, handfasting, croning …
I wrote the song that is the opening track on the Crow Women’s second album, Crow Magic. It’s titled The Law of Three. It’s a little chant with a big message: The Law of Three says what I give out, then, the world gives back and the world gives back and the world gives back …
This is an exciting moment; the launching of pagansong.com! For many years I have taught workshops at pagan festivals on how to use music in ritual. Many of the songs I share in my workshops were recorded by the Crow Women, an amazing group of women I have circled with since our founding in 1992. …
