August has landed here in Missouri and the afternoons are three digits, summertime hot. But this day is almost ended and I sit on my back porch with a tall glass of ice water. Cicada song surrounds me. Cicada Choir May you have cicada songMay it last all summer longOn through dusk and straight through …
I have always known that I would someday write a book. I just didn’t know what it would be about. Well, I have finally figured that out and hope to start working on it in earnest this coming Winter, when my insane touring schedule slows down. A Bardic Circle The book’s title and direction have …
I’ve been writing songs (or, more accurately, making up songs and sometimes writing them down) for most of my life, and for me there are three types of song. There are those which arrive suddenly and completely, almost like receiving dictation, and those are the ones I trust the most. There are others which form …
Have you ever been in a place where you just aren’t getting the answers you need from your tarot or oracle cards? Have your Runes stopped speaking to you in a meaningful way? Have the crystals been humming too loudly or are your palms refusing to provide the answers to what you seek? Perhaps, under …
While the Northern Hemisphere revels in summer’s abundance of warmth, colour and growth, winter has firmly settled across the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. The air is crisp, the nights are long and cold, and frost gathers like silver lace upon the branches of sleeping trees. As nature slows and turns inward, we too look …
Anyone who has hung around with me for even a moment knows that I constantly talk about how Music and Magic travel together. From my own experience, I’ve discovered paths of joy, healing, and peace, insights into the deeper ways of the Elements, and connections with every phase of Life. Music has provided ways to …
E Pluribus Unum: Keeping World Connection While Holding Magical Independence How exactly does that work? How, as magic practitioners and energy workers, do we hold true to ourselves and still stay connected to the Oneness that binds us all? It is a theory of this author-bard that starts with the understanding of the connection between …
Spiral Rhythm is a pagan band with 3 decades of history. Its growth mimics its name. In the 30 years of ritual, bonfire drumming, performing and recording, its spiral has expanded and reached out. We’ve created and shared in countless chants and rhythms, and still strive to connect to the divine through music. Rung 3 …
The Goddess blesses us in many ways, bestowing Magic and Spirit as we construct ritual, ceremony, song and craft through our various devotions. So we end up with a cauldron full of Magical “stuff”- herbal packets, tokens crafted from collage, straw figures, copies of spells and invocations. There are a great many lovely and meaningful …
Pagan music is communal. It is meant to be sung in circles, chanted around fires, drummed beneath the stars, whispered as prayer, offered as spellwork, and shared from one heart to another.
