Our ancestors followed the cycles of the Sun as a guide to sow, nurture, and harvest plants for food. Archaeology shows European hunter-gatherers in the Middle East growing wild grains 12,000 years ago, whereas in China they were harvesting wild rice at that time, and began domesticating rice 2,000 years later. Mesoamericans began domesticating squash …
I’ve published my first book! It has 25 poems and 25 short stories. I’m very excited. It’s called Bone Listener, named after the capstone story in the collection. Oh, I do hope you’ll buy a copy of the paperback or the ebook. Here on Pagan Song, you know me as a songwriter. I’ve been writing …
The ancient first harvest festival celebration of Lughnasadh on the 1st of August, marks the turning of the wheel of the year towards autumn and the darker quarter of the year. It is this glorious period where I celebrate the fruits and mystery of nature, a time we give thanks for the bounty of the …
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 …
