Songs That Save Our Lives Do you know those times when your heart is breaking, and then you hear a piece of music, and you feel your life has been saved? You were drowning, and then this melody, harmonic progression, lyrical phrasing, lifts you up and out, creates space around you where the crushing water …
Just last week, on Winter Solstice Eve, I started mixing my next album. This was the perfect time to start a new project that would take me from 2020 and lockdown to the end of one busy, magical year and into the next…. Now let me just start by saying that I have written a …
From the bright colours of the Autumnal Equinox to the tiny budding green of Imbolc, this is my favourite turning of Life’s Wheel. It is the time when most of our spiritual celebrations are set into days that are filled with change and chaos by Nature. The Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere marks the …
Greetings to all this merry Yule! So good to have you with us. This looks like a fascinating season for astrology this winter! Let’s dive in. The Sun slips into Capricorn December 21, 8:27:20 PM, MST this year. All the planets are within ½ the circle! Mostly bunched up in Capricorn (3) and Taurus (3). …
Our new album, Thinkin’ of You, has been a labor of love. Spiral Rhythm is excited to share our new music and celebrate spirit with song. We supported each other creating an album through a pandemic and the loss of our dear bandmate PJ Seale. We have grown with learning, creativity, and experimentation. We have …
I have finished my Thanksgiving dinner with family and am now in the long process of making enough turkey soup to last a long time. I make very good turkey soup…. The 22nd annual Woodchopper’s Ball benefit for the Homeless is done for this year, I’m off the road till Spring 2024 and only have …
I do not celebrate Thanksgiving, I haven’t in over a decade. It simply is a fact. I don’t mind if everyone else does. I won’t hurl your turkey through the air, or dump your gravy boat. I just don’t celebrate it. What I do celebrate is Friendsgiving. I imagine a good sized handful of y’all …
I spent my first years in the Pagan musical community hiding from my fellow musicians every time they asked for folks to sing, play or otherwise contribute to something that they were working on. Why? My reasons might be different from others, but what it came down to was imposter syndrome and my belief that …
Like so many of my “born again pagan” friends, I was raised in the Christian church. Very early on, I realized that I needed a place to put my spirituality, and church was the only place I knew. I became very involved, attending on Wednesday evenings and Sundays to sing in the youth choir and …
A powerful temporal landmark within the wheel of the year, there is magic and transformation in ‘The Fall’. Of course there is, we all feel it! Samhain/Soween/Calan Gaeaf is the third and final of the three pagan harvest festivals, a time when our ancestors would have harvested and prepared a variety of foods and essentials …
