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 …
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.
Here we are sitting at the very tippy top of summer, held there like a giant swing about to be plunged back into the liquid heat that is Arkansas from June to September. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of reasons to be super excited. Watermelons from Cave City in just a bit, we …
Uzume: Stripper Goddess and Sacred Clown Once upon a time, the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu had a fight with her brother. I don’t remember exactly what the fight was about, probably one of those sibling conflicts that feels monumental at the time, and in retrospect is revealed to be a mere trifling. But at the …
I’m often asked about my inspiration for the songs I write, and very often there is no easy answer. May Morning is different. But to fully explain what happened we have to go back a bit further, to the start of my own pagan journey and apprenticeship. How It Started I was asked, back in …
Springtime has revealed itself in all its glory here in Wisconsin. The robin, our state bird, has returned. Magnolias are now in bloom and their soft, sweet cream fragrance fills the air. Early morning sunshine pours in through our yards to spark life within the greening grass, as well as through our kitchen windows to …
Out of the corner of your eye, whispers in the shadows of moonlit misty fields and meadows, in the hazy light of our dreams, sunlight on rain bedazzled spider webs in the garden … The unseen world of the Fae – the Land of the Sidhe – is all around us, within us, an ancient …
