The Druid Year, Solstice/Equinox/Cross-Quarter Day Impulses, 15 moons, and Sacred Alphabet Twenty years ago, when I began my Celtic path, my inner druid guides suggested I make flower essences for all the sacred trees over the cycle of one year. And it was good advice, for I could feel the spirit of each tree through its particular 24-day moon, all 15 of them. And I was also guided to do simple ceremonies for the eight equinox/solstice and cross-quarter high holy days of the druid year. As the year went along, it was easy to feel the portals of spirit these days truly are. I was guided to draw the Ogham…

  that was the day we ate the fat fable. grandmother stuffed it with chopped leeks & herbs. made it savory with the usual platitudes. a thick rich moral gravy. later she told us the tale of our father as a little boy on the stone steps in albany. wrestling with angels. we always loved that one. laughter & tears. she could always spin a stirring story. once while walking she pointed to a house & told us of the family that had lived there. “they won the daily lotto,” she said. “millions of dollars. how far they fell.” the wheel of fortune. from heaven to hell.   *** About…

Adding a Spindle to the Wheel of the Year As I wrote this, I was finishing up work for the day to head home to get ready to celebrate my 5th wedding anniversary with a quiet dinner at one of our favourite fancy restaurants. Though my husband is not pagan, we did a handfasting with cords of orange, brown, green, and silver in a beautiful loft space gallery that used to be a piano factory. It was an overcast day that rained on and off, and we didn’t care, as long as we had each other and were surrounded by our friends and family. We bound ourselves to one another,…