Recently, I have had to make very difficult, very personal decisions regarding two trees that I have a very close connection to ( Read more... )

When I awoke on Saturday morning at dawn, I took a set of omens. They were as follows:

• Ancestors -
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As I stood, preparing to give praise to the powers that have guarded and guided me since joining ADF, I did some math.

This ritual, the ritual completing the final requirement for ADF's Clergy Training Program, marked the end of nine years of training within ADF: a good Druidic number that you might think I had picked on purpose ( Read more... )

You know, in many ways, the initiation I went through changed the game I was playing, deepening it and setting new rules. I like to talk about Huizinga's notion of Homo Ludens as vastly superior to Eliade's Homo Religiosis, but I find myself encountering Huizinga's theories on a very real and intimate level in my life ( Read more... )

Holy crap. I just located a copy of an article by Anne Ross called "Esus Et Les Trios <>" in Études Celtique 1960. . . Yes, that's "Esus and the Three Cranes." Not only does it contain a photo of the other side of the Esus relief at Trier, but it also includes another set of reliefs and pieces that she thinks are relevant ( Read more... )

There is something odd about this List of Entities that I stumbled upon. Perhaps it is the inclusion of Harpo Marx, Discordian Saint Second Class, as an entity. Usually, this would be good, except that I can't really stand lists like this, nor can I abide the great Saint Harpo being listed with (and I quote):

Gurid - an angel of the summer equinox ( Read more... )

I've been working on further developing my connection with our Grove's namesake, Trigaranus (aka "Three Cranes", who we usually refer to in the singular as "Garanus" or "Crane"), within my own mind. If these 6th night rituals work out for the Grove, we'll talk about developing this a tad further as a Grove, too ( Read more... )

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Last night, while listening to some drumming CD's, I started free-writing about Esus and the Three Cranes. I came up with the following random bit of sketching:

Three Cranes

Garanus
Trigaranus
Esus

Furious One
Passionate One¹
The Bull
Tarvos

The Willow

The Bill-Hook

The Pruning

¹ - From Chris Gwinn's derivation from PIE *eis-, which ( Read more... )

So there's this poem I've been working on. Its initial lines were typed in on Dec. 11, 2001, though it may be a few months older. It very much follows a certain. . . shall we say. . . lack of meter ( Read more... )