Have you ever been tantalized by the prospect of marrying the magical with the mundane…..? A prospect that always seems just within reach…….yet somehow always eludes you? Have you ever tried to establish a regular practice, and experienced mixed results? Have your efforts to channel your connection to spirit only ended up channeling your own…
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Summer Solstice
How many Chambers in the Hive? And……. How many Needles on the Pine? …
Ritual to Weave the Memory of the Earth – Rites of Spring 40!
I am excited to be leading a ritual at the Earthspirit comminity’s Rites of Spring festival, which is celebrating its 40th year this May! A Ritual to Weave the Memory of the Earth In this ritual, each participant will be invited to share a short personal reflection, poem or prose piece as an offering to the…
Beltaine Ritual -Sat Apr 28th-
At Beltaine, we come together, in order to draw strength from beauty…….. connecting to the visions that inspire us……..so that those visions may spur us onward…….and fuel our growth. In this outdoor, ecstatic ritual, we will collect flowers from the garden, and charge them in the heat of the growing sun, making a Flower Essence…
Spring Equinox Ritual
We celebrate the arrival of Spring with a traditional blessing of the fields, inspired by the medieval Æcerbot text. We commune with the Soil, which is the matrix of fertility. We find grounding within the Clay and Compost, allowing them to anchor us, as we pass through the many cycles of spiritual change and evolution…
Holda Spinning Chant
This is a chant that came to me during my Solstice Meditation this year. It is in honor of Holda, the Lady of Weaving, whose color is gold, and who leads the procession of the mighty dead during the Winter Nights. She dispenses blessings, punishements, and visionary experiences. We can look for her imprints in…
Ritual of Connection to the Spirits of the Land
Sun Apr 30th In the spring we gather to weave a web of life through the garden. A web of connection between the domestic and the wild, between the mundane and the divine. Mimicking nature in patterns of medicinal transplants……..then giving back to this source inspiration, by planting gifts of life force to enhance the…
Desire
Desire precedes awareness, bubbling up from the blood. It works the hidden wires, in disguise, it rhymes with silence. seducing the purpose, in search of nuance, entice it to the surface by hints imply the rich illusions that loosen the ties just enough of the mind untouched by judgment to fuel the flood of will…
Spring Rite of Passion, hosted by Bensozia’s Garden
Spring Rite of Passion hosted by Bensozia’s Garden Apr 1st West Philadelphia In this ritual, we will craft the shape of desire, to create the salve of embodied passion. Bensozia’s Garden is a series of ritual-workshops that aims to integrate practical herbal techniques…
making it in the real world
the dream that only yesterday spoke to you in shades ephemeral….. the dream that carried you away. and you were rising… in a vortex on coils of a snake, through holes of cloudlike doors you flew inside you walked on paths of light that same dream suddenly appears to you again the next morning, gently…
Shaping desire and embracing passion, with the fructifying power of besswax.
Imagine the force of a million flowers opening…… The force of a million tiny green fruits Beginning to swell with sweetness Then developing ripe Evolving before your eyes Then, pick up a tiny piece of beeswax. And marvel that this is the force that you hold in the palm of your hand. Bees are…
What does the name “Bensozia’s Garden” mean?
Bensozia was one of the medieval appellations for the Goddess who led the “good women” as they journeyed through the night. The name contains the latin root “socius” as in “social”, “society” etc, and…
Bensozia's Garden 