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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…
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…
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 