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A Little Spring Ritual
Spring is here. The time between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice is my favourite time of year. There is so much change and life seems to be literally pushing itself back into existence after...
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Thinking About – Light and Shadow
I have been blissfully unaware of a little tension within an area of the Pagan community. I have seen over the years the occasionally derisive use of the term fluffy bunny to describe some Pagans, but...
View ArticleDruidCast – A Druid Podcast Episode 110
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 110 Cascade – Afro Celt Sound System – http://www.afroceltsoundsystem.com The Spiritual Journey – Vivianne Crowley – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivianne_Crowley Maid,...
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Tales from the Road – 10 Year Return
I had my first overseas concert in 2006. It was at an intimate Pagan festival in Alabama, organised by a group based in Georgia, and it really was a week that changed my life. I had two albums out at...
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Tales from the Road – Caldera Fest 2016
About a year ago I got a PM on Facebook from the podcaster David Banach who runs the Magick Jukebox podcast. He’d had an idea. To bring together as many of the Pagan musicians he features on his...
View ArticleDruidCast – A Druid Podcast Episode 111 – CalderaFest Special
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 111 Gaia Lives – Ginger Doss – http://www.gingerdoss.com Colour of the Wind – Brian Henke – http://www.brianhenkeguitarist.com How can we believe that we own it all –...
View ArticleThe ‘End times’? What? Really? Again?
There’s a lot of noise at the moment. It can be hard to hear the Voice of Nature amongst all of the shouting voices. As I read the news this morning I was informed about all of the ‘uncertainty’ in the...
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Y Mabinogi – Just Listen!
In May Cerri and I went on a working holiday to Wales and immersed ourselves in the land from which the tales of the Mabinogion grew. I wrote about the trip in a couple of blog posts just after: Here...
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Y Mabinogi – A Story of Invocation
I was at an OBOD camp back in 1997. It was a Samhain camp and the evening was cold, crisp and the sky was clear. The camp was on a farm far away from the big towns of the South West so the stars shone...
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Y Mabinogi – Annwn
It’s time to turn my gaze towards the Otherworld. The subject of the next song in Y Mabinogi is Annwn. Pwyll steps through the portal into that Otherworld, in the guise of Arawn, a King of that land....
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Spells and Charms
It was the Anderida Gorsedd camp this past weekend. Me and Cerri started the camps back in 2003 and our intent was to create space that focussed on magic and community. There were a lot of camps that...
View ArticleDruidCast – A Druid Podcast Episode 114
Shownotes for DruidCast 114 Wild Man – Kacey Stephensen – https://www.facebook.com/KcGuyMusic or events https://www.facebook.com/events/1818623298419767/ The Harp of Death – Omnia –...
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Good News for the Rainforest
In June I played a concert at the first CalderaFest Pagan music festival in Lafayette, Georgia. 29 bands over the course of three days and it was absolutely amazing. If you want to hear what happened I...
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And the Wheel Forever Turns
Close the door keep out the storm, Far Away, Far Away… It’s nearly here. In two weeks time the major Sabbat of Samhain will arrive, bringing with it dark evenings and opening the door to the cold of...
View ArticleDruidCast – A Druid Podcast Episode 115
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 115 Raido – Wardruna – http://www.wardruna.com Mount Haemus Lecture – Julia Farley –...
View ArticleStillness. And the Night of Misrule.
Although our house it still full of builders I can feel Autumn’s blessed peace approaching. I have two more gigs this year, Witchfest International at the Brighton Centre in November, and Tenbury...
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The Pagan Community – A Survivors Guide
So you’ve found this wonderful thing called Paganism. You might be called to explore a particular path, be that Wicca, Witchcraft, Asatru, Druidry or Shamanism, or you might just want to go with the...
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Thinking About – Celebrancy
As a movement grows and matures it seeks to firm the foundations of its community, and one of the ways it can achieve this is by re-introducing lost rites of passage, and reclaiming those that have...
View ArticleDruidCast – A Druid Podcast Episode 120
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 120 Heron Valley (Daughter Song) – Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillier – http://www.seventhwavemusic.co.uk The Life of Iolo Morganwg – Kristoffer Hughes –...
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Spring. It’s here. Honest Guv.
Spring. It’s here. Honest. The Equinox is just a few minutes away. I’ve always thought of the Solstices and Equinoxes as the beginning of the seasons, with the Fire Festivals being the height. So to me...
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