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June 2019

June 17, 2019

Druid in the City: Engaging With It

For me, Paganism is about connecting to something greater than our mortal lives. You don’t...

May 2019

May 25, 2019

Druid in the City: Subtle Spirituality

Here in Seoul secular and religious activities overlap. In the Jogyesa temple this morning, even...

May 05, 2019

Druid in the City: What You Watch; What You Think

Consider this before you watch that next video or scroll through your news feed: ask...

April 2019

April 22, 2019

The Purple Spiral Turns: A Druid UU Speaks of Compassion

When we become mindful of the suffering of nature from poisonous toxins, we can use...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

The Corner Crone: All Shook Up

And now, on the other side of Imbolc, these seeds of change that have been...

June 2017

June 12, 2017

The Other Side of the Hedge: Practical Idolatry

Idolatry has been the straw man of the West for two millennia. Monotheists hate it....

May 2017

May 24, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: A Mystics Perception of Subjective Reality

A mystic recognizes that each of us adds a 2nd story on top of objective...

March 2017

March 15, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: Sovereignty at The Center of the Labyrinth

Sovereignty is rightly held by the just, make the land their kin, What kind of...

March 01, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: Your Story and the Storyteller

There are secrets of the mind that each individual can only find if one is...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Lamp & Labyrinth: The Ego Hides

The best mystics say proudly, “I’m not better than anybody else,” while the worst say,...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: What is a lamp? A Labyrinth?

Since the show Westworld stole my main analogy for mysticism, I thought I'd share the...

August 2016

August 17, 2016

Lamp & Labyrinth: Reciprocity, Tit for Tat, and Vending Machine Religion

In my paganism and my personal practice, reciprocity is of utmost importance in thought and...

August 03, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Saying Goodbye

The Rev. Melissa Hill says goodbye and reflects on her journey to becoming a writer...

July 2016

July 06, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: When You Get Your Ass Kicked for Being a Priest

See into the process of dealing with reactions to sharing spiritwork publicly as Melissa Hill...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Toad Blessings

What do grave robbing, gardening, and the painful change that the Tower card encapsulates all...

April 2016

April 06, 2016

Dandelion Seeds: Why We All Need Indigenous European Paganism

The Rev. Melissa Hill tackles issues of white privilege and the fear that modern European...

April 04, 2016

Seeking the Grail: Why Bother?

There's nothing like a ritual where there's genuine connection, where there's a palpable love between...

October 2015

October 22, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: The Three Kindreds and My Polytheist Theology

In modern Druidry we often speak of the Kindreds: the Ancestors, the Nature Spirits, and...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

The Lady’s Quill: Queer and Trans Identities and Pagan Mythology

Trying to shoehorn figures from our mythologies into modern concepts of identity can be harmful...

December 2014

December 12, 2014

The Zen Pagan: Contemplative Druidry by James Nichol (Book Review)

Nichol came to be interested in a more contemplative approach to his Druidry after a...

July 2014

July 02, 2014

Druid Thoughts: Druid or Pagan?

I’m all too aware that if I put material out under the ‘Druid’ label, I’m...

April 2014

April 02, 2014

Druid Thoughts: What Makes a Family?

The ideal is a family or tribe held together by bonds of love, respect and...

March 2014

March 05, 2014

Druid Thoughts: Pagan Tea Time

Slowed down, face to face, real time with no agenda, communications between people are a...

February 2014

February 05, 2014

Druid Thoughts: Druidry and Meditation

Meditation need not be stationary, and it need not be tedious, either! It can be...

December 2013

December 25, 2013

Druid Thoughts: Paganism, Druidry and Religion

Most Pagans do not come along seeking to look like they belong to a religion....

October 2013

October 24, 2013

Loop of Brighid: The Cauldrons of Inspiration

A God Who Makes Fire: The Bardic Mysticism of Amergin includes a new translation of...

October 02, 2013

Druid Thoughts: Moon Books Insights

News from Moon Books including a review of Robin Herne's excellent new fiction collection (contains...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Druid Thoughts: Beauty in Tears

I’m interested in the capacity of pain to open us up, breaking the protective prisons...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Druid Thoughts: Monarchy and the Druid

We have a new heir to the throne of England. What would happen if our...

July 24, 2013

Druid Thoughts: Seeking the Mystery (Review)

I love books and teachers that give me frameworks to hang my own ideas from,...