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2015-03-24T06:09:00-04:00

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Freedom in Failure

Last updated on: March 24, 2015 at 6:09 am By Melissa Hill

For many years now I have done my annual offering ritual. I do it after Yule, before the snow has left the land. It has evolved over the years, the timing becoming more specific. It’s almost always after Imbolc when the sun has begun to feel warm. I do it during the day, when the sun is high. It’s become more than just the offering now that I have a permanent sacred area outdoors. It’s now the waking of the... Read more

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2015-03-20T09:49:00-04:00

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Ostara Freebies!

Last updated on: March 20, 2015 at 9:49 am By Melissa Hill

For Ostara I decided to do a coloring page of Frigg, the wife of Odin and the All-Mother. It’s based on a piece I did for a friend in an art swap earlier in the year. To get a print resolution image, click here. I also wrote a simple chant for my grove’s Ostara rite this weekend. I know it’s hard to find good simple spring chants. I know this because I tried to find one. We are going to... Read more

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2015-03-17T11:19:00-04:00

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What’s in a Name? The Power of Defining Meditation

Last updated on: March 17, 2015 at 11:19 am By Melissa Hill

Before we even begin to talk about meditation first we have to figure out what exactly that means. Meditation defined: “The act or process of spending time in quiet thought : the act or process of meditating “ from the online Merriam-Webster dictionary. That’s a horrible definition. It’s circular in the first place, defining the word with the word by changing the ending. It’s also entirely missing the point. There are lots of ways to spend time in quiet thought.... Read more

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2015-03-12T11:39:00-04:00

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Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire

Last updated on: March 12, 2015 at 11:39 am By Melissa Hill

The smell of pine and juniper hangs in the air and my hands are covered in a fine dust of sacred powder. The resins I collected from the balsam fir trees last spring have dried for a year and so I grind them to powder in my trusty olive-colored Oster blender. Each different powder goes into its own container this year. This is the year I will attempt to make my process repeatable and measurable. Science, art, and spirituality are... Read more

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2017-04-22T12:53:24-04:00

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Seven ways to live closer to the Earth

Last updated on: April 22, 2017 at 12:53 pm By Melissa Hill

Seven ways to simplify your life and live closer to the earth. Read more

2018-03-12T09:25:40-04:00

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Weaving a Tug of War Tradition of Spring

Last updated on: March 12, 2018 at 9:25 am By Melissa Hill

A Spring Equinox story and traditions inspired by the Baltic tribes of Northeastern Europe. This is a weaving together of a number of folk customs and tales to be used as part of a spring celebration. Read more

2015-03-03T05:45:00-04:00

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The Priest Path: What is this need to speak of dreams?

Last updated on: March 3, 2015 at 5:45 am By Melissa Hill

My friends and companions of a scientific bent mock the religiously minded as simple fools too caught up in their own emotional connection to tradition to see the logical truth as laid and caught by carefully constructed experimental designs. Those who live within a realm of story told and synchronicity found sneer at the failure of those traps to catch their understanding. I am pulled to find a connection between the waking world and the worlds that resonate and move... Read more

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2015-02-27T11:59:00-04:00

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Finding the Tribe of the Outsiders: Black and White

Last updated on: February 27, 2015 at 11:59 am By Melissa Hill

Years ago I was given a vision. Sometimes, when I’m in a trance state I go deep to places that are not me. My inner sight shows me things I do not always understand and I am presented with mysteries that echo through my life. These are the threads of image and form that bind and separate my ideas, guiding me. I consider these visions to be gifts from the Gods. Often they are deceptively simple. In this case, I... Read more

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2015-02-23T10:09:00-04:00

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The Tribe of the Outsiders

Last updated on: February 23, 2015 at 10:09 am By Melissa Hill

I have spent some time reading about the race issues at the rather infamous Pantheacon. I’ve never been there. I’ve heard a lot about how important stuff gets discussed there. How the pagan panels and deep discussions forge the future for paganism. On reflecting upon my own experience at Convocation I wondered why I didn’t really feel that kind of energy there. I wondered if we needed to make a space for “Persons of Color” or POC (which is... Read more

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2015-02-13T13:01:00-04:00

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Earth Mother Kickassery: A Tale of Hannahannas

Last updated on: February 13, 2015 at 1:01 pm By Melissa Hill

So I’m going to let you all in on a little secret. I’m working on a book about the Earth Mother. This is an excerpt. Enjoy! The Hittites are old: like Bible old. Their empire was concurrent with the Assyrian Empire. They were forerunners of the Iron Age during the Bronze Age. Their chariot tech impressed the Egyptians and they sacked Babylon. These people were around almost 4,000 years ago. This means that when we talk about the Hittite Earth... Read more

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