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December 2021

December 20, 2021

In the Time of Darkness

Let us breathe deeply to nourish and light our candles within. Then let us share...

December 19, 2020

Wheel of the Year: Yule

Mary Ann Clark writes about Yule in her series on the Wheel of the Year....

December 19, 2020

Respite

Happy Winter Solstice and may 2021 bring healing and moments of respite to you and...

August 2020

August 10, 2020

More Engaging Online Pagan and Earth-Centered Worship

Cat Rigby from Mystic Grove CUUPS in Orlando, FL writes, "I had a few thoughts...

April 2020

April 24, 2020

A Releasing and Intention Setting for Solitaries or Groups

The power of intention-setting is that it can gently shift the energy that permeates our...

February 2020

February 03, 2020

Dreaming Imbolc – A Pathworking

This is a time of dreaming the spring to come. We begin to uncurl from...

January 2020

January 31, 2020

Rededication to Mother Earth at Candlemas

Thunberg’s comment, “We are telling you to act as if you loved your children above...

July 2019

July 11, 2019

Of Sun and Shadow – A Recentering Reading for Summer

I’m a big fan of working with the prevailing energy present in a season or...

June 2019

June 14, 2019

A New Chant for Litha: Honoring the Green Ones at Midsummer

Midsummer offers us the longest day of the year – a golden gift of sunlight...

March 2019

March 13, 2019

The Seeds of Ostara – Divination and Manifestation

The dreaming Earth begins to stir from sleep, to turn Her face toward the sunlight...

February 2019

February 02, 2019

A New Chant for Imbolc

As a celebration whose purpose it is to awaken new life out of the darkness...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

Musical Invocation for the New Year

This month I composed a musical invocation of the directions that’s appropriate for the beginning...

December 2018

December 21, 2018

Guided Meditation for Yule

The long night gives birth to the Sunchild. We watch for the coming of dawn...

December 20, 2018

Winter Solstice

“Whatever took care of me before I was born will take care of me after...

December 17, 2018

Sentinels of a Midwinter Night

White confetti falls on countless branches shaping them with winter's confections. All sleep, save the...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

Light In The Beginning

Several years ago, I went looking for stories for the winter solstice that celebrate darkness,...

November 13, 2018

Reading the Orphic Hymns

I love that these deities are presented in all this troubling complexity. Given the troubling...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

A Working In Florida

The work does not end once we say “And, as I will it, so mote...

January 2018

January 01, 2018

Toll for the Old Year, Ring in the New

We are the heart and lungs, we are the eyeballs, throat, ears and even the...

September 2017

September 15, 2017

Lighting the Chalice and Turning the Wheel

I found the ceremony of putting a single flame into a bowl to mark the...

September 01, 2017

Meditation to the Oak King and Holly King

As we approach the Equinox, the point of balance, it might be a good time...

August 2017

August 16, 2017

A Prayer For Those Affected by the Violence of Charlottesville

Let us grieve today, and let us dare to whisper gently of hope, even in...

June 2017

June 08, 2017

A Meditation

Today we share a sample meditation from an early issue of Pagan NUUS, the CUUPS...

March 2017

March 14, 2017

Beginning Ancestor Meditation

Looking at the world around me, I am bombarded with news of ways that human...

March 09, 2017

Of Gods and Men

There is more beauty In the Dawn and the Dusk Than in all the works...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Cycles and Oppression

More of my companions are deeply engaged than I’ve seen in decades. More actual work...

February 20, 2017

Introducing Sacred Flexibility to the Hymn Sandwich

I’ve noticed that ... the Protestant-style “hymn sandwich” that UUs have inherited from our Puritan...

February 15, 2017

We Swim in the Depths

Diving and scanning, into the depths and swimming around. Who are we as UU-Pagans and...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

What We Love Can Be Saved

The following ritual is for social justice warriors AND for people of conscience who have...

January 13, 2017

Frost and Stone: Grounding Energy in Winter's Dark

Alison Leigh Lilly decides it's time for an Imbolc ritual, "The whole world seems to...

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