In the traditions of a number of European spiritual practices, the Winter Solstice and the beginning of the festival of Yule mark the moment of transition of power from the Holly King to the Oak King – the nadir of the period of darkness in the northern hemisphere and end of the waning of Gaia’s […]
It was during a walk near Radley Lakes with my friends Jo and Chris that I first suddenly took notice of the isolated curious brown stalks with the odd curling bits all around their tops. We had been stooping our way through what was once a water meadow but of more recent use as a […]
For the whole of the recorded history of our species – and quite likely much longer than that – humans have looked to the plant kingdom for relief from their pains, illnesses, and injuries, insight into their metaphysical conundrums, and inspiration for their reveries. Leaving the latter two of these categories aside for the present […]