The Pagan Grove

I began working on my meditation requirement in early October of 2013, and have continued at least twice a week up until the time of this ...

I first began my work on the Dedicant's Path in 2012, when I originally joined ADF. I had been Pagan for years or so prior to that, but...

Nerthus by ErebusOdora It's getting to be that time.  I've been working on my Dedicant Path documentation for ADF on and off for...

Mead Hall of the Grove of the Midnight Sun - just amazing, right? First, an admission - the first big Pagan event I attended was sort of...

US Fish and Wildlife Service, Public Domain I've been thinking a lot about Gatekeepers lately.  In ADF ritual, the Gatekeeper is inv...

For Midsummer, I wrote a ritual for Prairie Shadow Protogrove in a Germanic hearth culture to mirror the honoring of Sunna that we had done...

At Beltane, I attended a ritual held by the Order of the Red Grail. The ritual itself was very traditionally Wiccan, casting a circle, call...

For the spring equinox, Prairie Shadow held a Greek ritual honoring and welcoming Persephone back to the world. It was held in my living ro...

With three children and a crazy schedule, it's difficult for me to find the motivation to do daily devotionals.  But they're incre...

For Imbolc, I once again put together a ritual for Prairie Shadow Protogrove. We had a Celtic ritual honoring Brigid, held in the study sp...

Photo by Robert Herring Used under a Creative Commons License As the winter drags on here on the cold and sunlight-starved prairie, I...

Photo by Amber Doty It's taken me a little while to get around to this post, because I'm not exactly sure how to write it...

Photo by Cassi Saari.  Creative Commons license. I have always had a closeness with birch trees.  The stark white bark of many varieties...

Following up on my post W is for Web Ritual  from last year's Pagan Blog Project, I wanted to give any of you who are interested a hea...

I attended a few Yule rituals this year, but I'd like to write again about the ritual put on by Prairie Shadow Protogrove. This was on...

The Three Kindred are, in my opinion, the most essential piece of ADF Druidry.  Honoring ancestors, spirits of place, and gods and goddesse...

While stumbling about the internet today, I came across a wonderful resource for children's ritual that I had to stop by and share! ...

Yule - perhaps the most recognizable of all Pagan holidays.  In my opinion, it features the easiest celebrations to translate from secular...

I ended up attending a few more functions put on by Pagans of Nebraska, and it was there that I met fellow ADF member Amber Doty, at the ti...

A brief introduction: I am a member of Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship , a group focusing on recreating (in a modern context) many v...