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Bright Blessings on Summer Solstice

Brightest blessings for the (Northern Hemisphere) summer solstice, sometimes called Litha! I enclose here my little video blessing and contemplation for you – just something short, spontaneous, and (I hope you think) sweet! I had a great time doing it. It is really another love letter to YOU, with some of my evolving thoughts about […]

The Work of Lammas

Beloved, beloved, beloved, thrice beloved! If this is your first time getting or reading Reflections, either in your inbox or on The Way of the River site, be welcome. I also invite you (if you do Facebook) to investigate our Facebook Group for  The Way of the River. Be welcome there, and if you are […]

The Love of Lightning’s Fire

In our upcoming course (starting THIS Thursday, WOOHOO!) The Elemental Wisdom of Fire, the second class will be about two very different kinds of fire:  Lightning and the sun. This post is about my favorite of the two, lightning. When I was young, I had this strange idea—truly strange—that I would like to be struck […]

Stones Rising and Four Quarters: Part One

A memory. A memory with many words and images that will mean the most to those from Four Quarters, but that may paint a picture for others. At Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary, the high holydays are those around the raising of new Stones in the Stone Circle. I see rollers and ropes raise the Stones. […]

Lammas Surrender

From  a recent Facebook post by my dear friend and Wiccan priest, Jonathan White: At the antipodes of the year from Imbolc, at which we celebrate the claiming of power, the moment of daring to speak, to make, or to heal, is the evening of Lammas. Now we celebrate the relinquishing of power, the moment […]