I have been the grove mentor for this Protogrove in Alamorgordo since it's inception in 2003. I have made numerous visits, at first to lead rituals, and then to attend them in support of the Grove Organizer, Polarity. In 2004 I had the honor to officiate at her wedding. It was held at the [...]
In the summer of 2006, I traveled to the UK to attend a two-week intensive course in the Welsh language at the University of Wales, Lampeter. On the way, I stopped in to meet the folks of Hollow Hills Protogrove in Farnborough, Hampshire, near London. We had a lovely time, and I got to [...]
In San Diego, CA there is a group of ADF members who were very interested in forming an ADF Protogrove. One day they announced that they would be having an open public rite in celebration of Samhain. This would be a sort of trial run before they had been members of ADF for six months [...]
Strong Meter and Strong Rhyme: Excerpt from The Raven by E.A. Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at [...]
Prose: Selection from Skaldskaparmal in the Prose Edda But Skadi, daughter of giant Thiassi, took helmet and mail-coat and all weapons of war and went to Asgard to avenge her father. But the Aesir offered her atonement and compensation, the first item of which was that she was to choose [...]
Complex Thought with Complex Meter: Selection from Hamlet by W. Shakespeare O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working [...]
The Children of Earth call out to the Gods and Goddesses of all our peoples! We call to You in the Heavens, shining in the skies! We call to You in the Midworld, striding across the land! We call to You in the Underworld, guiding and guarding our Dead. Shining Ones, come to us, we [...]
The Children of Earth call out to all those Spirits who share this world with us. We call to the Spirits of Motion – You who crawl, who run, who swim, who fly. We call to the Spirits of Place – You trees, You rock, You plants. We call to the Spirits under the Mound [...]
The Children of Earth call out to our human kin who came before. We call to our Ancestors of blood – Without you, we would not be here. You are our parents and grandparents, from all generations. We call to our Ancestors of heart – you whom we have loved and lost, and whom [...]
This article details some healing work I did for a friend with cancer. Magical Healing – A personal Journey by Rev. Kirk S. Thomas In our quest for perfect rituals for all the High Days, it sometimes feels like magic is the unnoticed step-child, left standing in the corner, unwanted and unloved. Unlike many other forms of [...]