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 [...]
AN ACT OF PIETY By Rev. Kirk S. Thomas A number of years ago a great deal of rain fell at the Sirius Rising and Starwood Festivals held at the Brushwood Folklore Center near Sherman, NY. In fact, so much rain fell that year that the festivals earned the nickname of “Squishwood.” That was the [...]
A Walk in the Desert….. by Kirk S. Thomas In mid-December of 2002, I had a very spiritual experience. I went to visit a Yaqui Native American named Lench, and I spent 4 days with him. Before arriving, Lench had me answer a series of questions about my life and write the answers in my [...]
I wrote this at the request of Michael Dangler, who heard me speak on the subject and who thought it would make a good article for Oak Leaves. MAKE OFFERINGS, DAMNIT! --- by Rev. Kirk Thomas Back in the bad old days, before the ADF Dedicant Program was re-written, there used to be a section [...]
This review never got published because someone else got one in before mine did! But I thought it might be fun to publish it here, anyway. A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism by John Michael Greer Published by ADF Press ISBN 0-9765681-0-1 List Price US $19.95 John Michael Greer is the Archdruid [...]
This article appeared in Oak Leaves issue no. 35 - Winter 2006 A Druidic Baptism? --- By Rev. Kirk Thomas Last May, at the Desert Magic Festival, I was privileged to receive a tarot reading from Meredith McDonald, the Chief of the Seers Guild. I have had readings from her before, using tarot, runes and [...]