Category: Ancestors
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Honouring Papa Joe Davis – Southern Root Worker & Vodou Priest
On the 1st of February 2023, in Raleigh, North Carolina USA, after some illness Papa Joe Davis passed to the other realms. I came to know of this man through my partner Artist, Ismaila Putuenchi in Foumban Cameroon, they had become good friends, for over 20 years and we spoke…
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Amaterasu Omikami
Ancient serpent, Goddess of fire, Fullness, dreaming tracks, forward moving. Compassion, love and transformation, You are deeply in me fanning my fires. Seeing that things change for the best, You burn and singe and destroy. Yet you give life and renewal once again, Your flames surround me. I fall into their…
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Viridis Lux Mundi
The Green Fire “Remember the Love. Green fire is the sign of the new body our love engenders in a bed of dawn. Green fire licks all pride from the skull soaks each trembling cell with heaven” ~ Rumi “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce…
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Fridstool
I am invisible, Falling through the cracks. I hold on, then let go, Forgotten, alone, a memory. Homelessness sharing its sting, My steady moral compass wavers. And in this darkness, A small crack of light appears. Touching my faith, Shines on my being. For just a moment, I rest on…
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The Descent into Autumn
As we stand at the entrance to the West gate, opposite the place of the rising sun that gave us light for the last 6 months we now turn to the deep waters of the changing time, our shedding complete, we stand bare, sunset, dusk, autumn, harvests end, as the…
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Ancestral Realms
“Lang may yer lum reek” This Scottish saying becomes “Long may your chimney smoke” meaning ‘May you live long and keep well’.
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The Wattle King!
As the wheel turns….The beautiful Sun Lord, the Wattle King returns to the bush…the waxing forces are emerging on the land early this year…as the quickening has started, the sap is stirring….as we tread the compass towards Candlemass….the Wassail Bowl now empty, we are turning from the dark tide, celebrating…