The Art of Green Mulch

Much of my "spare" time over the next few weeks will be focused on what I want to do in my yard and garden. I am always looking for native perennials that fit into a shade garden, and ways to make my back yard look as much the way nature intended it as possible. So … Continue reading The Art of Green Mulch

A Druid’s Primer on Land Healing Part III: Understanding “Energy” and the Three Currents

Great info.

A Druid’s Primer on Land Healing Part, II: Energetic Healing vs. Palliative Care

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The Druid's Garden

In my post last week, I discussed the different ways that we might heal the land including physical land healing, healing human-land connections, and various forms of energetic healing. Today, I want to delve deeply into the aspects of energetic land healing, and further probe the difference between energetic healing work and energetic palliative care. I think this distinction is critical for how to develop rituals and how to work with the energy of the land in various ways.

To do this, I’m going to share with you a few different kinds of sites in my immediate surroundings in Western PA and look at the circumstances under which these sites might be healed. In fact, I’m picking some of the worst sites I know of physically on my present landscape here in Western PA–I figure that if we can talk about land healing at the worst kinds of sites that…

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Echinacea Pallida: Purple Cone Flower

Great Design Plant: Echinacea Pallida Healing: Echinacea is a Native American medicinal plant named for the prickly scales in its large conical seed head, which resembles the spines of an angry hedgehog (echinos is Greek for hedgehog). Native Americans may have used echinacea for more than 400 years to treat infections and wounds, and … Continue reading Echinacea Pallida: Purple Cone Flower

A Druid’s Primer on Physical and Energetic Land Healing, Part I

Wonderful Article..

The Druid's Garden

Nature’s cycles

As we are all so fully aware, our lands are increasingly under duress in ways unprecedented in recent human memory. At least here in the USA, the systematic pillaging of every resource these lands have to offer continues unabated. And within this context, many individuals have recognized a problem and have taken up spiritual paths focusing on the earth itself in various ways. The question becomes–what can I, as one person, do? As you’ve noticed, a good deal of my time in the last year of blogging (or more) has been exploring this question in various angles and details. And so, I want to share a bit today of the different angles from which we might consider the answer to this question both energetically and physically–providing a roadmap for this kind of work and specifying its dimensions. This means we are going to delve not only into physical…

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