Prayer to the Snow in January

It is January, the dark time is shifting slowly towards the light, but we are still dreaming in darkness. In the deep realms of Creation, the Sun struggles in his epic battles with the Lord of the Dead.

After all, in order for there to be a hero in the sacred story, the tension between Inner and Outer, Dark and Light, and Cold and Heat must play out.

On the surface, that means that the land longs to rest. It needs its long Winter sleep, in order to prepare for its awakening in Spring. We have prayed for this, both in our Harvest Ceremony last October, and in our daily longing for balanced weather. So, let’s give thanks.

Is the Weather getting your attention? Looking at weather extremes as a "climate crisis" is one way to consider it. The connection with the Weather in the true, ancient way of living tradition can also provide real solutions to the issue of weather extremes, which may be a crisis...or it may be communication.

What is a mountain? Perhaps it is a sheltering giant, looking down over our village with a presence that we can feel all the time. The mountain has a say in how the wind blows, how the sun angles down to touch the little houses and fields of the human beings beneath it.

Cultivating everlasting human ways

What is a mountain? Perhaps it is a sheltering giant, looking down over our village with a presence that we can feel all the time. The mountain has a say in how the wind blows, how the sun angles down to touch the little houses and fields of the human beings beneath it.