Rooted Diversity: Honoring the Land-Based Cultures That Shaped Us
We celebrate diversity across the globe—but often forget the small towns, villages, and ancestral lands where it all began. This p [...]
October 2025
🐾 Honoring Our Animal Beloved Dead at Samhain
How to include your furry family in ancestor season rituals + folklore on pets as psychopomps. We lost our kitten, Olive, t [...]
September 2025
You Can’t Appropriate Your Own Ancestral Culture
A reflection on reclamation, grief, and remembering our way home. You can't appropriate your ancestral culture. Let that land. Th [...]
The Importance of Ritual in Modern Life
For millennia, ritual has been the container through which we mark change — a way to embody transitions so we don’t have to carry them alone. But in modern life, many of these rituals have been lost, silenced, or left behind.
June 2025
L’Acqua di San Giovanni: A Midsummer Blessing from the Old Ways
L'Acqua di San Giovanni Every year, on the eve of June 23rd, as twilight kisses the longest days of the year, Italians across t [...]
April 2025
Autism as Ancestral Inheritance: A Sacred Reframe Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month)
A sacred reframe of neurodivergence through story, struggle, and old-world wisdom. What if autism isn’t a modern diagnosis but an [...]
March 2025
Dísablót: Honoring the Ancient Feminine Powers
Artwork by Roberto Campus Dísablót, an ancient Norse ritual, was held to honor the Dísir—female spirits or deities associated [...]
February 2025
Parentalia & the Weight of Inheritance: Reverence, Reckoning, & Repair (+Almond Honey Cakes)
Tomba dei giganti, Passcaredda, Sardinia We are the ancestors returned. The ones they dreamed into being. The ones who carry th [...]
January 2025
Imbolc & The Pagan Roots of Groundhog Day
Discover the deep roots of Imbolc and Groundhog Day—how our ancestors read the land’s signs, honored hibernating animals, and wel [...]
A Heart in the Highlands: Celebrating Robert Burns & the Voices of Our Ancestors
Me and Robert Burns at the Birks O' Aberfeldy in 2014 Robert Burns, Scotland’s cultural ancestor, championed the common people, [...]
