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  • Home: Earth Sanctuaries
  • Pilgrimage Stories
  • Garden Sanctuaries
  • Seasonal Celebrations
  • Natural CommunitiesThis section honors our native plants and animals and the diverse and beautiful habitats in which they live. It includes an article on Drawing the Natural Gardens of North Carolina and selected illustrations of mountain, piedmont, and coastal plain habitats. I hope these drawings of the sacred natural communities where I live will inspire you to savor the wild lands where you live and help to conserve them.
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Seasonal Celebrations

These posts describe both personal seasonal rituals and community-wide Earth-based ceremonies that honor our relationship to nature and spirit throughout the wheel of the year. Perhaps you will gain ideas for creating or participating in some seasonal celebrations of your own, large or small.

Spirit-and-Nature seasonal celebrations are inspired by Celtic myth and legend. They share consciousness of the continuity of Earth and Spirit with worldwide indigenous/animist cultures. In them we aspire to bring to the community an opportunity to share our loving relationship with spirit and nature through live music, crafts, circle dances, song, story, ritual, and ceremony which honors both the ecology of this our sacred Place and the presence of Spirit at these potent times. Western culture is doing its best to split nature from people and nature from spirit. We, as elders, feel the responsibility to try to hold nature/human/spirit together in Love as an act of joyous resistance. Past events are included as an archive of posts dated on or near the day they were presented.

Samhain 2012 Reflections
31 Oct 2012

Samhain 2012 Reflections

by Betty Lou Chaika | posted in: Seasonal Celebrations | 0

Happy Halloween/Blessed Samhain and All Soul’s Day! Favorite moments: Burning of the Maypole prayer ribbons. When the still beautifully woven maypole ribbons were laid out encircling the firepit, they looked for all the world like the shed skin of a … Continued

Beltane 2012 Reflections
2 May 2012

Beltane 2012 Reflections

by Betty Lou Chaika | posted in: Seasonal Celebrations | 0

Beltane 2012 Reflections: So many images stand out in my mind: the many different kinds of butterflies that fluttered by (two of the Irish pieces were The Swallowtail and The Butterfly!); the women off in the fields of tall grasses … Continued

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  • Spring Equinox: Prayers for Ukraine March 30th 2022
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  • Earth-Dreaming Ritual: Milk Flows September 1st 2021
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  • Inner Fish/Outer Fish June 21st 2021
  • Sacred Ground: A Whale of a Tale April 20th 2021
  • Turning a Trip Into a Pilgrimage March 19th 2021
  • Plant Love Stories February 11th 2021
  • Celebrating Imbolc: A Time for Healing January 25th 2021
  • Earth-Dreaming: The Mysterious Tree House December 20th 2020
  • Indigenous American Thanksgiving November 25th 2020
  • Celebrating Samhain: The Mystery of Transformation October 31st 2020
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  • Autumn Equinox: Circles of Peace September 21st 2020
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  • Celebrating Lughnasa: A Vision of Leadership August 4th 2020
  • Ceremony: Welcoming Back the Pollinators June 30th 2020
  • Beltane Maypole Sun Celebrating Beltane: A Passionate Burning April 30th 2020
  • Five bluebird eggs Restoring the Forest, Restoring Ourselves March 28th 2020
  • The Stone Garden The Stone Garden: A Delicate Balance February 21st 2020
  • TundraSwans flying over moon at Pocosin Lakesmoon Miracle at Pocosin Lakes January 30th 2020
  • Drawing of orange marigold Earth-Dreaming: Marigold Transformation December 30th 2019
  • A Magical Stone, A Healing Chant November 29th 2019
  • Sacred Landscape: Native American Effigy Mounds October 13th 2019
  • Turtle Teachings September 9th 2019
  • Sacred Trees: Rag Tree, Rock Tree, Witch Tree August 3rd 2019
  • Summer Solstice: Co-Creating Ritual and Ceremony June 24th 2019
  • Thomas Berry: Celebrating a Wise Earth Elder June 4th 2019
  • Garden Path Earth Day: Temenos Garden Sanctuary April 22nd 2019
  • Inventory of Garden Native Plants and Animals April 1st 2019
  • Earth-Dreaming: Liminal Waters March 19th 2019
  • Divine Feminine/Sacred Landscape: St.Gobnait, Lady of the Bees February 11th 2019

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