The Hermetic Wild Child
On July 13th 2021, Venus and Mars made love in Sekhmet’s lair and conceived the hermetic wild child in the solar winds.* As I real-eyes this new archetype within myself, he/she/me becomes more stable and begins to show up in…
Hekate: Queen of Thresholds
Hekate Trivia, Goddess-Witch-Queen, is the animating power of thresholds, doorways, boundaries and portals and the liminal in-betweens, neither here nor there, the hypnagogic state. Third eye blindness prevents us from perceiving the energetic significance of these edges and borderlands, but…
Salvage Greenhouse
DIY greenhouse from salvage This was our first greenhouse effort: Several hundred euros, several hundred pieces to put together, eighty-five pages of instructions and fifteen minutes of wind! Obviously way too suburban for our environment. We salvaged some bits of…
Rosehip syrup
This week I made rosehip syrup. Our hedgerows have masses of wild roses and at this time of year the hips are bright red. Rosehips are an excellent, natural and local source of vitamin C through the winter, much of…
Chamomile/manzanilla
Chamomile/manzanilla grows wild around here and I’ve been picking and drying it. It smells beautiful and fresh and tastes much nicer than any of the commercial versions. Only a few heads are needed for a cup, which I sweeten slightly…
Hay making
We’ve got a push along petrol mower and several fields that needed mowing and we were wondering how this would get done. Or perhaps we would just let the fields grow for a while. Then a neighbour showed up. Actually…
