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Wood Sisters Spring Equinox

Wood Sisters Wishing Well It was a pleasure to welcome both familiar and new faces at our Wood Sisters Spring Equinox celebration on Saturday. Sisters started to arrive at 9am and got the day underway with a fair quantity of… Continue Reading …

Vernal Equinox

There was a surprisingly amount of howling happening in the sleepy hamlet of Week, Dartington last night… and while some was certainly coming from the Vicarage garden, we were not alone in noisily celebrating last night’s especially magnificent and misty… Continue Reading …

A thing of beauty

Spring arrived briefly this morning in Dartington (but had fled by tea time) and the sun was warm, the trees full of chattering birds and the playing fields full of footballers! Dartington Hall gardens get more beautiful with every passing… Continue Reading …

Wood Sisters and Sacrifice

Dartington Daffodils It’s just a few weeks now until our next Wood Sisters Day on Saturday 26th March, when we’ll be celebrating the Spring Equinox with our usual rich feast of meditation, myth and storytelling, simple ritual and sacred time… Continue Reading …

Approaching the Spring Equinox and Lent

New moon at Sunset from the Vicarage We met in that dark time, just before the new moon for the Circle on Thursday. As we fed ingredients into our shared ‘wisdom pot’, the equinoctial theme of balance kept recurring. During… Continue Reading …

Beautiful Soup

Spring is almost sprung and we now have flowering rhododendron and daffodils to rival Dartington Hall (almost), right here in the Vicarage garden. We also have our first crop of nettles, picked by Tam and his friend Benedikt who arrived… Continue Reading …

Early Spring Delights in Dartington

Vicarage Hyacinths I woke just before sunrise this morning and was indeed delighted to see a clear blue sky. Walking through to the living room, still warm from last night’s fire, I was met by the sweet scent of hyacinths…and… Continue Reading …

Wood Sisters Imbolc

Dartington Witchhazel – Early Spring Light in the Darkness Once again the gathering of the Wood Sisters was a total inspiration to me. I think I will never cease to delight in all the depth, wisdom, creativity and laughter that… Continue Reading …

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