Contrary to appearances, beginning with my previous post I am actually attempting to head towards writing about the underworld meditation from our last Wood Sisters day. But reflecting on it has led to many other thoughts, meanwhile the sacred cycle… Continue Reading …

As I move between reflecting on the Wood Sisters Spring Equinox meditation and preparing for the Beltane one, plus writing notes for the Tree of Life School on spiritual living, I am finding myself thinking hard about the nature and… Continue Reading …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …