Brighid-along with Sassafras Grove · Sassafras Grove.
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A really interesting idea from another ADF grove!
January 19, 2012 at 9:44 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Brighid, groves, Imbolc
Brighid-along with Sassafras Grove · Sassafras Grove.
via Brighid-along with Sassafras Grove · Sassafras Grove.
A really interesting idea from another ADF grove!
September 10, 2011 at 9:33 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: food, garden, herbalism, nature spirits
EDIT: This was meant for my personal blog, The Ditzy Druid, but I’ll leave this here anyway. If anyone else wants to share photos of their garden, let me know!
Summer is on its way out, but the garden is still going strong! Despite the increasingly chilly nights, the days are still warm. I’ve got some time left to enjoy my patio garden!
From Garden |
Lavender flowers
From Garden |
Still getting some bush beans…
From Garden |
New baby zucchinis!
From Garden |
Big, fat brandywine tomatoes growing on the vine
From Garden |
An increasingly orange pumpkin. I think it’s ready to pick…
From Garden |
Eggplants
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A new baby pumpkin!
From Garden |
Peppers
From Garden |
The moon is still waxing so it’s a great time to harvest herbs. I brought some lavender flowers and Italian Oregano in for drying, but not before making offerings of specially blessed waters in exchange.
August 6, 2011 at 4:41 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: 2011, games, Lughnasadh
As part of our Lughnasadh festivities, we held our traditional games. This year, the games were more physical and included such activities as racing, stone put, caber tossing, balancing, dancing, and a lawn game from Sweden called Kubb.
The competition was fierce and everyone performed valiantly. In the end, the winters of the games were:
July 31, 2011 at 7:54 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: birthday, food, fun, Lughnasadh, Skip
Yesterday, Folk and Friends of the grove gathered to celebrate Lughnasadh. In addition, we took this occasion to celebrate Muin Mound’s 21st birthday!
July 22, 2011 at 5:07 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Book Club, books, Celtic culture, Gods, Ireland
Hey Grovies,
Sorry it took me awhile to get this started. Things have been a bit hectic recently but I didn’t forget!
We’re going to finish our discussion on the novel Bard the Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn on the blog. Our last discussion didn’t happen because of schedule changes and our next meeting will include our Lughnasadh games… So there might not be a lot of time for book chat.
Here are some points that might be worth discussing:
Morgan Llywelyn’s portrayal of the Tuatha de Danann?
July 20, 2011 at 4:05 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Celts, links, meetings, Vikings, women
A couple meetings ago, we had a brief discussion on women in Celtic society. I’ve been very interested in updating my understanding of the subject since. Today I saw this post in “The Mary Sue” about Viking women. The author doesn’t link to the research/findings she references, though. I thought some of you would enjoy it.
So, if anyone has any good, recent articles about women in IE cultures, share some links below!
Peace,
Grey Catsidhe
July 2, 2011 at 3:57 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: gift registry
As many of you know we will be having a birthday party themed service for Lughnasadh to celebrate our grove’s 21st anniversary. We sat down and developed the following list of ritual supplies the grove routinely requires. In addition we have included items that the Ellison family tends to supply that the rest of us often take for granted. We ask that people sign up for specific items the way you would in a gift registry. However for most items is ok if we get mutiples, they will eventually get used.
Olive oil, tobacco (Candee), cornmeal, ale (the good stuff) (Sharon), herbs (Candee), votives (Jen K), fire pot, bug spray, soda, rolled oats, small whiskey bottles, insence sticks, small insence sticks (Willow), bird seed w/bucket & lid, long handled lighters, old sheets, and silver.
June 1, 2011 at 6:20 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: arts and crafts, business, Gods, ritual, website, Wellspring
Jen K. requested a different image on the homepage as the lightening had more to do with Taranis than Airmid and Miach – the Gods we’ll be honoring for Midsummer. I suggested a photo of the Airmid doll I made and she thought that sounded great. I’m happy to share my work as I think the site would benefit from more “homemade” images.
I also noticed that Beltaine’s meeting minutes weren’t loading correctly so I tweaked that.
Soon I’ll be adding our Wellspring meeting minutes and photos!
Visit our website: http://www.muinmound.org/index.htm.