The Amazon Tree

The Amazon Tree

by | Oct 1, 2014 | More on My Books

This Post is an Excerpt from my book: The Amazon Pattern.   For a number of years, I was in a women’s spiritual group who met to do Earth based rituals in Northern California once a month. For reasons that were not completely clear to any of us, we called...
Yggdrasil: The Scandinavian World Tree

Yggdrasil: The Scandinavian World Tree

by | Mar 7, 2014 | About Divination

Myths are cultural stories that reveal to us what happened to the wise ways when they were forced underground in the times of persecution. Often the myths have originally come through divination, which indicates the medicine people saw what was coming and divined on...
The Walnut Tree of Benevento Italy

The Walnut Tree of Benevento Italy

by | Feb 25, 2014 | Strega and Italian-Americana

The town of Benevento, Italy is famous for the legends of its ancient walnut tree. The Streghe danced around this tree in ritual celebration until it was deliberately cut down in 662 AD. According to Raven Grimassi’s research, the spiritual power specific to the...
The World Tree

The World Tree

by | Feb 18, 2014 | About Divination

In many traditions there is a cosmology of the “World Tree.” In this belief system, the World Tree creates and maintains the directions. The World Tree imparts structure and order to the world. It provides rhythm and sets the pulse of time. In most traditions there is...