My toddler, just the other day, made a point to say, "Bye, tree! See you soon!" to a nearby tree while we were walking away. I think children are natural animists - it is very easy for them to say "sorry" to a rock if they drop it or talk to a worm like it will talk back. They just naturally seem to see their connection with the world in a way we've lost with colonialism and industrialism.

May we all have the ecocentrism of a child.

Thank you for 100 folks looking in at my little channel. As a note, the channel is largely a diary of my druidic journey with some memes scattered about, but I appreciate everyone popping in for the memes.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere like I do, and find that you feel the desire to slow down about this time, whether that is in your faith practice or your work or anything else, listen to that. It is your ancestral memory talking. Humans are just as much cyclical creatures as any other animal. Sit down with a candle, drink some hot cocoa, lounge. In an era where everyone is expected to go and do everything as quickly as possible it is revolutionary to listen to your body and just do nothing for a while.

I say this emphatically, earnestly, and enthusiastically - if you are interested in earth-based spirituality, there are few ways that tap into the human creature better than skyclad/nude ritual. Other participants not needed. You will feel closer to yourself, your surroundings, and your gods, should you choose to have them.

Good Thor's Day.

I am pleasantly surprised to see a pretty large influx of furry subscribers. While I'm not particularly out looking to gain subscribers, as this channel is a personal project, I am glad to see this is the case, as I genuinely see the otherkin and therianthrope communities as a modern revival of Totemic religions. The only major difference between the two, if we are to be honest, is the artwork associated.

Ah. Ancient people and those in 2024 shake hands in recognition of their spiritual connection, past and present, to the other animals of our world. Lovely.

🤝

Merry winter solstice, friends.

In Ireland, this holiday was celebrated by the Celtic druids as Grianstad An Gheimhridh, celebrated in a manner similar to the Nordic Yule, placing four candles of various colors atop a log and letting them burn down over the night. While the story of the Holly King and Oak King are certainly an interesting play on the dual nature of the Horned God, there is no official evidence they existed in Celtic folklore prior to their introduction into the Wiccan religion in 1970, so I feel no need to include it in my druidic practice, though I understand why others do.

As I explore my own cultural connection to the Celtic druidic tradition, I find that it is but a small thing to reintroduce the celebration of season. We have lost our wildness, and as all animals follow and accept the changing of autumn into winter, winter into spring, spring into summer, and summer into autumn again, so must we as human animals do likewise.

It is coming close to darkness now. Gather with your friends as you can. Light fires, small or large. Eat warm food. Drink as you feel led. And most of all - rest.

I've said it before and will say it again: the recognition of human as equal to nature requires not only the recognition of human as animal but of animal (as with all things, "living" and not) as divine. Chimpanzees dance at rainfall. Elephants recognize and celebrate moon cycles. Crows hold vigils for the dead. To properly place ourselves in the context of the world around us we must remove the colonialist idea of divinity and spirituality as something "above" the natural world.

No.

Wildness is next to godliness.