I never really have understood the whole cultural appropriation bit. Syncretism happens.

Tags: white sage & Amerindian & Diné & Hopi & Havasupai & New Mexico & Arizona & Utah & cultural appropriation & syncretism & First Nation & Native American Church & peyote & morality & Christians & truth & virtue signaling

Tags: Arizona & monsoon & storms

Added to lexicon.

Tags: lexicon & calendars & sabbats & monsoon & Arizona & Yule & Imbolc & Ostara & Beltaine & Litha & Lammas & Mabon & Samhain & Sparkpoint & Greenmark & Summergate & Suncrest & Harvestpoint & Redmark & Wintergate & Starwell

Fog & snow at NeoWayland's home

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & poetry & orginal poem & child of the desert & nuzzles & winterborn & winter & wellspring & heart & fog & snow & Arizona & fire

My journey to and from a funeral reminds me of the world outside artificial light

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Arizona & funerals & New Mexico & urban areas & rural settings & night sky & city lights & Milky Way & starlight & roads & cars & hermit & making noise & gold stars & Blessed & Divine & camping & inner soul & outer soul

My mother's family arrived in Arizona from Louisiana

Tags: calendars & Arizona & Louisiana & mother & 1950 & grandmother & family & picture & highway sign

Me and that bird are going to have words

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & winter & garden & warm snap & Arizona & bubblers & Raven

A Weather.com reading makes me think

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & sky & Palm & weather & thunder & Arizona & wildfires & Canada & Greens Restaurant & spellcraft

Growing up in the desert, you appreciate a good rain.

Tags: rain & wind & Arizona & patio & ravens & tuna sandwich

Lotan often used the southwestern desert and Arizona in particular.

Tags: picture & vintage nudes & Three Graces & surrealist & Arizona & Lotan Lotan & Salvador Dali & painting & 1966 & nudity

This particular photo was taken on the customary Earth Day at Valdez, Alaska.

Tags: picture & EarthPorn reddit & Earth Day & northern lights & Valdez, Alaska & Arizona

Last Friday in April.
State tree is paloverde.
www.arborday.org/states/state.cfm?state=AZ

Tags: calendars & lore calendar & Arbor Day & Arizona

I'm winter-born, so a good snow always touches my soul in a quiet joyful way. I could watch it for hours. I did watch it for hours.

Tags: Starwell & winter-born & snow & high desert & Arizona

I wish a picture could do it justice.

Tags: sky & Arizona & azure

This only happens every seventy years or so.

Tags: Suncrest & bright moon & High Holidays & solstice & solar year & Moon & moon phase & wheel of the year & heat pump & Arizona & Phoenix & WebTree & Bright & Dark Blessings & Fire Festivals

❝The "Witch Winter Solstice Ritual" in Nylon is populist pap. It's a lot like having Easter using only Cadbury eggs and never once mentioning a resurrection or what it might mean.❞

Tags: Raymond Buckland & balance & the Gardener & grandfather & Unicorn Brigade & witch & witchcraft & coyotes & playgan & rabbits & Arizona & popular culture & solstice

The Woods. Summer weekends meant the family would escape the Phoenix heat. In the fall Dad insisted we come to watch the aspen turn. In the winter we would come to play in the snow. After the stepsibs moved away and it was just teenage me with the folks, we'd still come to enjoy the woods. I will always be the desert guy who Visits The Woods.

Tags: woods & red sandstone & fall & Walker & Wheel & Arizona & desert & fall & winter & Phoenix & green & aspen & pine & shadows & sun & family & snow & National Park & National Forest & lightning & new growth & circles with cycles & Walker & Christian & goodbye & honor & hiding from sorrow & harmony & I. Was. Different. & loss & stepdad & classic & Mom & stepsib

Bone, Heart, Thought, Deed, and Spirit, I choose to honor these people this season

Tags: Zenna Henderson & Doreen Valiente & chants & Gerald Gardner & Bill Thompson & Ladimir Kwiatkowski & Arizona & Heinlein & philos & philosopher & Louisianna & Wallace & Ladmo Show & Mighty Dead & great grandmother

Construction starts next week

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & statuary & Dutch blue & copper & staves & sunlight & wrought iron & Victorian & Arizona & house & garden & on the road & library & bears & solar tube & shiny copper & color & faux finish & stepdad & Corporate Clone & bears & walking sticks

Refuge

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & classic & Arizona & desert & refuge & front yards & wild heart & NeoDen & sanctum & backyards & touchstone & privacy fence & sun patio & outdoor ritual area & secret heart & vegetable patch & mask & sunbathing & moonbathing

Essays on writing have me thinking and remembering

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & watch list & redemption & restitution & Jason Pitzl-Waters & Lupa & e•friend & ego & Divine & classic & vaudeville & TV & Big Name Pagan & Christians & stepdad & mom & Christian & Wiccan Crusaders & pagan community & Arizona & Utah & New Mexico & California & Colorado & shadows & borders & fringes & borders & shadows & Wild Hunt Blog & Cat Chapin Bishop & Quaker Pagan Reflections & Maggie Stiefvater & Christian Evangelical & Southern Baptist & United Methodist & witchwar & Excite Clubs & Back to the Future

Feeling the energy

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & desert & Arizona & life & classic & energy moves & Divine & mundane & seperation & WebTree & orgone & wyrd & Plato & connections & Nature & Gaia & "authentic" & monotheism 1st sin & monotheism 2nd sin

Season of water

Tags: wheel of the year & 3rd Yearnings & Solar Festivals & short & equinox & Arizona

It's true! It's true! The crown has made it clear.
The climate must be perfect all the year.

A law was made a distant moon ago here:
July and August cannot be too hot.
And there's a legal limit to the snow here
In Camelot.
The winter is forbidden till December
And exits March the second on the dot.
By order, summer lingers through September
In Camelot.

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & wheel of the year & Moon & lyrics & Colorado & rotational day & interweave & dynamic tension & lunar month & solar year & New Mexico & WebTree & Greenwich Meridian Time & Arizona & DST & California & Nevada & Utah & Mike Nichols

Want some seasoning with that weather?

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & monsoon & seasons & equinox & solstice & Arizona

Places on the Wheel

Tags: 3rd Yearnings & Nature & today & Arizona & stepdad & Phoenix AZ & Tucson & Colorado River & high desert & low desert & family & passing & classic

Here’s the secret to being a pagan

Tags: manifest & connections & today & Christian & balance & the Gardener & grandfather & Southern Baptist & Arizona & grandmother & secret of life & being a pagan