We are about to move into Aries season, which is bringing the rising fire of growth, direction, ambition, emergence. The equinox marks the balance of light and dark, and then we begin to tip toward the light. The warmth returns. The Greening spreads across the landscape. The vibrant green new leaves will begin pushing through their buds, the dogwoods and redbuds will bloom. Life will have returned. This Spring is especially potent because we have collectively been walking in

As a practitioner of the Old Ways, and by that I mean the wisdom and folk traditions that were handed down from the pre-Christian European nature-centric worldview, I feel very connected to and enlivened by the movement of the seasons. I subscribe to the belief that life is holographic. Everything that happens in the visible realm is happening simultaneously in the subtle inner realms. That, in truth, we are both the dreamer and the dream. As a being made of energy (even matt