Green Way

“The grain to harvest’s cutting falls
to make the bread for banquet halls.
We’ll save some seeds where life’s waiting,
and plant a new field come next Spring.
We shared the work we needed to do,
and now we’ll share the eating too!
Thank you, fruit, and thank you bread,
for making sure that we are fed.”
- Asleen O’Gaea, Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Beltane to Mabon

Lately, I have been reading the following books:

Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Beltane to Mabon. Lore, Rituals, Activities, and Symbols. By Ashleen O’Gaea. Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, New Page Books, 2005. Bibliography, index, 219 pages. ISBN: 1564147320. A good in-depth study of four spring and summer Celebrations in the Wiccan-NeoPagan year. Rich in details and ideas.

Ceremonial Circles: Practice, Ritual, and Renewal for Personal and Community Healing. By Sedonia Cahill and Joshua Halpern. Harper San Francisco, 1992. 199 pages. ISBN: 0062501542. Interesting study of the psychology of circle groups and dances.

The Magickal Year: A Pagan Perspective on the Natural World. By Diana Ferguson. New York, Quality Paperback Book Club, 1996. References, index, 224 pages.

Native American Flute books and instructional manuals

“The Wheel rolls more, and Autumn returns.
Cooler the rain; the Sun lower burns.
The coloring leaves presage the Year:
All things move into harvest’s sphere.
I vow to savor fruits first picked;
nor into grief shall I be tricked.
I vow to offer what once I spurned,
and face the Turning reassured.
- Asleen O’Gaea, Celebrating the Seasons of Life: Beltane to Mabon