The first moments after waking possess a silence unlike any other. The day has not yet gathered its full weight. Thoughts remain distant, the rooms are quiet and the mind stands close to the place from which dreams have only just withdrawn. This is the hour chosen for assimilation with the God and Goddess. The...
When the last harvest has been gathered and the fields begin to surrender to frost, Samhain arrives. It is a night of endings, but never of emptiness. The old year withdraws into darkness, carrying what has been completed, lost or outgrown. Beyond that darkness, the first quiet shape of the new year waits to be...