Day: January 26, 2020

Fasces

secretsoftheserpent

The fasces was the symbol of the Roman government.    It symboled magisterial and priestly power.  The fasces is a bundle of 12 rods and may or may not have an axe in the middle of it.  This symbol is used so many countries today.  It is everywhere if you look for it.  What is the meaning of this symbol?  If Italy used if for fascism style government, why is it on so many of the worlds other government and religious symbols?   This symbol ultimately shows that government, secret societies and patriarch religions are intertwined.  Time to enlighten.

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Cycles of Nature, Cycles of our Lives: Allowing for Fallow and Abundance in Spiritual Studies

The Druid's Garden

Preamble: Now that I’m the Grand Archdruid of AODA, starting in 2020, I will be doing one AODA Druidry-based post a month. A lot of my posts are already tied with AODA practices as it is my core spiritual practice, but I wasn’t always as explicit about it as I will be now! 🙂  All of these posts, while framed in the context of AODA druidry, will be applicable to many different kinds of nature-based spiritualities and druidries.

A beautiful cardinal flower in late summer

The Wheel of the Seasons offers us many lessons and one of the core principles in AODA is the principle of the Cycle and Season. In Western Pennsylvania, where I live, we have a growing season that runs from May to late October. That us, from Beltane to Samhain, during the light half of the year, we can grow vegetables, forage berries, and be…

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