Treasa's Thoughts

As I showed yesterday I am currently using a new divination system. The system consists of six categories of six tiles each. This was a deliberate paring down from my original set of 54 tiles (6 x 9), which had too much overlapping of meanings between the tiles (and which would have required a much [...]

Since about Yule of last year I have been working with a divination system for use in ritual that was specifically designed with ADF in mind. Originally, I just wrote what I had in mind on small wooden hearts (so I would have something to easily pull). The system has gone through some changes, but [...]

Last weekend I saw Agora. For those of you unfamiliar with the story, it tells the tale of Hypatia of Alexandria, a philosopher (who happens to be a woman) at the time of the Christianization of Alexandria (and the rest of the Empire). The story centers around two periods in history: the taking of the [...]

Yesterday Charter Oak Grove had a wonderful Samhain ritual. We honored Cathubodua and the Ancestors, using the Gaulish hearth culture for the ritual. In spite of the wind (which did not quite blow out our candles) and the cold, the rite went very well. We honored the Ancestors in four parts (Ancestors of Humanity, Blood, [...]