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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20 but posted today on the 21- the #WinterSolstice where we celebrate the imminent (albeit slow) return of the #Sun in the northern hemisphere, but we also ought to remember the importance of darkness which is at its strongest now: rest, soil, womb, rebirth. 2 images to emphasize the #duality #pagan #animist #Ragana #Saule #winter #garden #nature #SeasonalRhythms

A loose airy wild grass head arcs down across the view fromthe upper right, catching a bit of sun that highlights its pale gold against the blue-shadowy snow behind. Another plant, a Euonymus with sparse longish very narrow dark slightly reddish leaves rises from the lower right contrasting the form and colour of the grass. One stem at the bottom is half in focus, another longer one behind the grass is out of focus and in shadow. The edges are blurred and a black vignette applied to enhance the effect of shadow for the shortest day of the year, and remind that we must acknowledge/celebrate darkness= rest, soil, womb, rebirth. An orange reddish colour is picked up from the centre tip of the darker plant and used for a thin border around the image and lettering in loose script that says Blessed Solstice.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18 From the other morning when the snow was at times horizontal. Thankfully that didn't last long, but now we head into some even colder weather for the weekend. In this view the grouse were writing messages to Bird Goddess in the snow...
#winter #Ablerta #nature #birds #animist #photography

From lower left and mid left, two sets of bird footprints in nearly straight lines cross the snowy ground, angling slightly upward to the right. The fresh powder snow on the surface is not too deep and the prints are distinct. A slight film filter giving a faint violet hint and enhancing the snow texture has been applied, and edges are blurred and a white vignette effect used.

I usually like to use current photos for #ArtAdventCalendar (Day 09) but yesterday I was only out long enough to cut a little wood + too lazy to take photos of decorations..lol So! as we approach Winter Solstice, views from the opposite side of the year as we approached Summer Solstice. I chose shots with a lot of shadow as a reminder that there always needs to be a balance between Light + Dark #animist #pagan #summer #florespondence #Bloomscrolling #butterfly #inverts #NativePlants #pollinators

The tip of a native pea plant (Lathyrus ochroleucus) emerges from dark green shadow to a bit of sun that lights a couple of golden green leaves and bracts along with a cluster of narrow tubular cream coloured flowers. One small butterfly- silver grey with white fringed wings adn almost electric blue painted on its centre- sits on the flower cluster while another flies toward the flowers, about to land. The background is shadowed foliage, with the edges darkened and blurred to enhance the already dark shadows, while the green -gold of leaves has been intensified emphasising the idea that the height of summer still holds darkness even while Sun is at peak.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 02 (still late..lol)
Snow Mother hasn't been around that much this year, but she's starting to catch up this week. #winter #pagan #Latvian #animist #snow #garden

A close view of a couple of remaining apple-crabs on a snowy tree. The apples have frozen and thawed repeatedly for a couple of months so though maybe partly/frozen at the moment they look soft, melted. A criss-cross of snow dusted branches is behind the fruit, and circles of light come through the blurred/shadowed trees behind. I've slightly tinted these violet, pinkish, orange. The edges/corners have a white vignette effect applied.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 01 (late!) A dark image to remind us as we await the sun's return in the north, that we also need to honour and celebrate the Darkness. Blood, soil, womb, rest, regeneration, rebirth- these are all tied to darkness. #TimeOfIce #pagan #animist #winter #Alberta #LichenSubscribe #BorealForest #CountryLiving

We are looking at the top of an old weathered fence post. The centre of the post has rotted away, so there is a sort of crater on top, which is out of focus and just slightly seen as we are looking almost straight on at the rim. The top of the post has a generous growth of fairly fine textured silvery-blue-green foliose lichen (with one small bit of an even finer sort with filaments) and tiny highlights of gold-green moss here and there. This growth continues down into the crater and also down the outside of the post, though there it is less dense, the bits smaller.The limited background is shadowed snow and just the suggestion of a wire grid fence. Edges are blurred and have a dark vignette effect applied to remind us of the darkness of the season.

3-Now the (first 2) #Spectra #Peertube links for the same videos, slightly smaller files, as always. You can also just go to my YouTube or Spectra page to see all the videos. See the first 2 posts for thumbnails with alt text

1 Goddess for Dark Days, Witches - and Rebirth!
https://spectra.video/w/db1nmv7JCBwWPgftrNrQCi
2 Time of Spirits Ends
https://spectra.video/w/vhTcJtejZJpypqkZweig1y
#Ragana #Halloween #Samhain #CrossQuarterDay #winter #pagan #animist #Latvian #SeasonalRhythms

2- This marks the end of the Time of Spirits, a period of remembrance and celebration of the dead-not just a night or a couple of days, but a whole season. Now begins the Winter season
2 Time of Spirits Ends
https://youtube.com/shorts/CM3iGNw_TG8?feature=share
3 Winter is Coming! Mārtiņi
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZBQYvYSSKow?feature=share
4 Time of Ice Begins: 2nd Snow Garden and Forest
https://youtube.com/shorts/u6z71Ml2g_8?feature=share
#TimeOfIce #pagan #animist #Alberta #Canada #nature #Winter #Baltic #CrossQuarterDay

It's me- same outfit and time as the image from first post (dark hoody etc, standing beside a birch tree) but this one is a capture from the video as one scene fades to another, so I'm partly faded into the background, edges of image are whitened and blurred. The text reads: Time of Spirits Ends (straight semi-bold font)- Samhain, Halloween etc (script) in white over a soft off-white background that matches the edges of the image.

A view of (part of) my back and backs of legs in dark hoody and jeans walking away, partly blended into the background of dry grass/foliage. Edges of the image are blurred, greyed, and there is text saying Mārtiņi (script) Winter is Coming (straight, semi-bold) in white over a soft backing to match the edges of the image.

Red-brown dry narrow maple leaves dangle from the tip of a fine branch against a blurred white-grey background of snow and other fine branches. The text says snow still comes and goes the coldest days have not arrived but (small simple font) Winter is Here! (larger font)

Time to update my #introduction -

I'm a #pagan #polytheist #animist #queer #author #artist and spiritworker. My specialty (obsession) is all things #Minoan though I do also have interests in other practices and traditions.

I'm the founder and Temple Mom of #AriadnesTribe inclusive Minoan spiritual tradition (there's a link in my bio). Yes, we're fully inclusive. All means all.

I've written pagan and magical #fiction and #nonfiction and created an adult #ColoringBook and a #Tarot deck.

I love #gardening and #LivingHistory (which in some places is called Heritage Interpretation) and preindustrial skills like #weaving #spinning #knitting #crochet #quilting #HearthCooking and I love learning new skills as well.

Are you #pagan or curious? Inclusive Minoan spirituality might be your groove! Open to all, it's a #polytheist #animist spiritual path that embraces diversity and respects the Earth. I've written four books about inclusive Minoan spirituality that might ring your chimes.

https://www.lauraperryauthor.com/

#FediBookFair #book #books #mythology #paganism

Four book covers all in a row, all written by Laura Perry. From left to right, they are: Labrys & Horns: An Introduction to Modern Minoan Paganism (with an aqua cover and a large pair of sacred horns topped by a labrys); Pantheon: The Minoans, with a white cover and a photo of the Minoan Dolphin fresco from Knossos; Ariadne's Thread: Awakening the Wonders of the Ancient Minoans in Our Modern Lives, with a sky blue cover and a photo of the Ladies in Blue Minoan fresco from Knossos; and Tales from the Labyrinth: Modern Minoan Myths, with a white cover featuring the Minoan Snake Goddess with a labyrinth behind her, lilies at her feet, standing on a large pair of sacred horns and flanked by columns.

【公式】（コマ撮り）「メガシンカポケモン同士の勝負」をフィギュアで再現してみた
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7ViG1Ap8Byo

#youtube_PokemonCoJp #メガシンカ #メガリザードン #メガリザードンX #メガリザードンY #リザードン #ポケットモンスター #ポケミニッツ #ポケモン #megaevolution #megacharizard #megacharizardx #megacharizardy #charizard #pokemon #pokeminutes #animist #stopmotion #ストップモーション #コマ撮り #pokemonconcierge #ポケモンコンシェルジュ #モンコレ #タカラトミー #ニャオハ #ポカブ #ピカチュウ #イーブイ #チコリータ #ワニノコ #コダック #tepig #sprigatito #pikachu #eevee #totodile #psyduck #chikorita

Here's the #Spectra link to the #AutumnEquinox short video
After the Equinox we enter the #TimeOfSpirits leading into #winter when we honour, remember, spend time with loved ones no longer with us physically.
#fall #AncientWays #SeasonalRhythms #animist #Goddess
https://spectra.video/w/q7JUDUUEdmizRGPGBmX8RV

For #AutumnEquinox a short video of me gathering foliage on the farm, then showing the finished #altar for the season, honouring primordial #BirdGoddess + #GreatMother #Māra + #Ragana the Wild One + the Twin Gods + remembering my Mom and Aunt (The Penguin was carved by my brother for my Mom's collection; the Owl was my Aunt's, and they double as Bird Goddess avatars!)
#fall #Alberta #Canada #GoddessCulture #animist #pagan #SolaceInNature
YouTube link, Spectra to follow
https://youtube.com/shorts/4xaqEt4Es2U?feature=share

A rustic wooden bench stands in front of a green Linden tree. Most of the view is in early evening shadow except for part of the top of the bench which is catching golden sunlight. The bench serves as an altar to the season, covered in small potted plants- pink + green trailing Sedum, hair fine green Carex, small Spruce saplings, chocolate Ajuga etc. Between and around the pots are a few small earthenware vases stuffed with pink Dianthus flowers, pearly everlastings, a Carlina thistle flower head etc. There are also many branches and leaves of wild and garden plants in autumn colour some springs of various wild and garden berries and some crab-apples. Near the centre, immersed in the foliage, fruit and flowers are a carved wooden penguin in stained black and blond wood and a small ceramic whitish owl wings outspread as though it has just landed on the ground.

This was last year's blog post for #AutumnEquinox thoughts on the cycles + rhythms of nature, the approach of winter + the #TimeOfSpirits ( #Samhain #Halloween ) #loss #remembrance the ancient #TwinGods #animist #pagan #Baltic #Latvian #Alberta #Canada
photos and videos including #Spectra links
I'm working on a new short video of this year's Equinox #altar etc
https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/09/autumn-equinox-apjumibas-altar-to.html

#AutumnEquinox middle of #autumn though we've had a long stretch of warm dry weather + the season doesn't feel that advanced - it was near/below the freezing mark last night, more to come soon, no doubt! Wishing all in the Northern Hemisphere a beautiful autumn +winter to come- time of ripening, maturing, senescence, death that precedes rebirth- heralded by the most crazy beautiful natural spectacle of the year! #pagan #animist #baltic #Latvian #Alberta #Canada #nature #garden #SeasonalRhythms

A number of sparse stems of light silvery electric blue Sea Holly/Eryngium along with some long wavy leaves of Horseradish rise from grass against a background of a large Potentilla/Dasiphora bush with green foliage and scattered golden flowers which straddles a low wire fence which is completely obscured by various foliage. A Virginia Creeper in red to deep dark burgundy wine fall colour vine threads through higher above the Potentilla through willow and poplar saplings on the left, then lower to the right the fence is fully covered by the red foliage. Farther back we see the lower part of mixed woods with hints of autumn gold.
The image has a narrow dull gold border and semi-script text in slightly varying sizes and tones of gold that says "wishing you a Blessed Autumn Equinox"

This video is from August 27- early signs of #Autumn + #apples
Things have moved along a lot already, though we still have a lot of green, and the above average temperatures have continued over the last few weeks. #LeafMother begins her work slowly, picking up speed day after day.. #Alberta #Baltic #Latvian #pagan #animist #weather #garden Youtube link, #Spectra to follow
https://youtube.com/shorts/MRbmz4_aIW8?feature=share

Close view of the tip of a small twig on a small plum tree holds just two elongated oval leaves. The leaves have one side dull red and the other side faded green half or more blended to red. The background is blurred partly shaded green foliage crossed with a few greyish twigs.

Yesterday was my #LazyMonday so #GausuMate #MotherOfLaziness told me to take it easy! I went out in the late afternoon, spent some time watching birds around the apple trees and had a nice short #SlowWalk around the acreage and into the bush on the farm. #garden #nature #Alberta #Autumn #fall #Baltic #Latvian #animist #pagan

An old guy facing 3/4 away from the camera, walking away to the left, wearing a rather beat and faded up old long sleeve shirt, white and grey subtle plaid, over dark jeans. A grey braid comes through the back of an off-white cap, and we just see a bit of the face with glasses, looking downward. The late day sun is just coming past the edge of shadowed trees to the left, the rays coming through the slightly hazy air and the camera lens making faint rainbow hued geometric shapes. To the right and in front there are knee to waist high grasses, low bushy willows and taller ones to a handful of metres, with higher poplars farther back.

Looking across a (not recently) mowed area with lots of dandelion and clover leaves showing and some dark dry clover seed heads. In the middle of the view a low wire fence crosses, mostly invisible under a generous growth of vines with compound palmate leaves mostly turned orange-red to burgundy with autumn colour, some lower leaves still showing green. Beyond we see parts of various bushy growth, and farther back we see the lower half of an area of mature mixed woods with a bit of light coming through the trees.

#Spectra #Peertube video link, same video, smaller file
I suspect this deer is often around/on the acreage, near or in the yard, though she rarely touches garden plants (occasional nipped stem) so she may be familiar with my scent/sound.
#CountryLiving #animist

https://spectra.video/w/j3HBp5bHrq8z1D2baem8WV

Another blog from #wordsbyterryl . This week Terryl offers some thought on how we are treating #MotherEarth.
Man versus nature. Who will win this epic battle? It looks like man has just about conquered Nature, as he set out to do so long ago. What does a win look like in that war? And will mankind survive it?

https://blog.moonlitpress.org/an-epic-battle

#CreativeNonfiction #writing #fullMoon #shortStory
#Nature #pagan #sustainability #hornedToad #Animist #AgToUrban

an extreme CU of a horned toad, just the eye and head.
scales all over, slight reddish ting. spikey thing from around the neck ara.

There are still some warm days to come, but #FrostMother is leaving hints on chilly nights and #LeafMother is letting us know she's around as more bits of colour appear in the foliage.. #Autumn begins, slowly, subtly but soon to gain speed.. #FoliageFriday On a smoky day in mid-week: Amur Maple Acer tataricum subsp. ginnala in the #Garden
#nature #SeasonalRhythms #pagan #animist #Latvian #Baltic #Alberta #Canada

A large spruce tree blurs into the background, the hazy sky behind it showing through the branches and eroding the edges of the boughs that reach upward to the right with myriad circles of light. In front, emerging from mostly green foliage in lower left, a single slight maple branch also reaches up to the light, echoing the reach of the spruce behind. The leaves range from green at the tip through pink-gold tinged faded green to near red where the branch emerges from its green sisters.

@mikemccaffrey
He's also something of an #animist, right? He treats all species remarkably similar at least.

#animist

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