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		<title>Dreams Begin to Take Form</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have written previously on several ocassions, in Druidry the tide between Samhain and Yule is a time of chaos, a time where we allow ourselves to drift and dream, floating in the cauldron, letting go of the need for handles to hold on to. Out of this dreaming come ideas that begin to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=658&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Samhain Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my grovemates expressed that she felt she had nothing really to release this Samhain. She has had a great year, riding on smooth currents, finding purpose, love and ecstasy. Sometime we manage to find a current in life that doesn&#8217;t feel like baggage. These currents are precious as they can fuel us through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=640&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Not Knowing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year we experience the Samhain tide &#8211; the time between Samhain and Yule. It is a time where the cycle of growth has ended and the new cycle of the year has yet to begin. Natural death in Nature comes with the first killing frost. Our harvest is in or it is lost. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=630&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I head to the local prison to celebrate Samhain with the prisoners who established the Wiccan Group. I always look forward to visiting the prison as I encounter men who really are working to walk the talk of their religious ideals. Part of tomorrow&#8217;s celebration will be the sharing of pomegranate juice and fruit, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=622&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes our harvests are not what we expected them to be. Sometimes the nature of our harvest is simply too complex to spell out. Expression is important though and the results of our efforts can perhaps best be expressed through poetry. So I offer up this harvest poem for you all. Blessings of change, Life&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=601&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Altars Alter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking through old photos of altars that my grove created as part of our rituals. I was struck by their variety and beauty. It never fails that when we co-create our ritual space, the altars always hum with beauty. They are also perfectly appropriate and effective. But what is the point? Are we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=574&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got of the phone with a dear friend and mentor of mine in California. We had a great conversation and got on the topic of prayer. From our sharing, something shifted for me regarding the nature of prayer and how to speak about it. Most people have the idea of prayer as talking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=561&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awen &#8211; Life Energy in Motion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a recent email exchange with someone and I wrote about the nature of Awen. I think what I wrote stands up and I thought to share it with you.  Here it is with a few edits :&#62;) Awen is the life energy and it flows between two souls when they open to each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=551&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless Ritual</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My grove recently celebrated Alban Hefin (the summer solstice). This year we didn&#8217;t do any formal ritual. It was an exercise in simplicity. And I have to say it was as an effective a ritual as any. One grovemate lives in a cottage on a farm here in Southern Maine. So we gathered at her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=540&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Instant Ritual</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still in California&#8230; Today I ventured out at lunch to find something to eat. I settled on noodles from a restaurant next to the hotel I am staying at. After I got my food and stepped out of the restaurant, my attention turned to two little birds in the outside dining area I was passing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=snowhawke.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7273505&amp;post=521&amp;subd=snowhawke&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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