Cool to see my work published in Touchstone again this month (even if it is under my deadname)! So grateful to be among the many contributors to the Order's collected wisdom.

#EsotericWriting #HealingMagic #EnergyWork #ritual #ovate #druid #druidry #OBOD

Henley's "Invictus" is one of my favorite poems. It informs my philosophy on enduring hardships. It inspired the creation of one of my wands. And now, it has inspired this two-card spread!

I'd love to hear what you get for this, if you feel inclined to try it out.

And if you're interested in taking a deeper dive into the Tarot, you can book a reading with me by email: sixsilverseals@gmail.com

#tarotreadersofig #tarot #tarotlife #invictus #poem #poetry #bard #ovate #druid #druidry

Indulge me in one last #wandpost for today, if you would, because I really dig the checkerboard pattern I burned into the handle of this one.

#wand #wandmaking #woodworking #pyrography #art #magecraft #bard #ovate #druid #Druidry #OBOD

This is from a few days ago, but I finally started trimming some of that stormfall I gathered on the full moon: 17 wands and four longer pieces so far! I have projects in mind for two of the latter already, but I'm not sure what I'll do with the others just yet.

There are still a ton of fallen branches to trim, I might be swimming in blanks come summer...

#woodworking #wandmaking #magecraft #bard #ovate #druid #OBOD #druidry

Three gems of the night sky: the Moon, who shows us one need not shine to be whole; the Big Dipper, who reminds us that one must only pour from a full cup; and Orion, who teaches us to draw, aim, and hit whatever it is we set our sights on.

#triad #writing #druidry #ovate #bard #obod

More #flute music from the archive. "Morning Has Broken" is one of my favorite songs to play, and I play it to greet the Sun as often as I'm able (which is tough to do in Winter because of the late sunrise).

You can just make out the bright green of Michigan summer out the window. I'm so eager for long, warm days to return again.

#music #ritual #obod #bard #ovate #druidry

Here's the handle inscription, "ad astra," Latin for "to the stars." This appears on all three of the wands made from this one branch, and it's probably the closest thing the Grove has to a motto.

#woodworking #woodburning #pyrography #wandmaking #obod #ovate #druidry #runes

Another #pyrography toot:

This is the tip of a wand I recently finished. The runes are a transliteration of the words "May hope fly," one half of the call-and-response farewell of my Grove.

This particular wand is one of three I made from a fallen branch, one of many gifted to me by the twin black walnuts that grow behind my house and serve as my steadfast companions on my Druidic journey. My dear friends Rowan and Audrey wield the other two, and it's around the three of us that the nascent Grove first took shape.

#wandmaking #woodworking #woodburning #obod #ovate #druidry

This is my shillelagh. Years ago, I found it while on a walk in my local forest, its head charred from the lightning strike that had felled the oak it was once a limb of. I was still working through the Bardic grade at the time, and left the initial Ogham fews unconnected from each other, sensing that there were mysteries I had yet to witness that would inform the empty spaces.

Here, as I approach the end of my Ovate studies and prepare for the work of the final grade, I have completed the inscription, adding //// Straif and /// Ngetal, which represent adversity and cleansing respectively. 2022 taught me a lot about what I needed to let fall away to step into myself more completely, and now I can carry those lessons with me both literally and figuratively.

#ogham #druidry #ovate #obod #woodworking #pyrography #wandmaking

Take inspiration wherever you find it.

#awen #inspiration #druidry #ovate #obod #woodworking #wandmaking

#introduction part 1!

Name: Zephyr
Age: 30
Interests:
#philosophy as an ex-scholar-- MA from Eastern Michigan, 2018
#druidry #mysticism and the #occult as a current student; I joined #OBOD 2.5 years ago and have nearly completed the #ovate grade
#runes and #tarot I have read professionally for 5 years
#nature and #wildlife #conservation
#music, especially the Native-style #flute

#angermanagement #alchemy #trauma #rapeculture #polytheism #Odin #chaostheory #Daoism #mediamagic #occulture #homelessness #displacement #shamanism #warlock #ovate #druid #bard