Two Stag Dance

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.
-Ernest Dowson

Registration is Open for October 2025 Classes! We, the members of the Fire & Ice Teaching Collective, are happy to announce our new class offerings for October 2025!

Are you a new Pagan who is exploring what is out there? Are you new to Nordic Paganism & want to learn more? Then sign up now for classes with the Frllowship of Fire & Ice as taught by me, @karaunndis.bsky.social, & @rissy.ca!
#HeathenSky #PaganSky #WitchSky #Religion #Spirituality

In a window alcove in the east,
There sat Old Nick, in shape of beast;
A shaggy dog, black, grim, and large,
To give them music was his charge:
He screwed the pipes and made them squeal,
Till roof and rafters all did ring...
-Robert Burns

Color photograph of twilight's approach over Pinchot Lake, with reflections of shoreside trees bedecked in fall colors, and the gradients of a cloudless evening reflecting in still waters

Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day.
-- A. E. Housman

Those awaiting midnight's orange/green caress .. I will be there too; to others, sleep well.

#Photography

‘My magic is dead,’ said thewitch. ‘I’m astounded
Thatpeople canfly tothemoon&around it.
It used tobe mine&thecat’s till theyfoundit.
My broomstick isdraughty, I snivel withcold
I’m painfully old,
&so is my cat;
But planet&spaceship
Rocket or raceship
Never shall part me from that.’
-Serraillier

Goblins on the doorstep
Phantoms in the air
Owls on witches' gate posts
Giving stare for stare.
Cats on flying broomsticks
Bats against the moon
Stirring round of fate-cakes,
With a solemn spoon.
Whirling apple parings,
Figures draped in sheets,
Dodging, disappearing,
Up&down the streets.
-DThompson

Wild rose with some sort of virus

Light as feathers the witches fly,
The horn of the moon is plain to see;
By a firefly under a jonquil flower
A goblin toasts a bumble-bee.
-Katherine Mansfield

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48423/...

It may look great to travel with a clean windshield but the decline of insects, besides being a tragedy in itself, affects all earthly ecosystems, such as the diet of birds, reptiles and amphibians, and pollination of plants, etc.
#bugs #insects #decline #pollinator #pollinators #bug #insect