Wonderful Weirdos: Meeting the Leopard Slug
I’ve had a brutal cold for a week now, gone through an entire box of tissue and spent way more time in bed than I like (and I like a LOT...
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Michelle
- Nov 27, 2022
- 5 min
But Do You Love Them? Polytheism and Sacred Animals
Crows seem to be very popular in the pagan and polytheist world right now, simultaneously serving as sacred companions to many ancient...
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Michelle
- Nov 25, 2022
- 3 min
Writing About Plants: Bloom Times
A common mistake many authors make when writing about plants has to do with when they bloom. I've seen Queen Anne's lace described as an...
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Michelle
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
Meeting Rosemary: The Plant Spirit Ally Challenge
I have to admit I was underwhelmed the first time I met rosemary. Maybe because I met them at a plant nursery, and the only rosemary...
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Michelle
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
Meeting Western Red Cedar: The Plant Spirit Ally Challenge
As many of you know by now, I’m going through the Plant Spirit Ally Challenge in a slightly different way than the first time. I plan to...
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Michelle
- Oct 15, 2022
- 4 min
Five Tips on Writing About Plants
If this post looks familiar, it should! It appeared on the Hagstone Publishing website a few years ago in a slightly different form. Many...
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Michelle
- Oct 9, 2022
- 3 min
Do You Have a Plant Ally? The Plant Spirit Ally Challenge is Coming Back
I used to have a little publishing company called Hagstone Publishing, and back in May of 2019, Hagstone ran a 30 day Plant Spirit Ally...
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Michelle
- Oct 5, 2022
- 4 min
It's Enough to be Invited In: Animism, Agency, and Expectation
It’s just a little pocket of a park, tucked between some houses and a middle school, kind of hard to find unless you spot it on a map and...
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Michelle
- Nov 18, 2021
- 7 min
Unequal Exchange: Reciprocity and the Land
Over the past three years I’ve been courting the spirits of the wetland park near my home. This park is one of the most betwixt and...
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Michelle
- Jul 8, 2019
- 4 min
Do You Know Dandelion?
I’ve been reading - and talking - a lot about plant blindness lately, and how sad it is how many adults can’t even identify more than...
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Michelle
- May 16, 2019
- 2 min
In the Garden: Flower Season
There have been so many changes since my Good Bones post back in March! And flower season has begun in earnest. The lilacs at the end of...
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Michelle
- Apr 18, 2019
- 2 min
In the Garden: Dandelion Season
Dandelion season is here! And this means while other gardeners are shaking their heads and reaching for their herbicides, I'm outside...
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Michelle
- Apr 4, 2019
- 3 min
You Breathe Out, She Breathes In: A Plant Meditation
Learning to communicate and make magic with plants doesn't have to be a difficult or complicated process. Many plants are eager to form...
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Michelle
- Mar 21, 2019
- 3 min
The Beauty of Elemental Thinking
Elemental correspondences are some of the first topics covered in most introductory pagan texts. I love the elemental system: it's a...
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Michelle
- Oct 19, 2018
- 1 min
Friday Flora, Foggy Flora
We're finally settling into our new home, and life is beginning to assume a steadier rhythm after two whirlwind months. This morning I...
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Michelle
- Feb 15, 2018
- 1 min
She Waits
The oak on the corner Clings to last year’s leaves, While all around her, chestnuts and maples Unfold tiny umbrellas of tender green. But...
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Michelle
- Feb 12, 2018
- 3 min
Perception and Creativity
It's amazing how you can walk past something without noticing it for days - or years - and then one day something about it catches your...
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Michelle
- Feb 8, 2018
- 2 min
Each Day a Ceremony
What we can relate to is what we see and walk among. Any new religion, any new way of seeing, will probably grow from the ground where we...
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Michelle Simkins
polytheist . writer . maker . witch
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