Category: insects

HALLOWEEN/MAY DAY

On the 31st of October It is Beltane here “Down Under” The sabbats are seasonal: so in the southern hemisphere it is Beltane (MayDay) In the northern hemisphere it is Samhain (Halloween) Beltane was a fertility festival where the villages would come together: This… Continue Reading “HALLOWEEN/MAY DAY”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the way… Continue Reading “Trees”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the way… Continue Reading “Trees”

MAGIC/QUANTUM PHYSICS

What we label as magic is actually quantum physics Einstein’s  E = mc2 I understood that time decrease with velocity in my teens (1960s) But it is thanks to Star Trek that I realized that matter and energy are interchangeable “Energy equals mass times… Continue Reading “MAGIC/QUANTUM PHYSICS”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the way… Continue Reading “Trees”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the way… Continue Reading “Trees”

IN DEFENSE OF CATS

8.4 BILLION HUMANS ARE CONTINUING TO CAUSE THE EXTINCTIONOF ALL OTHER LIFE But instead of implementing zero population growth we blame cats Since the 16th century, humans have driven at least 680 vertebrate species to extinction. Our cultural norms and attitudes cause us to… Continue Reading “IN DEFENSE OF CATS”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the way… Continue Reading “Trees”

MID WINTER

It is Mid Winter here -Yule Mid summer — Litha in the northern hemisphere. The Wheel Of The Year: pagan festivals celebrating the seasons:  solstices and equinoxes. When the Romans and Christianity took over they could not get rid of these festivals: So every… Continue Reading “MID WINTER”

Friday 13th

Decades ago I researched the “Inquisition” as part of a lecture I was giving on Wicca. After the emperor Constantine made Christianity the religion of Rome there was a meeting at Nicaea to decide what to put in the Bible and what to leave… Continue Reading “Friday 13th”