ritual
Aug 14, 2026
The Line Nothing Crosses
A short account of the salt circle, a protective boundary drawn against unwelcome spirits, and why so many unrelated traditions arrived at the same substance and the same shape.
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Aug 12, 2026
The Tree That Watches Back
A journal account of the iroko, the great West African hardwood said to house a watchful spirit, and the offerings still left at its roots by those who must fell or pass beneath it.
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Aug 2, 2026
The Stone That Turns Three Ways
A visit to Newgrange and its carved triple spiral, and an honest reckoning with how much of what we say about the symbol is memory and how much is invention.
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Aug 1, 2026
The Fire That Must Not Go Out
A journal entry on the old, near-universal duty of keeping a fire alive through the night, from the Vestal flame in Rome to the smoored peats of the Scottish Highlands.
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