Druid of the PNW

Humble servant of the Woodland Spirit. Permaculture homesteading as part of a spiritual practice rooted in the living Earth. Located in SW Washington, Zone 8b.

[pnwdruid]

I’m not kidding. I will never go back to living in the city. Permaculture homesteading is dharma. Cities are not dharma. Cities are like cancerous tumors, sucking up all the resources around them until they’ve destroyed their host.

Cities are diametrically opposed to the Earth Mother. The earth beneath them is dead. The land spirits have departed, replaced by demons who fill the low vibrational void created by hyper consumerism and despair.

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What beauty there is in the change of the seasons! I may be a few years shy of 40, but I feel as thought I am in the Spring of this incarnation of my existence here.

I was in drifting aimlessly through a dark Winter for the first part of my life, slowly rotting from the disease of consumerism. Then I arrived in this beautiful forest, and the land awakened something in me. Ancestral blood memories called out from the ancient past, and suddenly I finally knew why I incarnated here at the end of this Kali Yuga.

I am here to bond with the Earth Mother, rekindle the ties to my ancestral bloodline, commune with the spirits of the land, and do everything I can to shepherd lost souls back to their purpose as Stewards of Never-ending Creation.

Blessings to you all, especially those tending to the holy Earth, wife of the Most High, mother of the Storm.

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Ancestor worship is a key part of paganism that, like animism, is often neglected by modern pagans.

It’s hard to connect with your ancestors if you know nothing about them, which is why I believe it is important to study our family trees and the ancient history of our people as far back as we possibly can.

This is also why I argue in favor of folkish religion: maintaining the spiritual traditions of our ancestors instead of adopting foreign faiths. Folkishness helps to ensure that our ancestral traditions carry on.

Adopting the faiths of people we have no connection to severs our ancestral line and scatters our cultural heritage to the wind. This is how people lose their cultural identity.

Praise the Gods. Serve the landvættir. Honor the ancestors. Pass on our traditions.

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Performed our first blót today. Thanksgiving seemed like an appropriate time for this ritual. One chicken for Cernunnos, and one for the Woodland Spirit, the landvættr of the forest we dwell in. We are so grateful for the lives that will nourish us as part of tomorrow's feast, and we wanted to honor them accordingly.

[pnwdruid]

We cannot fulfill our sacred role as Stewards of the Earth if we sit idly inside, enraptured by the scrying mirrors no one seems able to live without anymore. The human body was designed to move and create, and it is only in this manner that we can tend to Creation.

Metal prints/posters available in my Mushrooms collection on Displate

[pnwdruid]

Do not take too many shortcuts with machines. There is a great deal of meditation to do while swinging an axe.

[pnwdruid]

It takes a village

I believe [permaculture] homesteading is the Earth Path ideal. It would be even better if it was a community effort.

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It’s hard work, but it is fulfilling and meaningful. I am so grateful to have an awesome wife who aligns with my views and shares my passion for our way of life, because we don’t know anyone else who does.

This is a shame, because a small farmstead village could achieve so much more. I dream of establishing such a thing, and often ponder how it would ideally work.

Perhaps I’ll expound on that sometime.

[ulvenblod]

Make sure your tribe doesn't just consist of dead weight with a lot of ideals.

Ideals don't feed or protect your family.

[pnwdruid]

I’m tired of modernity — tired of its cities and screens. We are so disconnected from the land. We are spiritually bankrupt.

All moderns care about is the pursuit of leisure and vices; their identities formed entirely around the mundane. This is why they don’t feel fulfilled.

The human body was not designed for sitting and consumerism. We are designed to create and commune with the Gods.

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Bitsy is sick with sour crop and has to isolate. She gets lonely in the garage, so we’re wheeling her around the house with us to keep her company. :)

[pnwdruid]

Communities desperately need to return to feeding themselves locally instead of depending on mega corporations for sustenance, and nothing is more local than growing/hunting/fishing your food yourself.

Let's work together to reclaim our food sovereignty.

[pnwdruid]

The sheer amount of mushrooms on our land tells me we are doing a good job of healing it. We honor the Gods by being good stewards of Creation.

Prints available in my Mushrooms photo series on Displate

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[zinziee]

[pnwdruid]

If these images awaken a profound longing deep within you, then you might be my people.

[pnwdruid]

Blessed Samhain in the Sacred Grove. Our place of worship.

Prints and posters on my Displate

[pnwdruid]

Permaculture farming can be an act of devotion. By living in harmony with the Earth - giving back as much as we take from her - we become closer to the Divine.

We cannot sustain ourselves with the destructive modern food system and be at harmony with the Earth.

Prints available in my new Mushrooms photo series on Displate

[pnwdruid]

Growing your own food in harmony with the Earth can be a deeply-spiritual experience.

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All home-grown. It's so satisfying to grow your own food. It doesn't just provide superior nourishment to the body, but nourishes mind and soul as well.