Winter Sowing with The Cailleach

Wild plants, native species, those that support biodiversity, are adapted to take care of themselves in their own spaces. Each one has its own history, has followed its own ancestors down the centuries, has its own friends and enemies. They are not pets, the Cailleach teaches. They are wild beings with winter traditions you know nothing about.  

Asklepios, Finest of Healers

To modern pagans, Asklepios is almost a forgotten god. Even among Hellenic pagans, his aid is not commonly sought and he receives few honors. To the ancient Greeks, however, the arrival of Asklepios was unreservedly welcome; his cult took hold immediately and grew quickly wherever it was introduced, making Asklepios a pan-Hellenic deity in a relatively short time. This was a god both wanted and needed–kind- hearted, helpful, and with a great interest in the welfare of humanity.

Winter Gifting

Even if the act of charitable giving is not explicitly described in ADF’s virtues, the virtues themselves provide support for acts of generosity. And there does seem to be a historical precedent for them – a precedent that stretches back to our earliest Indo-European pagan ancestors.