Styling and photography by TRICIA SAROYA
This is where we first meet Shakespeare’s Titania: deep in the ancient forest, lying on her floral bower of sunny-hued oxlip and nodding violet, surrounded by wild thyme. A mist creeps beneath the luscious...
Ilinčić’s fascination with Earth-based spiritualities, religions based on worship of nature, began when she was a teenager growing up in the foothills of the Italian Alps. She always had a fascination with history, and growing up among such beautiful natural landscapes
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As an act of holiday charity, I beg you to put aside everything America has taught you about the Krampus, especially any thoughts connected to that mirthless horror-comedy that blighted cineplexes last year.
Though...
Photography by Lena Fox Art
Shower Meditation
No fancy ingredients are needed. This meditation should help ease tension. I have found that during the equinoxes, when the veil is thinnest, tension and memories of ancestors are particularly vivid. The veil thins...
Samhain, known as the Witches’ New Year, is one of the most anticipated and celebrated pagan holidays. It has an energy that sets it apart from the other sabbats of the Wheel of the Year, an annual cycle of...
Illustration by Guinevere von Sneeden
• A path where she’s quite certain there was no path before.
• A delicious bright orange ruffled mushroom that is savory and delicious when cooked.*
• Deer, birds, squirrels, and other forest creatures. (She steps as...
My introduction to nature was at my childhood home a top a mountain in West Virginia with thirty-five acres of woods to call my playground. Exploring those woods brought countless hours of delight as my siblings and I discovered...
Imagine a candlelit table. A jack-o’-lantern sits at the center, his glowing grin flashing onto plates full of autumnal fare: treacle tarts, pumpkin rolls, butternut squash, stews, puddings, and a great roasted pumpkin.
Your hands are still sticky from an...
For years I used to think magic was all just made-up fairy tales and stories our parents tell us when we’re young. I would dream of fairy parties deep in the woods or mysterious treasure maps turning up in...
Photography by Mark Callander
Somewhere long ago, in a shady forest pool or a high mountain lake, a woman hovered her palm flat above the water’s surface. Whether this was so she could to meet her twin in the water’s...