A Wheel of Deepening Land Healing through Sacred Gardens and Refugia, Part II: Radiating Rituals and Sending Energy Outward

When I first started writing about the idea of refugia over a decade ago, the idea where we would intentionally create nature sanctuaries, pockets of life where the land could flourish, grow, and be protected from everything that is going on outside. We would intentionally create and protect places where nature was not under assault by chemical warfare or extraction, but instead create places of deep healing, love, and connection. For the last ten years, here at the Druid’s Garden homestead, we have worked to create such a sacred space–a little sanctuary of five acres sitting on a broader landscape that is truely at war with the living earth. Maybe it isn’t that bad where you live, but here where I live, I am on the front lines of the extraction zone, and it often feels that way–being surrounded by fossil fuel extractive activities like fracking, mining, mountaintop removal, deforestation, and more. But I think many of us are feeling this more broadly. As I write this, there is a war…