Hope y'all had a lovely Solstice. Midwinter is such a special time ✨ Happy Solstice, everyone! #pagansky #midwinter #yule

Winter Graduation at the University of Exeter in full flow @uniofexeternews.bsky.social 🎓 Delighted to officiate as Chaplain today - so lovely to see proud and happy students be celebrated for their hard work 🎉 #chaplaincy #HE #highereducation #wintergraduation Congratulations all!

#Christmas has arrived at the #Museum🎄 Thank you to everyone who dropped in to make decorations for our film-themed #Christmastree or contributed their favourite Christmas #films! Tell us about your favourite here & we'll add it: forms.office.com/e/MdcqnRSbcR @thepaganchaplain.bsky.social

Fascinating! www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #pagansky #wicca #witchsky #OBOD #Celtic #linguistics

Local happening 👇Today at St Thomas Library 😊

It’s that time of year again. Advent and waiting for the light to return. So I thought I’d post an image of my work a day until the solstice. Here’s The Green Knight, a panel I made in 2022 but it’s a subject that has entranced since I first studied the poem at Stirling University in the 1980s.

Lights... Camera.... Christmas! 🎬 Help us decorate our #museum #Christmastree🎄 Drop in on 8th December, 2:30pm-5pm to make your own film-themed decorations and join us afterwards at 5pm for a mince pie, festive drink, and a tour featuring our #Christmas display! #filmsky #museumsky #cinema

Happy Samhain, everyone! 🎃 Enjoyed a beautiful ceremony in #Glastonbury at #ChaliceWellGardens. We felt the relatively new peace pole was particularly pertinent #maypeaceprevail 🕊️ Samhain blessings /|\ #druidsky #witchsky #pagansky #heathensky #Samhain #AllHallowsEve

Asking for help 🙏 I have a short list of "nature and traditional" events in/near #Exeter for our students: www.exeter.ac.uk/students/cha... Would love to add more - know of other #pagan #nature-based #traditional events? Be great to get them connected #pagansky #witchsky #heathensky #druidsky /|\

Oooh spooky stuff 👇 👻 My friends at the Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social in #Exeter are running a FREE kids' workshop today and a #Halloween discovery trail throughout #half-term 🎃 There's a lunchtime talk for adults, too - about #dragons and #monsters 👏 Yey! #pagansky #witchsky #druidsky

There is something really special about old buildings and ancient sites. So much history to explore and to be inspired by. Recommend this #art #workshop to anyone in #Exeter #Devon 👇 Dr Sarah Spencer is a skilled workshop leader and her art is inspired by nature and heritage. #druidsky #paganism /|\

Hi 👋 #Devon peeps, you don't want to miss this 👇 Autumn Ceilidh plus apple pressing and a harvest meal! See you there! #druidsky #Exeter #pagansky #harvest #autumn #ceilidh @lightbearlane.org @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @exeterfood.bsky.social @exetercycling.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social /I\

Had a lovely evening at the Exeter Hindu Cultural Centre celebrating Navratri ✨🪷✨ and learning more about #hinduism and worldview. Great food and dancing with colleagues from @exeter.ac.uk 🪔🎉 #HappyNavratri

“A beautifully written book of traces and absences.” Many thanks to Stuart Kelly and Scotland on Sunday for this thoughtful review of Upon A White Horse. Great to share the pages with @megaheid.bsky.social

🥳🍾The Argyle Street ash has been crowned UK #TreeOfTheYear 2025 🎉🏆 The 1st tree in Glasgow to be protected by a tree preservation order, it's adored & cared for by the community. Thanks to David Treanor for nominating, & players of People's #PostcodeLottery for their support of the contest.

This review really resonates👇 @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social picks up on Spirituality of Place and, perhaps most importantly, identifies "a phenomenology of Britain’s sacred landscape that is *performed* as much as it is known or understood." Can't wait to read "Upon A White Horse" #druidsky /I\

My review of Ayoush Lazikani’s ‘The Medieval Moon’, in the latest @historytoday.com

Druid Prayer for Peace: Deep within the still centre of my being, may I find peace. Silently within the quiet of the grove, may I share peace. Gently within the greater circle of humankind, may I radiate peace. May there be peace throughout the whole world. #druidsky /I\ #InternationalDayofPeace

#FolkyFriday Hazel nuts were believed to be a source of wisdom and poetic inspiration. Nuts fell into a sacred pool from nine surrounding hazel trees and were eaten by a Salmon - both Welsh & Irish folklore have references to the ancient Salmon of Knowledge. 🎨Anon & Judith Shaw

Looking forward to hosting this #HeritageOpenDays event at our new Multifaith Centre today 👇Darren Davis, project manager for building works, will give a short talk & tour at lunchtime about sustainability & multi-faith use of the space. @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @helenhartstein.bluesky.social

Autumn is here and that means... Freshers' Week! Campus is buzzing @uniofexeternews.bsky.social Have a great start of term, everyone! /I\ @croftspeaks.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social 🍃🍂💚 #chaplaincy #druidsky #university #freshersweek!

Been out to explore #StoverPark near #Exeter. Lovely green space and lake full of wildlife - and the nature education centre is fabulous! Particularly enjoyed the poetry walk linking art and nature - beautiful 🍃🍂 #TedHughes #nature #druidsky /I\ #witchsky #heathensky @lightbearlane.org

Our final walk of the Dartmoor Outdoor Festival was a #storywalk, guided jointly by storyteller Helen Bruce & festival co-director Hannah Durdin. Helen shared tales of the Weaver of Dean Combe, Vixana the witch & the group spent time exploring #Merrivale. dartmoorpreservation.co.uk/merrivale-st...

@42acresretreat.bsky.social Just reading about you in #CountryLiving - love what you guys do and look forward to following your posts 🍃🍂

We love this tiny illustration of a Bridgettine nun engrossed in a book! She can be found in the border of Sister Mary Dominic's vow in the Syon Abbey archive. 📷 EUL MS 389/COM/2/2/3/4 (date: 1924-27) #TinyTuesday #SyonAbbey #Nuntastic #Archives

Our latest edition of "Letters from Lightbear Lane" is out: mailchi.mp/c15e69a0e5db... Don't forget to subscribe ✉️ @exeterlibrary.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org @dianafmoore.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social @visitdevon.bsky.social @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social @thepaganchaplain.bsky.social

Autumn in the air this morning 😊 Found this magical autumn moment 👇 #fantasy #druidsky Bet you got loads of LOTR things @bdcmuseum.bsky.social 🍃🍂

Gandalf Visiting the Shire... 🍂

Self Care September - Day 1: Find time for self-care. It’s not selfish, it’s essential actionforhappiness.org/self-care-se... #SelfCareSeptember

Do you all have your own favorites for different phases? This blogpost also contains a video intro in ASL. 👌 #WitchSky #PaganSky #DruidSky #HerbalTea #WitchMadness #KitchenWitchery blog.mountainroseherbs.com/herbs-for-th...

I love a good #dragon! @bdcmuseum.bsky.social my favourite one is still Fafnir in the 1966 German Nibelungen film. Or maybe Fuchur in #NeverendingStory? Fantasy and film fans in #Exeter #Devon, this is for you 👇 @visitdevon.bsky.social #fantasysky #druidsky #heathensky

At the end of a stay with my grandmother, she would always send me off with a blessing and the reminder to look after myself - she used this metaphor of the empty cup 👇 What are you doing for #SelfCareSeptember? #druidsky /I\ #witchsky #humanism #heathensky #grandmotherwisdom

Great time celebrating 🪷✨Ganesh Chaturti✨🪷 @rammuseum.bsky.social yesterday! There is so much to learn and wisdom to be shared - thank you to the #ExeterHinduCulturalCentre for such a warm welcome and colourful evening 🪔 @helenhartstein.bluesky.social @lightbearlane.org #GaneshChaturti #hinduism

It’s publication day!!! Domination is officially out in the world, in all good bookshops! www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Domina...

Spending time at our #allotment always makes me happy. We got the allotment less than two years ago and boy has it made a difference to my #wellbeing. I love watching things grow 💚 And such a bountiful harvest today /I\ #gardening #druidsky #pagansky

This one is new to me 👇 @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social How about replacing the bees with 🐝tokens - sounds like an artistic project in the making to me @field-system.bsky.social #bees #druidsky /I\

Love this idea 👇 Some foods are beautiful to look at. Hope we get to see some examples from the workshop @lightbearlane.org! It's free, too, with only a small admin fee of £3.00 😍 There must be some #artsky people from #Exeter here - go book now! Students very welcome @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

🍃🌳🍃"Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake. Some are quite wide awake, and a few are, well, ah, well getting Entish." 📖The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien #BookWormSat #FolkloreSunday

Shooting stars are somehow really magical #druidsky #pagansky ✨/I\ #sturgeonmoon #grainmoon Where is the best place to observe the sky on campus @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @bdcmuseum.bsky.social ? #Exeter

Sometimes a tree just invites you to snooze! #ThickTrunkTuesday

How fabulous -congratulations! We'll have to organise a student outing when it's ready 👏🎉

Loving this 👇 @wtscotsocial.bsky.social Bring on our storytelling traditions - and who doesn't like a bit of dressing-up? #bard #nature

Happy Lughnasad, everyone! Been out in a local woodland for a little ceremony to attune to this time of #firstfruits and the beginning of #harvest🌾🌽 Magical moments in this cool and calm place under the trees 🌳🌲/I\ As a special treat, we had HiveMind Mead🐝 #druidsky @oldways.bsky.social #heathensky

Fascinating to read about this aspect of Ukrainian #history 👇Babas are 800-year-old statues - what can we learn from them? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... #ancestors #pagansky #druidsky @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @tamsintheshed.bsky.social

We’re spending the rest of this week bathing in the beauty of Emma Thistlethwaite’s installation before it comes down on Sunday

You can hear me talking about Europe's last pagans from time signature 10:26 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I absolutely love Ambrin's approach to art ambrin.co.uk and the thoughtfulness that has gone into curating the #art #exhibition at our #Multifaith Centre. Great chat about connecting with the land #placemaking #nature 💚 Last day is this Sat, 26th July - go see it! /I\ #druidsky #pagansky #artsky

The #Multifaith centre is hosting a very special #exhibition: from 24-26 July, we'll be home to "From Land to Hand". Curious? Read more here 👉 southasianheritage.org.uk/events/from-... and join us at @uniofexeternews.bsky.social #SouthAsianHeritageMonth @visitdevon.bsky.social @exeterobserver.org