That is the title of a new essay found in the Depth and Breadth of Ancestral Airs blog. It explores the importance of rites of passage historically as well as something we should consider today as spiritually significant and worthy of reinstating in our lives.

This week The Compendium for Spirit Handling has featured some wonderful ritual species that include the common Beet, as well as Bur Marigold and Deer Fern, both formidable, and the intrepid Birch, one of the 21 sacred trees of the British Isles.

Tomorrow I will bring the week to a close with Chapter Six from Letters to the Unborn and a post on a modest species of mushroom in The Compendium.