<![CDATA[Carol - Acorn to Oak Ceremonies: Signature Storytelling - Heartfelt Officiating - Posts]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:53:31 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[February 14th, 2026]]>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:42:31 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/february-14th-2026May you feel all the love!
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]]><![CDATA[February 07th, 2026]]>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/february-07th-2026I had the honor of celebrating the life of a vibrant young man who blasted through this world like a shooting star. He lost his life to an accidental overdose, but in the short time he was here, he made a deep impact on the world around him.
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]]><![CDATA[January 23rd, 2026]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:22:11 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/january-23rd-2026Now is the perfect time to tuck in and tend to our roots with warmth, rest, and coziness, letting the alchemy percolate.
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]]><![CDATA[December 21st, 2025]]>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:14:55 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/december-21st-2025The ancient Deer Mother of old once flew through winter’s longest darkest night with the life-giving light of the sun in her horns. Unlike the male reindeer who sheds his antlers in winter, it is the doe who retains her antlers. It is she who leads the herds in winter. Ever since the early Neolithic, when the earth was much colder and reindeer more widespread, the female reindeer was venerated by northern people. She was the “life-giving mother”, the leader of the herds upon which they depended for survival, and they followed the reindeer migrations for milk, food, clothing and shelter.

Throughout the British Isles, Scandinavia, Russia, Siberia, across the land bridge of the Bering Strait, she was a revered spiritual figure associated with fertility, motherhood, regeneration and the rebirth of the sun (the theme of winter solstice). Her antlers were frequently depicted as the tree of life, carrying birds, the sun, moon and stars. They adorned shrines and altars, were buried in ceremonial graves and were worn as shamanic headdresses. Her image was etched in standing stones, woven into ceremonial cloth and clothing, cast in jewelry, painted on drums, and tattooed onto skin.

Across the northern world, it was the Deer Mother who took flight from the dark of the old year to bring light and life to the new. So this solstice, take a moment to look out from your warm cozy home into the cold of the darkening eve. And on the sacred night when the sun is reborn, look for the Deer Mother flying across starry skies, carrying the tree of life in her horns.
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]]><![CDATA[December 04th, 2025]]>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:45:15 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/december-04th-2025Oh, she's a beauty tonight. Gaze up at Mother Moon and soak up that radiance! Feeling full and grateful? Let her know. Need to release something you no longer need? Let her know. Want to just bask in the beauty? Good plan!
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]]><![CDATA[November 27th, 2025]]>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:29:54 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/november-27th-2025I'm grateful to all of you who bring vibrant color into my life and help me grow. I'm grateful for my celebrant practice that allows me the gift of doing what I love, helping people honor their milestones -rooting them into their histories- through ceremony. May each of you hold many things in your heart today that make you smile and feel ever so loved.
#enjoythepie
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]]><![CDATA[November 21st, 2025]]>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:36:02 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/november-21st-2025Let's embrace the waning of autumn with as much joy as this tree. (Kudos to the family down the block!) 
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]]><![CDATA[October 31st, 2025]]>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:33:02 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/october-31st-2025Happy Samhain! This weekend is the perfect time to honor your ancestors-those of blood and those of spirit. Gather those photos, make a special dish, pour your favorite beverage and sink into a delicious reminiscence.
​Thank your people for their legacies and soak up the wonder of being one of the results.
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]]><![CDATA[October 16th, 2025]]>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:49:23 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/october-16th-2025One half of my spirited couple enjoying the sail back from their wedding in a magical grove -
​high up in the deep woods of Basswood Island.
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]]><![CDATA[October 10th, 2025]]>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.acorntooakceremonies.com/posts/october-10th-2025The adventure begins! The traveling celebrant is on the move...
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