On Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich participated in a conference call to conservative Christian supporters. In a statistical tie with fellow contender Mitt Romney in the upcoming Florida primary, Gingrich is trying to win the support of as many evangelicals and religious conservatives as possible, a demographic that Romney has had a hard time winning over. During the call, which had around 1000 participants, and was moderated by Jim “Cracking Da Vinci’s Code” Garlow, Gingrich called same-sex marriage a “fundamental violation of our…
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Modern Paganism’s Role in Interfaith
The Wild Hunt24 Jan 2012 | 12:41 pmWhile the concept of interfaith, constructive interaction between representatives of different religions, is truly ancient, its modern conception was largely birthed by the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions (re-dubbed the Parliament of the World’s Religions in more recent times) where representatives of “Eastern” religions (Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism, Buddhism) created lasting contacts with representatives from the “Western” traditions of Christianity and Judaism. The star of that parliament was Swami Vivekananda, credited by many for bringing Yoga to… -
Quick Note: Open Source vs Closed Source Faiths
The Wild Hunt27 Jan 2012 | 2:01 pmIn a recent editorial for the Huffington Post Josh Schrei argues that the real difference between Hinduism and other world religions is that Hinduism is an “open source” faith, and that most of the others are “closed source” in their orientation.The logo of the Open Source Initiative.“However, the key point of differentiation between Hinduism and these other faiths is not polytheism vs. monotheism. The key differentiation is that “Hinduism” is Open Source and most other faiths are Closed Source. ”Open source is an approach to the design,… -
REVIEW: Patricia Monaghan's Alaskan Creation
Medusa Coils24 Jan 2012 | 5:12 pmAlaska by Heart: Recipes for Independence by Sarah Pagen, a novel created by Patricia Monaghan (McRoy & Blackburn) trade paperback, 186 or so pages.In a riot of misspellings, malaprops, mixed metaphors, grammatical goofs, garbled history, and screwy science, Alaska by Heart: Recipes for Independence by Sarah Pagen created by Patricia Monaghan presents a sort of autobiography of the FICTIONAL -
Correspondences for Saturday
PaganNews.com Featured Content.28 Jan 2012 | 4:02 amLight Black candles. Burn incense of Peperwort, assodilious, black poppy seed. Saturday is ruled by Saturn, and is a good day to work with duties, responsibilities, protection, finding families, works of magic, buildings, meditation, life, doctrines.
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Quick Note: Open Source vs Closed Source Faiths
27 Jan 2012 | 2:01 pmIn a recent editorial for the Huffington Post Josh Schrei argues that the real difference between Hinduism and other world religions is that Hinduism is an “open source” faith, and that most of the others are “closed source” in their orientation.The logo of the Open Source Initiative.“However, the key point of differentiation between Hinduism and these other faiths is not polytheism vs. monotheism. The key differentiation is that “Hinduism” is Open Source and most other faiths are Closed Source. ”Open source is an approach to the design,… -
Gay Marriage and Other “Pagan Behaviors”
26 Jan 2012 | 7:04 pmOn Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich participated in a conference call to conservative Christian supporters. In a statistical tie with fellow contender Mitt Romney in the upcoming Florida primary, Gingrich is trying to win the support of as many evangelicals and religious conservatives as possible, a demographic that Romney has had a hard time winning over. During the call, which had around 1000 participants, and was moderated by Jim “Cracking Da Vinci’s Code” Garlow, Gingrich called same-sex marriage a “fundamental violation of our… -
Nicol Williamson 1936 – 2011
26 Jan 2012 | 12:26 pmIt has been announced to the public that actor Nicol Williamson died on December 16th, 2011, from esophageal cancer. Williamson was a mercurial actor who brought a tempestuous fearlessness and unpredictability to his many roles. While he starred in high-profile films like Robin and Marian, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and The Exorcist III, he is perhaps best known for playing Merlin in John Boorman’s Excalibur. A retelling of Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, the film was praised for its visuals, was a modest box-office hit, and went on to become a cult favorite in the decades… -
The Solace of Vodou for Haitian-Americans
25 Jan 2012 | 1:15 pmAfter the 2010 Haitian earthquake there was quite a bit of attention on the religion of Vodou, though largely that attention was not positive. Immediately after the quake there were triumphalist smears from figures like Pat Robertson, and allegations that it was Vodou that held Haitians back from progress. While there were emerging “Vodou voices” rising up in defense of the religion, most notably Max Beauvoir, but more often than not the centrality of Vodou to many Haitians was often ignored. So it is a breath of fresh air to read Silvana Ordonez’s piece on Vodou among… -
Modern Paganism’s Role in Interfaith
24 Jan 2012 | 12:41 pmWhile the concept of interfaith, constructive interaction between representatives of different religions, is truly ancient, its modern conception was largely birthed by the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions (re-dubbed the Parliament of the World’s Religions in more recent times) where representatives of “Eastern” religions (Hinduism, Taoism, Jainism, Buddhism) created lasting contacts with representatives from the “Western” traditions of Christianity and Judaism. The star of that parliament was Swami Vivekananda, credited by many for bringing Yoga to…
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Medusa Coils
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REVIEW: Patricia Monaghan's Alaskan Creation
24 Jan 2012 | 5:12 pmAlaska by Heart: Recipes for Independence by Sarah Pagen, a novel created by Patricia Monaghan (McRoy & Blackburn) trade paperback, 186 or so pages.In a riot of misspellings, malaprops, mixed metaphors, grammatical goofs, garbled history, and screwy science, Alaska by Heart: Recipes for Independence by Sarah Pagen created by Patricia Monaghan presents a sort of autobiography of the FICTIONAL -
From Selena Fox: Help for NC Pagans in Church-State Conflict
21 Jan 2012 | 11:54 amI received the following by email from Selena Fox of Circle Sanctuary, who requests that it be shared:Please send blessings of Protection, Healing & Well-being to Ginger Strivelli of Weaverville, North Carolina & her family.Ginger is co-founding priestess of The Appalachian Pagan Alliance. Her writings have appeared in CIRCLE Magazine and other publications. She lives with her husband and six -
Events Coil: January 20 - February 28
17 Jan 2012 | 1:51 pmSilver Serpent, whose name usually appears as poster of our Events Coils, will be away from this blog for a presently unknown length of time. She and I usually compile the Events together, as it is a big task. However, in her absence I will be doing this alone. To make this a little easier for me--and possibly even easier for readers--I'm placing under the "Ongoing" section some of the items -
A Goddess 'First' From Australia
13 Jan 2012 | 10:39 pmIn their just-published book, Gaia Emerging: Goddess Beliefs and Practices in Australia, authors Patricia Rose and Tricia Szirom include the results of their large survey of people involved specifically in Goddess spirituality. Patricia Rose was nice enough to let me preview a few pages and I want to tell you about it because, as far as I know, it is the first book to survey this many people-- -
Wonderful Way to Start New Year
2 Jan 2012 | 11:13 pmSculpture of Masika Szilagyi, mother of Z Budapest, who wrote the words in the video. Thank you to the videographer, Aphrodisiastes for posting this video from YouTube to Facebook.
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Correspondences for Saturday
28 Jan 2012 | 4:02 amLight Black candles. Burn incense of Peperwort, assodilious, black poppy seed. Saturday is ruled by Saturn, and is a good day to work with duties, responsibilities, protection, finding families, works of magic, buildings, meditation, life, doctrines. -
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Article: Building Community Through Corporate Regalia
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Article: Someone to Catch my Drift
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Today's Herb: Rue
28 Jan 2012 | 4:02 amDescription: Evergreen perennial shrub with a woody base and stems that branch up to 3 ft. Aromatic green leaves resemble parsley and are dotted with oil glands. Small pungent yellow flowers appear in summer. Uses: Use leaves from flowering plant fresh or dried in shade. Leaves used to treat...
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The Gods Are Bored
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Weighing in on SOPA and PIPA
26 Jan 2012 | 7:33 amWelcome to "The Gods Are Bored," the sole intellectual property of me, Anne Johnson! If you quote more than ten percent of this post, I am going to tell the government I've been ripped off, and they'll shut down Google.Well, I don't know. That seems pretty extreme to me, but this is what I hear through the grapevine, i.e., the Internet. There's some legislation about intellectual property that could have far-reaching implications for our "business as usual" here in cyberspace.Theft of intellectual property is no laughing matter, because people do work hard on music, art, books, newspaper… -
When Abortion, Mormons, and Gay Marriage Are All That Matters
5 Jan 2012 | 7:38 amWelcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" It's 2012, the Apocalypse year! Well, another Apocalypse year anyway. If we had experienced all the Apocalypses we have been promised over time, only the buzzards would remain. Therefore we forge ahead with the slow attrition that comes to any capitalist society where greed is not curbed by common sense.I would be rejoicing over the choices of moron offered in the Iowa caucuses if I had any faith in our sitting president. Alas, it took less than four years for all of his platitudes to lose their hot air -- and his decision to waive habeus corpus for… -
The Lords and Ladies and Wenches of Misrule
3 Jan 2012 | 5:03 pmI was in the Mummer's Parade. It was a Saturnalia of the first stripe (at least our portion of the parade was). I felt like I was participating in something ancient, very ancient, a rebellion against rules, and propriety, and decency, and the powers-that-be. The weather was beautiful. I spent more than half the day dancing in the sunlight, surrounded by people who know how to have fun.The official t.v. camera did not catch our whole act, but in the clip below, if you don't blink, at 19 minutes you'll see a German barmaid in blond braids run past, smiling up a storm. Guess who?Happy 2012! I… -
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Misrule Triumphant
1 Jan 2012 | 7:45 pmIt is without a single jot of humility that I announce that the 2012 Comic Brigade Champion in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade is ... the TWO STREET STOMPERS!We won.
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An Eye in the Storm—Victor Anderson’s Memorial
25 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pmI wrote this piece shortly after Victor Anderson’s death, in October 2001. I am reprinting it here because Victor’s name came up in conversation with a friend this morning, and I realized that I want the story of my experience at his memorial to be available to readers here as well. Things just hadn’t been [...] -
Brigid Poetry Festival, Year Seven
25 Jan 2012 | 12:11 pmHow did that happen? How has it been seven years since we started doing a Silent Poetry Reading for the Goddess Brigid (patron of poets, healers and midwives) on our blogs? The answer to this question is generally uninteresting to anyone save the questioner, so I will spare you my thoughts about the passage of [...] -
From Samhain to Solstice
23 Nov 2011 | 10:13 amIt feels like it’s time to take down the Day of the Dead altar. I am not aware of any hard and fast rule about this, but just last night as I added more wood to the fire and glanced up at the mantle, I had the distinct impression that things had to change. The [...] -
Dreams for the Harvest – My Fall Newsletter
3 Sep 2011 | 2:31 pmLike a very slow-moving clock, I aspire to create quarterly email newsletters but somehow only manage to get out two per year. Still, that does not deter me from calling them Quarterly Newsletters! Aim high, as I always tell my kids. Earlier today I sent out my Fall Newsletter, available to read here. Highlighted in the email [...] -
On Relationships: Beware the Fig Newton Syndrome
20 Aug 2011 | 2:32 pmDuring a break-up, it is natural to sift through your memories to see if there were early warning signs that the marriage was in trouble. This is an understandable process, as our minds try through hindsight to make logical sense of things. It is a way to deal with the pain of having something so [...]
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Chess, Goddess and Everything
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2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival
27 Jan 2012 | 8:21 pmGM Hou Yifan is currently in first place after R4! Hooray for the ladies! Top female standings after R4: 1GMHou YifanCHN26053.52900.0 11GMDzagnidze NanaGEO25353.52654.0 14GMKoneru HumpyIND25893.02729.0 15GMPolgar JuditHUN27103.02727.0 33GMKosintseva NadezhdaRUS25373.02459.0 45IMMuzychuk AnnaSLO25802.52585.0 52IMMuzychuk MariyaUKR24832.52535.0 56GMZhu -
2012 Tata Steel
27 Jan 2012 | 7:31 pmWhere the ladies are after R11. Group B ladies aren't doing very well, period. Group C - two ladies (Elizabeth Paetz and Tania Sachdev) are at 50%. The final round will be on Sunday, January 29th. Group B 1.Harikrishna, P.8 2.L'Ami, E. Motylev, A.7½ 4.Bruzon, L.6½ 5.Reinderman, D. Tiviakov, S.6 7.Nyzhnik, I.5½ 8.Ernst, S. Potkin, V. Timman, J.5 11.Lahno, K. Vocaturo, D.4 13.Cmilyte, V. -
2012 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival
26 Jan 2012 | 7:18 pmTop female standings in the Masters Group after R3 (256 players): 3 GMHou YifanCHN26053.03311.0 8 GMPolgar JuditHUN27102.52789.0 14GMKoneru HumpyIND25892.52751.0 18IMMuzychuk AnnaSLO25802.52693.0 20IMZatonskih AnnaUSA25062.52625.0 25GMDzagnidze NanaGEO25352.52496.0 34GMCramling PiaSWE24912.02632.0 39IMKrush IrinaUSA24672.02604.0 50GMStefanova -
Naughty, Naughty Cross!
25 Jan 2012 | 10:19 pmWere some of the carvings Sheela na-gigs? Did Old Satan's Daughter do a number on Father Blake the way she did to "Reverend Lee" as sung by the fabulous Roberta Flack? And what an oxymoron - a "pagan cross." LOL! Archaeologists uncover mystery of over-zealous priest, fairies and a buried pagan cross Search is on for legendary Wicklow cross which vanished 60 years ago By KERRY O'SHEA, -
2012 Tata Steel
25 Jan 2012 | 8:35 pmI'm watching an excellent Nova special on PBS right now, "Masterpiece," about the painting that might be a previously unknown Leonardo DaVinci drawing! Absolutely fascinating... I'm learning a lot about the world of art experts and fraudulent works of art -- how people try to sniff out frauds and how the fraudsters try to fool the experts. Excited -- my purchases have started to arrive.
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A Weblog for Our Mother God
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Eckhart Tolle
22 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pmI have read about Eckhart Tolle and his philosophy. Apparently many people find it appealing. However, something about it is disturbing to me. Would you please comment on whether his ideas are compatible with the Deanic/Filianic Faith or not and why. Thank you, Rev. Madria Georgia Honored Madria Georgia, we cannot claim to be in any way experts on the writings of Herr Tolle, although we have encountered the name before and done a little research. Essentially the work seems to be rather similar to many New Age writers who take bits of the more "airy" aspects of world traditions and stick them… -
On Using a Statue of Kuan Yin
19 Jan 2012 | 1:42 pmAnnalinde Matichei wrote the following as part of a discussion on worshiping the Daughter in the form of Kuan Yin: This is an interesting question. I have a statue of Thousand Hand Kuan Yin as my main Altar-piece. Do I "worship Kuan Yin"? What would that mean? I do not see her according to Buddhist doctrine - though I do believe that she refused Deity until all being was saved "even to the last blade of grass" - which is just another way of putting the Daughter's Taking on of Fate that we celebrate at Luciad (the Feast of Lights). I certainly do not believe she was the daughter of a king who… -
Some of the Other Angels
12 Jan 2012 | 7:57 pmMany devotees of Dea are familiar with the names of the Seven "Planetary" Janyati. However, many of us have also heard mention of other Janati. I would imagine that there are many Janyati whose names we do not know. However, I would be interested in seeing a list of the names and characteristics of some of the other Janyati whose names are known to Aristasians. Thank you, Rt. Rev. Georgia B. Cobb The Seven Great Janyati are of course the primary ones, but there are several others. While we do not have an exhaustive list, some of the more important are: The three Werdes: Sai Maia, Sai Werde… -
Who "Borrowed" Epiphany?
6 Jan 2012 | 1:51 amThe High Feast of the Epiphany of God the Daughter falls on the 12th of Herthe (6th of January). Surely worshipers of Our Mother God "borrowed" this from Christianity? No indeed - it is exactly the other way about. Learn more about the Feast of Epiphany here. -
"Little Nativity"
5 Jan 2012 | 12:23 pmHerthe 11th (January 5th) is Duodecima - the Twelfth Day of Nativity. Herthe 12th (January 6th) is the High Feast of the Epiphany, popularly known as Princesses' Day. Epiphany, the showing-forth of the new-born Daughter of Dea is often called Little Nativity, and is one of the most joyful and important festivals of the year. Read more about it here.
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The Wigglian Way Pagan Podcast
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Episode 94
8 Jan 2012 | 5:55 pmLet me tell you a joke... Knock, Knock. Who's there? Auntie. Auntie Who? Auntie Bunnie. Auntie Bunnie? What? Oh no. Funny story. Mojo was on his computer...probably practicing his guitar maybe...writing his thesis in Theban. He was doing something intense in any case. Sparrow was on the way home from the Mall. It was imperative that she got home and utilised the cosmetic face mask that she just bought. Music was playing on the radio and Hubby was telling some story. Sparrow's phone rings, "Squirt, we've got a situation"...well something like that. It was filled with a… -
Episode 93
31 Dec 2011 | 3:38 pmHappy New Year! Thanks for downloading the show, we are so glad that you did. You have made 2011 another great year, here at The Wigglian Way. Tonight, we look back on the year and we talk about New Year's Resolutions! You first heard about this in Episode 72 and now here in Episode 93, it's done.... Misanthrope Press has released Etched Offerings: Voices from the Cauldron of Story, now available in hard copy or ebook! Tonight's feature album is Vinland Saga (2003) by Leaves' Eyes. We crank it up a notch with Farewell Proud Men, New Found Land and we end the show with Twilight Sun. During our… -
Episode 92
18 Dec 2011 | 10:35 pmEpisode 92 is dedicated to the memory of Danelle Dragonetti aka. WinterHawk. WinterHawk was the founder of WPBN; the Wiccan Pagan Broadcast Network, founder and co-host of Full Circle the first online pagan program that I ever heard. Long before there were podcasts, there was WinterHawk and Full Circle. She was a musician and recording engineer and a pagan media pioneer. Tonight's first music set is also dedicated to WinterHawk. Dionysus by WychKraft and Hymn to Herne by Sooj, both songs featuring WinterHawk as both player and producer. Thank you, Danelle, you blazed a trail… -
Episode 91
22 Nov 2011 | 10:40 pmHello, leave the lights turned off, you are about to listen to Episode 91 of The Wigglian Way. Tonight, it's all about the Darkness. Thank you for downloading the show, we hope that you enjoy it. Tonight's feature album, Wild Soul (2009) by Cernunnos Rising. We play Hear It With My Heart and For Those Who Brought Us Here. We end the show with Soul Journey. Also played on tonight's show Without My Shadow by Heather Alexander and Leaves' Eyes by Leaves' Eyes. Podkin Love! Thanks again for downloading the show. We know that this is a busy time of year for everyone, thank you for… -
Episode 90
27 Oct 2011 | 11:59 amHail Wigglians! Happy Samhain! Please enjoy with the lights turned low! Podkin Love!
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Aquila ka Hecate
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Waiting For The End Of The World
22 Jan 2012 | 7:24 amAbove the white noise of the fan you can hear the rumble ofthunder approaching. The greens and purples, reds and whites of the garden takeon a richer hue – all overlaid with a dark gravity which says more powerfullythan sound that the storm is coming, is coming, is close.I savour the taste and juiciness of a piece of charcoaledsteak in my mouth; chewing slowly, the ultimate act of one animal envelopinganother. My soul treasures the textures and seems to know that these days, too,will pass. Even as I add the lightly-boiled flesh of a plant person to myingestion, I am overwhelmed with joy at… -
Parsimony
11 Jan 2012 | 9:55 amI was listening to Terence McKennatalking on ethnobotany this morning (courtesy of the Psychedelic Salon), where he mentions Ayahuasca.Apart from the fascinating entheogenicproperties of this psychotropic brew, the discovery of it isfascinating in itself.We don't know who the first human wasto put psychotria viridis leavestogether with smashed stems of banisteriopsis caapi asa tea, but the awesome fact is that, amongst tens of thousands ofplant species in the Amazon jungle, these two in combination – andonly in combination – producean intense DMT trip. This trip which, somewhat… -
Not A Pretty Picture
10 Jan 2012 | 12:23 amAround eight o'clock at night and the quiet is veritably rent by a bellowing, ranting, screaming human voice. The man across the street is communicating with his female partner. The epithets are not very pleasant, either - if I had children in the house, I really wouldn't want them to hear most of the invective which flows from his mouth like pus from a wound.The yelling is really at full volume too; the entire street of maybe twenty households are treated to this son-sans-lumiere maybe twice a week- more likely three or four times in the summer. And this has been a feature of our lives… -
Terrapin Station
6 Jan 2012 | 7:24 amAs I've said many times, I am a slowlearner.Oh, not in all things: ask me to solvea fourth-degree differential equation and I'm there, with pencil.Calculate the apparent orbit of anewly-spotted comet? I'm your girl – or I was, alongside JackBennet and Johannes Wolterbeek-Muller, back in the day.But understand a relatively simple taleof incarnation and re-incarnation turned into a wonderful piece ofmusic by the Grateful Dead? I'm afraid not.At least, not for 35-odd years.Terrapin Station is the only Dead musicwhich really got to me. Probably because I bought it first in 1977,when I was… -
Savoir Faire
3 Jan 2012 | 8:41 pmA filling station and a pile of bones –legacy of a scam and an unsolved murder. A black woman driving an old blackMercedes – not driving it competently I must add; a threat.A nuclear power plant and a PR womanpatiently, laboriously explaining stuff to me – and me impatientlycutting her short, in the arrogance of my assumed knowledge.Those were the features of last night'sdreams, which I'm setting down here as a sort of neon sign for mymemory. I do keep a dream journal, but paging back through itsscrawled entries can be a bind sometimes. So I write it here. Forlast night my dreams took…
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Beth Owl's Daughter
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Beginning a Year of Celebration
27 Jan 2012 | 1:45 pmWith the New Moon and the beginning of the Year of the Water Dragon, I am launching a year of celebrations, in honor of it being my fortieth anniversary with the Tarot. I bought the deck I featured on Wednesday back in 1972, and it was true love from then on. I’d had a fling for a while with astrology, and I’d spent a year studying and journaling with the I Ching, both of which were astonishing and profoundly wonderful. But one day I walked into The Subterranean Circus, which had long been a favorite shopping destination, only a couple of blocks from the ramshackle rooming house… -
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Tarot Card of the Week: January 23-29, 2012 – Seven of Cups
23 Jan 2012 | 12:46 pmBlessings of the New Moon in Aquarius! Gung Hay Fat Choy – Happy New Year! We welcome the Year of the Water Dragon! (and Happy Birthday to my favorite Aquarian in all the world!) I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. ~ Klaus Kinski Make a wish! It’s the New Moon and the Lunar New Year. The gentle Water Dragon, whose year this is, knows and responds with great power to the yearnings of your heart. We get yet another Seven, the third this year! But this week’s Seven of Cups cautions that we could… -
Preparing for a Powerful Aquarius New Moon
22 Jan 2012 | 9:26 amHow is your New Year going? Have your good intentions slipped a little? Wishing you could get a new start now, instead of on the tail end of holiday exhaustion? Well, your wish is granted! It’s New Year’s Eve, again! Tonight, in the wee hours of 2:39 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time), Jan. 23, we celebrate the second New Moon after the Winter Solstice, the New Moon of Aquarius. That means it is the Lunar New Year, celebrated by over a billion people on this planet. Popularly called Chinese New Year, it ushers in the Year of the Water Dragon. It’s an ideal time for a… -
Happy Birthday, Aquarius!
20 Jan 2012 | 9:10 amAm I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~ Abraham Lincoln, Sun in Aquarius Happy Birthday to all the free spirits and visionaries of this iconoclastic sign, for they are pointing the way to the turning of the Age for us all. Aquarians are true originals. They love to think outside the box, and in fact, cannot abide boxes at all. To understand this, I need only mention a few famous Aquarians like Thomas Edison, James Joyce, Galileo, Charles Darwin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – all visionaries that broke ranks in spectacular fashion with the conventions of their times.
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NO To SOPA!
18 Jan 2012 | 6:19 pmBlackout
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T. Thorn Coyle: Know Thyself
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Choice Abounds (with Love)
26 Jan 2012 | 10:11 amAnxious? Find what you love. Ecstatic? Find what you love. Sorrowing? Find what you love. Angry? Find what you love. Hopeful? Find what you love. Despondent? Find what you love. Determined? Find what you love. Peaceful? Find what you love. Complacent? Find what you love. Joyous? Find what you love. Dying? Find what you love. Alive? Find what you love. (Inhale… Exhale… Open.) -
Don’t Give Up
23 Jan 2012 | 10:08 amLet your soul rise to meet your life. Let body, emotions, and mind shift toward this matrix of union. You can be whole, and reflect a more clearly ordered world. You can weave the chaos into light. When you choose to be continuous, you choose to change the world. You choose freedom over complacency. You choose revolution over comfort. You choose to shine instead of hide. You choose to polish the places where grit has accrued, and learn something in the pain and joy of polishing. You are gorgeous and complete. Let your pain and suffering become places where the waters meet the shore. Things… -
Dr. King, Satyagraha, & Occupy Oakland
15 Jan 2012 | 11:16 am“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” - Martin Luther King Jr. “I’m willing to put myself in harms way for my human & constitutional rights & those of others, but not for… -
What Are You Not Waiting For?
11 Jan 2012 | 9:59 amThis morning, pale light shining in the darkness of the living room drew me west in my home, instead of east where I usually do my morning sitting practice, exercise, and altar work. I looked to the deep blue sky slowly lightening to turquoise, and there was the moon – gibbous, on the wane from full – peaking through the branches of the tall sycamore. Instead of going to my altar for my usual morning practices, I decided to make a cup of tea and do some moon gazing first. Communing with the moon, I heard the rattling of bottles and saw a man with his cart, collecting recycling. -
Millennial Mosh Pit: Honoring the Descendants
4 Jan 2012 | 11:14 amIf we are to continue down a path of innovation and creativity, we must learn from those who came before us, and be open to the inspiration of those who follow. Living well is a multi-directional task. Each morning at my altar, I honor the lineage of ancestors and descendants.* As ritual orients us in space, honoring the ancestors and descendants orients us in time. We are helped by this awareness. Last weekend, I went to hear L.A. punk band X. They were favorites from my youth, when I was a teenage Gen Xer and they were ahead of the curve Boomers in their late 20s. Now in their mid 50s, and…
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Reproduction and Recruitment
26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pmThe gods have not identified barriers between genders and sexual orientations; humans should be the same way -
Of Gateways and Beauty
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You Can Stand Up
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Law and Religion in Indiana
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Cee Lo, Truth, and Consequences
12 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pmReligions are equal not because they share truth, but because they all lack truth.
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We Need Your Support
23 Jan 2012 | 11:18 amLast night was our last night with my husband’s kids for we don’t know how long. We all went out to eat at T.G.I. Friday’s and ate spinach dip and ice cream sundaes until we were stuffed to bursting. We laughed a lot, and we all mostly tried not to think about the uncertainty of the times ahead. My husband has been in negotiations with his ex-wife informally since October, and formally (read: with lawyers) for two months trying to work out a child custody arrangement that will let him see the kids after we’ve moved. We originally hoped for a three-month period of time… -
She That Is: A Meditation on Brighid
20 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amI gather together the candles, the prayer beads, the scattered objects and tools I’ve consecrated to Her over the years, and I set them before me on the altar. Three candles burning. One flame flickering deep, half-hidden in a thick, white pillar mostly melted down, its edges sculpted in soft dips and peaks like slowly collapsing snow or the heights of a mountain. One pillar still like new, solid sculpted wax, churning the cool rusted copper of LED electricity, nestled in its hurricane vase of cracked orange and red glass. One small candle floating, a dull gold ring around a bright,… -
Education or Death: Why the SOPA/PIPA Blackout Protest Matters
18 Jan 2012 | 12:51 pmIf you visit my website today between 8 AM and 8 PM, this is what you’ll see: I’ve joined sites all over the world wide web — from Reddit, BoingBoing and Wikipedia to WordPress, Google, even the Pagan Newswire Collective — in a blackout protest against the proposed SOPA (Stop Online Piracy ACT) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) bills that would drastically change the way the internet works and undermine innovation, communication and even basic safety by putting in place the infrastructure necessary for large-scale censorship. My stepdaughter recently treated her father and I… -
Satire, Suffering and the Pantheist’s Dilemma » No Unsacred Place
16 Jan 2012 | 10:44 amIn my latest post over on No Unsacred Place, I explore the meaning of pantheistic faith in the face of the “hour of adversity” and the role that satire and deep play have in helping us through times of spiritual crisis and community strife: Strict pantheism is, I think, a difficult outlook to maintain. You find only a few people — even among Pagans — who are truly and purely pantheistic. Polytheism has its multiple gods, goddesses, elementals and other spirits, inhabiting a sacred natural world but also maintaining distinct personalities within it. For polytheists, a local… -
Altars: A Showcase
13 Jan 2012 | 6:47 amI’ve created many altars, shrines and ritual spaces over the years. Each expressed the unique needs and aspirations of who I was at the time of its creation, and each balanced the limits of my living space with the potential for aesthetic and spiritual engagement. For these have all been living spaces — spaces that were alive with their own energies and moods, spaces that shaped my understanding of myself and sculpted me into new forms even as I organized and cleansed and decorated and invariably made a mess of them in an ever-repeating cycle. House-hunting in Seattle has put me…
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Stella Seaspirit Blog
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What Are Spirit Guides?
24 Jan 2012 | 3:00 amArtwork: Lesley Crossingham The rich and multidimensional universe of which we are a part, allows for a variety life forms. You never walk alone ~ a silent, internal fervent thought cast into the ether connects you with your Spirit Helpers instantly. What are Spirit Helpers? To me, ‘Spirit Helpers’ is an umbrella term [...] -
How To Get What You Want
17 Jan 2012 | 3:00 amArtwork: Ayko Have you been asking the universe to bring you something until you’re blue in the face, aching and exhausted from attempting to will it into being? Perhaps you need to brush up on your communication skills! Communication defined according to the Encarta English Dictionary: The exchange of information [...] -
Breath Work Source-ry
10 Jan 2012 | 3:00 amArtwork: Breathe Life by Casper It is no surprise that the air you breathe is vital to life in this physical realm. It is estimated that you can only live for three minutes without oxygen before the body shuts down and cells begin to die. Bringing air infused with intention into [...] -
Morph Into A New Now
27 Dec 2011 | 3:00 amArtwork: Lisa Iris This post wraps up the series stemming from the original post 5 Reasons Altars Are Good For You. Reflecting at your altar brings clarity to the situation as you consider with more depth what it is that underlies your petition and what the foundation for your request is. What [...] -
Impermanence and Anxiety ~ letting go of the ‘old you’
21 Dec 2011 | 3:00 amThis post comes from Gina Rafkind and is the 9th and final pit stop on her Anxiety Busting Blog Tour. Gina’s mission is to help creative women who suffer with anxiety to wake up to their life so they can confidently unleash and share their gifts with the world.Today she shares with us about the [...]
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The Village Witch - UK Witch. Traditional village witch serving the local community in Sittingbourne, Kent.
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Kindred Spirits and Soulmates
16 Jan 2012 | 3:18 pmThe meanings of the terms ‘Kindred Spirit’ and ‘Soulmate’ are entwined, so much so that the terms are interchangeable and probably mean different things to different people. I see kindred spirits and soulmates as someone you feel like you have known for years. Someone you have an instant connection with and someone who makes you feel safe and happy by just having them in your life. Most people see soulmates as the person they are married to. Based on love and romance, most people will say their spouse is their soulmate because they are ‘the one’. But… -
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
8 Jan 2012 | 2:23 pmWe all have times when our friends need us but for whatever reason, we can’t get to them. It makes us feel useless because we want to be there to support them but we can’t. If you are a witch or a spiritual type, your first instinct is to light a candle and send energy to them, it is something most of us probably do many, many times. But I also like to do something else. Herbs are so important to me, I love herbs, I love working with them and learning about the folklore of them, but I often think that petals and flowers are often not used enough. A great way to use petals… -
Happy Yule! Yule Magic Blog Party – My Gift
21 Dec 2011 | 2:28 amClick here to view the video on YouTube. When I had the idea of hosting a Yule blog party, I wanted to make it a little different to everyone elses, I wanted to be able to share a little love and light heartedness. There is so much bad news every day in the news, I thought it would be nice to do something positive, so the idea came to share a virtual gift. I have been thinking about the gift I wanted to give you all, all week. I came up with some good ones, some funny ones and some serious ones, so I am actually going to give you three. You know what I am like, I can never decide! The… -
We did it and thank you!
18 Dec 2011 | 2:05 pmFinally, after 3 months of working every evening after our full time jobs and every weekend, yesterday was our big day and we opened The Village Witch shop in our own village. As you can see from the photo above, it looks so beautiful and we are so happy. We had loads of people come and at one point we just couldn’t fit any more people in and people had to come back later! We had a wonderful day, very emotional and tiring, but wonderful. We have so many thank you’s and a huge list but there is so many people to thank that I am worried about forgetting someone lol So to… -
Yule Preparations Have Started!
10 Dec 2011 | 3:09 pmYule prep has started in earnest this weekend. We put our decorations up a couple of weekends ago, but this weekend is where we have started planning what we are going to do and when. We had my niece, Ellie, come to stay yesterday, she is the same age as my eldest daughter Amy, they go to the same school and as well as being cousins they are incredibly close friends, it is lovely to see. We spent the evening in the shop making some goodies for next weekend and had a really good evening. But this morning I woke up and realised that we have been throwing so much time into the shop ready…
