Originally posted on The Pagan Values Blogject:
(Re-posted from my personal blog Chrysalis) A lot of folks posting on the most recent tragic shooting in Connecticut… lots of folks using or wanting to use it as a chance to put forward their views on gun control and/or the right to bear arms… and some criticizing…

Originally posted on hecatedemeter:
Dream Swim So if I’m going to be “that” old woman — the crazy one who blogs about her dreams, I might as well go all out. Last night was the New Moon and I stayed up late watching shooting stars. When I went to bed, I dreamed that, as was…

Originally posted on Peaceful Awakenings: Reflections of Egypt:
I pray for the dead. People throw out random prayer requests all the times in pagan circles, and whether or not I respond varies widely. But I pray for the dead. Always. I forget who said it – if it was Somé or an Ifa priest or…

and to the myths…!!!

Originally posted on Mystical Bewilderment:
This post was supposed to go out, uh, earlier this week and didn’t. Just because I say I’m writing something doesn’t mean that I’m able or willing to actually fit anything to a timeline. There’s a reason why my favorite quote, from Douglas Adams, is: “I love deadlines. I like…

Originally posted on Naturalistic Paganism:
Hey… wasn’t something supposed to happen today? We’re still here. (Big surprise.) Today marks the notorious “prediction” of the Mayan calendar that the world will end (or, some say, a new spiritual era will begin). The so-called prediction is actually nothing of the kind.  The Mayan calendar simply ends, with…

Originally posted on Naturalistic Paganism:
The sun, nearing winter solstice, travels low across the sky in a multiple-exposure picture made in Maine in 2002.PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT F. BUKATY, AP For Neopagans in the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice is celebrated as Yule.   This year, the date falls on December 21st.  The precise date and time for…

Originally posted on hecatedemeter:
Thrones I have a complicated relationship with angels. First, I believe in them because I’ve experienced them. I don’t believe in the New-Agey nice ones or in the sweet, sentimental ones, but I do believe in the it’s-necessary-to-say-“Be-Not-Afraid!”-even-though-there-will-be-fear ones. In the kind that Madeline L’Engle wrote about in her Wrinkle in…

Originally posted on Polysemic Stupor:
Here is page 3 of my blank-book daughter-gift “The Notebook” (click here for parts 1 and 2)                                       and the typewritten text: 3 In Which the Wood is Entered, Entering As we grew…

Originally posted on The Twisted Rope:
This is a 3 post series about a cycle. A cycle that took nearly 3 years to complete. I’ve decided to write about this now because this is my time for celebrating O’s Mysteries, and I feel that the cycle I have been through and the Mysteries go hand…