Other than criminals, the elderly are the only people who are routinely kept in residential custody in the post-industrial world. The massive, brick edifices of the nineteenth century that housed the parentless, the impoverished, the mentally ill, and the disabled…
Read moreHappy Winter Thermstice/Imbolc!
Hidden life beneath the snow and ice… How many of us have seen vole and mouse trails under the snow? They are hidden now, but with a careful eye you might see them when the start to appear as the…
Read moreThe Winter Cross-Quarter (Winter Thermstice) Approaches!
Have you noticed that slightly later sunsets? The days are just starting to get longer, yet that warm is feeble, and we are in the depths of Winter’s chill. Growing a tiny bit stronger every day, the Sun is returning….
Read moreThe Top 10 Blog Posts of 2019
Looking back helps us in many ways – it can increase our understanding of ourselves, showing us both good things to build upon and areas to watch. As the year starts, looking back at the top posts of 2019 can…
Read moreCall for Contributions! Celebrating Intercosmic Kinship of the Goddess (Deadline January 31)
At the conclusion of each chapter of Journey into Dreamtime there are “Dreamtime Reflections”, posing questions for personal consideration, inviting personal participation and pathways into some actual sense of an alive self in relationship with the alive world described.
Read moreHappy Winter Solstice!
Happy Winter Solstice, or Yule! Of course, our spherical planet also gives us the beautiful symmetry of the Summer Solstice (Litha) being celebrated now by our Southern Hemisphere friends. With the exact Solstice moment after 11 pm EST today, it…
Read morePagans Scapegoated Again, this time in the UK – by Starstuff, Contemplating
Pagans again blamed for something they didn’t do? Say it ain’t so, Joe! It’s not a surprise, of course, that Christian privilege means that time after time, non-Christians (especially Pagans, because they can’t be demonized for being foreign) are vilified…
Read moreThe Gift of Winter, by Stardust, Contemplating
For many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we are about to enter a wonderful season! Winter is an incredible gift which we all too easily take for granted, or worse, complain about. Like the constantly changing sky, the constantly…
Read moreRobbing Fox to Save Rabbit, by Lupa
We need to return to an ancestral way in which nature is not an Other, but an Us. If we truly love nature, if we consider ourselves friends to the animals, then we need to know nature itself, through books and observations, through science and questioning. We need to know the rest of nature as well as we know ourselves.
Read moreYule (the Winter Solstice) is right around the corner!
How are your celebration plans coming? With less than 4 weeks left before Yule (the Winter Solstice), I have to admit I’ve got only a little ready. For many of us, this is a big Sabbat, which takes a more…
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