Pagan Bloggers with Naturalistic Worldviews
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.
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A response to David Brooks New York Times 6/11/19 Op Ed https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/10/opinion/astrology-occult-millennials.html David Brooks is right to quote from the Tara Isabella Burton essay in The American Interest, “Wicca … is technically the fastest-growing religion in America.” But he misses…
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I plan to keep this wordpress blog as a place to write longer bits about pagan practice and theology, but I’m posting about lived experience a lot more often on Instagram these days: https://www.instagram.com/she_saves_seeds/ My Instagram feed is only rarely explicitly pagan, and it’s plant-heavy; if you’re not into gardening, hiking, cooking, and/or art, it […]
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It’s tricky to identify what makes someone Pagan, since Pagans hold neither concept of divinity nor creed in common. Pagan practices and community structures vary. However, most self-identified Pagans would likely endorse a deep reverence for nature. But what do we mean, when we say we revere nature? The word is commonly reserved for that […]
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What objects do you find sacred? Being able to openly pledge based on what symbolizes the most high in our minds is a precious part of being free, and, it turns out, a moving statement about what is important. A…
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Sometimes friends see you more clearly than you see yourself. A few months ago, John Halstead wrote about my particular brand of small-p, backyard paganism in a post so flattering of my approach that I was embarrassed to read it. It was a profound gift, to have my practice reflected back to me. There’s precious […]
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Sunflowers are blooming, dragonflies are hunting, and cicadas are droning where I live. Sunflowers blooming in my home garden Farmers’ markets are full to bursting with tomatoes and other early summer delights. WeatherBug lights my phone up with heat advisory warnings on the daily now. Ah, summer in Austin. When it’s still beautiful but beginning […]
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An island just voted to abolish time!
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In a culture of life: We would cooperate with other nations to mitigate the effects of climate change, in order to protect our descendants from its consequences. We would not factory farm other animals for food. We would protect the integrity of Earth’s waterways, because water is life. We would beg for forgiveness we clearly […]
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I’ve had neither time nor energy to do focused spiritual work since Spring Equinox, much less write about it. Both personal and professional life have felt overwhelming in recent weeks. Personally I’ve been attending to ongoing recovery from family-of-origin issues; adapting to the parenting tasks at hand, as my children grow and develop into tweenagers; […]
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