Click here to discover theYesterday, my amazing Circle of amazing women got together and did one of our rituals that focuses, in a direct way, on our skyclad, physical bodies as a gateway to the magic of our lives. Our bodies are women’s bodies, not the idealized bodies splaye…
Views unfold along paths. A common pond shape in Japanese gardens, for example, is roughly in the shape of the character for “heart.” There are few places along the shore where the entire pond’s edge can be seen, because of the way that land intrudes…
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Since There Is No Escape~Sara TeasdaleSince there is no escape, since at the end My body will be utterly destroyed,This hand I love as I have loved a friend, This body I tended, wept with and enjoyed;Since there is no escape even for me Who lo…
Here’s a fascinating post by Star, from the Pagan “portal” at Patheos.com, concerning her recent experience being interviewed about Paganism by a certainly-less-than-friendly panel. Let me start by saying that, as someone who frequently critiques Paga…
Here’s a thoughtful, well-written article about religious discrimination against a woman, Carole Smith, due to the fact that she’s a Wiccan. If you watch the included video interview with Ms. Smith, you’ll see that she does a pretty good job handling …
The conversation on the idea of Universal Metaphor sheds light in many directions. When we see the things of material life as metaphors for higher things we are able to participate at a much deeper level in our experience of physical creation.
Of cour…
At 8:30, I will turn off all of the lights in my home, shut down my computer, go off the grid.I will go to my altar and chant for a future that conserves energy and that gets energy from clean, renewable resources, that consciously honors its sources o…
Geraldine Ferraro, who in 1984 became the first woman named to a major-party presidential ticket, has died.The former three-term House member from Queens, New York, was 75 years old. She had long been suffering from multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. A statement from her family said she died at Massachusetts General Hospital. More from the statement:
“Geraldine Anne Ferraro Zaccaro was widely known as a leader, a fighter for justice, and a tireless advocate for those without a voice. To us, she was a wife, mother, grandmother and aunt, a woman devoted to and deeply loved by her family. Her courage and generosity of spirit throughout her life waging battles big and small, public and personal, will never be forgotten and will be sorely missed.”
Ferraro was an assistant district attorney in the borough of Queens when she decided to run for an open congressional seat in 1978.
When I was a young woman, struggling to make it in a world where being a woman was even more of a handicap than it is today, Ms. Ferraro’s run for VP gave me hope. I thought of her when I voted for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. I still hope that I’ll live to see a woman become President.
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Writing these rants is an exercise in faith. I try to put myself on the line in these writings, to expose my soul, to open myself to the danger of aliveness and the encounter with risk. I try to stay true to that which my soul seeks to reflect from the…
A central core of worshiping the Gods is learning to enjoy the good they’ve impregnated into this world and dealt out. Complaining about the bad when you don’t even enjoy the good you have is very bad manners. The universe does not reward bad manners.T…
You are at the echo’s end of a long tunnel of hollow, and powers unimaginable distances away call to you, though their voices are faint. You are trapped in a world of illusion, surrounded by Utgard, endlessly distracted, and the voices are calling you …
Here’s more from Derrick Jensen concerning hope. Not believing the culture will undergo a voluntary transition is not the same as not having hope. The question, again, is what do I hope for? I hope that salmon survive no matter what happens, and I hop…
Thanks to Hraefna, in Canada, for alerting me to this in Comments. The other day, some of my friends from the Madison protests sent me an Ian’s Pizza t-shirt. I really treasure it. The Madison Protests (along with the brave actions of the Madison …
Yesterday’s post on the universal nature of metaphor has prompted a very interesting response from Deanic science fiction writer Annalinde Matichei.
The authoress of The Flight of the Silver Vixen commented on her blog at the Sun Daughter Press upon h…
I keep hearing that the inventory of unsold homes is going to last for years. I would love to see communities begin clearing lots and turning them into community gardens.
A while back, John Michael Greer wrote, “The good times aren’t coming back.” He was talking about the good economic and lifestyle times that were fueled by the amazingly rapid use of Gaia’s petroleum reserves — a resource that took Mamma Earth thousa…
Before the winding creek coming down through the carved sand I knelt, to give reverence. And up above, I saw people on the pathway walking back and forth, a bit bothered at this young poet in oblation before the waters, and I sighed … for I knew th…
I kneel down on the wet sand to kiss the shores, and beg Njord forgive those who have mired them, and realize, I cannot ask him forgive! For you cannot forgive those who have not repented! They have not paid their gild, they have not turned their way…
Farm? I see no farm. I see the thick, viscous blood of oil bathed on barren soon-to-vanish soil. I see a sea of air filled with filth and venom, spread by those who see the crawling sons and daughters of Mother Earth as pests. I see not rows of cro…
Here’s a fascinating article about Media Matters for America doing some intense training in how to handle the media. Their particular focus is how to handle being on tv talk shows, but much of the advice is relevant for dealing with all forms of media…
Mark Bittman: We’re not just buying, we’re growing | Urban agriculture is on the rise. If you’re smirking, let me remind you that in 1943, 20 million households (three-fifths of the population at that point) grew more than 40 percent of all the …
The Aristasian social network, Heartbook, has published a Calendar for this year of Sai Candre 3331.
It is labeled an unofficial calendar and certainly has a few unofficial elements – the Princess pictures are charming – though perhaps not to every ta…
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In death, the essence is recycled back in into the heart of the world itself. Hel is the heart of this world, the intensive interiority funding the virtuality and potentiality that underlies our world of manifestation. There in that implicate order sou…
It’s so easy to hate yourself, so common, so lazy to hate yourself. But it is much more difficult to love yourself, to truly love yourself, which is of course different than mere narcissism. The narcissist is a cynic who cannot embrace the full embrace…
Your ability to find Hael has something to do with your ability to trust, to let go and open yourself to reserves of energy and healing around you. The world is a hard enough place it oftens hardens us, and we shrink from the resiliency that can reconn…
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