Wicca and Mother Goddess

Waiting for the BarbariansWhat are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?The barbarians are to arrive today.Why such inaction in the Senate?Why do the Senators sit and pass no laws?Because the barbarians are to arrive today.What laws can the Senators …

i sing of Olaf glad and bigi sing of Olaf glad and bigwhose warmest heart recoiled at war:a conscientious object-orhis wellbelovéd colonel (trigwestpointer most succinctly bred)took erring Olaf soon in hand; but–though an host of overjoyed noncoms (f…

Dulce Et Decorum EstBent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backsAnd towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men marched asleep. Many had lost their …

Carentan O CarentanBY LOUIS SIMPSONTrees in the old days used to stand And shape a shady laneWhere lovers wandered hand in hand Who came from Carentan.This was the shining green canal Where we came two by two Walking at combat-interval. Such …

A ReminiscenceBY ANNE BRONTËYES, thou art gone! and never more Thy sunny smile shall gladden me;But I may pass the old church door, And pace the floor that covers thee.May stand upon the cold, damp stone, And think that, frozen, lies be…

The War in the AirBY HOWARD NEMEROVFor a saving grace, we didn’t see our dead,Who rarely bothered coming home to dieBut simply stayed away out thereIn the clean war, the war in the air.Seldom the ghosts come back bearing their talesOf hitting the earth…

  It is a paradox that we encounter so much internal noise
when we first try to sit in silence. It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain. It is a paradox that keeping still can lead us so fully into life and being. Our minds do not like paradoxes.  We want things To be clear, [Read More...]

The PerformanceBY JAMES L. DICKEYThe last time I saw Donald Armstrong He was staggering oddly off into the sun, Going down, off the Philippine Islands. I let my shovel fall, and put that handAbove my eyes, and moved some way to one sideThat his b…

Mother and PoetBY ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNINGI.Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the west by the sea.Dead ! both my boys ! When you sit at the feast And are wanting a great song for Italy free, Let non…

For a War MemorialBY G. K. CHESTERTON(SUGGESTED INSCRIPTION PROBABLY NOT SUGGESTED BY THE COMMITTEE)The hucksters haggle in the martThe cars and carts go by;Senates and schools go droning on;For dead things cannot die.A storm stooped on the place of to…

Tommy by Rudyard KiplingI went into a public-’ouse to get a pint o’ beer,The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.”The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die,I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I:O it’s Tommy…

To MeditateTo meditate does not mean to fight with a problem.To meditate means to observe.Your smile proves it.It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation.You a…

Calling all artists! Commissioning art for the concept “Harvest-Land”. Please send me your drawings, paintings, etc., of your conception of what a mythical “Harvest-Land” would look like. Include all symbols, folk figures, deities, etc. that seem appro…

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution …

I love what Gary Snyder says about poetry and meditation:A year or so later, in Kyoto, I asked my teacher Oda Sesso Roshi, “Sometimes I write poetry. Is that all right?” He laughed and said, “It’s all right as long as it comes out of your true self.” H…

This I know: I belong in the circle of Yoginis. I have always been here. This circle is my teacher, satguru, it is my home, it is my sisters, it is my mother. It is myself. The Yogini lineage goes way back for thousands of years, and the practices we explore in the Awakening Women [Read More...]

We have forgotten and been denied the sacred power of the divine feminine. Without her, we impoverish our lives of the sacred meaning and divine purpose of being alive, we lose our ability to heal, nourish and transform ourselves and our world, and we deny ourselves the wisdom and the sacred power that belongs to [...]

I would like to know where the words “Sai” and “Janyati” come from And what they mean.
“Sai” was the name of a very prominent Hindu “Guru” who recently died, but I asume there is no connection?

Greetings,
Alexandra

Janyati (singular, Janya) comes fro…

In the Philippines, “Green Guerillas” (click link to go to You Tube Video, in 3 parts) assist the indigenous tribespeople in ousting the logging companies and imposing a complete ban on logging for export, with limited use for domestic purposes. They a…

An interesting conversation with a dear friend has had me thinking for a few weeks about mystical experience. And one of the things that I’ve realized is that while it’s generally not possible (absent LSD or other psychotropics) to have a mystical exp…

May it be so for you.

Wow. That was a long time ago.

Maybe it won’t be helpful at all, but on the off chance that someone who has to talk to the press ever needs to actually explain “what Witchcraft is,” here’s (a bit of) what it is, to me.It’s a religion that honors that part of women that is also divin…

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts, but apparently there’s still a need to discuss framing when Pagans deal with the outside world. Here’s an article about a group of Salem Witches who want to improve relations with their town and ed…

So, lawyerly disqualifiers first, I don’t know Liona Rowan, but this survey was passed to me by a local Wiccan I know well. Rowan is conducting a survey concerning the need for a low-cost retirement community for people s/he calls “Pagan Elders.” It’…

When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your womb tonight. [Read More...]