Naturalistic Paganism
Happy Summer Thermstice/Lammas!
Celebrations
Heat! Summer! Productivity! Growing Darkness! These and many other themes join with the baking of bread and early harvest celebrations of Lunasa.
Some of the ways many of us are celebrating were published a few weeks ago. For my family, celebrations with our annual blueberry harvest and evening ritual will be this Friday. This year, our Earth, Moon and Sun bring the growing dark of Lunasa to us in the dramatic display of the August 21st eclipse. Not only is this display of darkness so fitting for Lunasa, but it will also pass directly over the great plains, where so much of our grain harvest comes from. For some of us, the celebrations will be later this week – the actual midpoint between the Solstice and the Equinox is August 7th. However you are celebrating (including Imbolc celebrations in the Southern Hemisphere), may your be celebration be blessed.
A New Contraceptive for Pagan Men
Sex and health are important topics for anyone, but maybe more so for us Pagans. Being an earth-based belief system, we tend to favor and embrace a more natural and holistic approach to our health; steering away from chemicals that can harm the Earth and us, and pills that may contain multiple side effects. And when it comes to sex, we don’t usually attach cultural taboos, and restrictions like other religions do but encourage that which gives our bodies pleasure when performed in mutual enjoyment. We don’t always wish to produce more children, however, so we use contraceptives to prevent this from happening. Read More
Fasting for Naturalistic Pagans, by Renee Lehnen
The Buddha fasted. Jesus fasted. Shamans and Mormons fast. In June, Muslims observed the month-long, daylight fast of Ramadan, a test of faith in northern latitudes. Along with ritual, adherence to core beliefs and values, and reflective practices such as prayer or meditation, most religions advise periods of abstinence from food. Naturalistic Paganism offers no specific direction on fasting. However, fasting is a powerful spiritual practice that Pagans may wish to adopt for several reasons. Here are six of them: Read More
Can we derive a secular spirituality from the seasons? by Bart Everson, in Standing Room Only
![Spinning in Place: A Secular Humanist Embraces the Neo-Pagan Wheel of the Year by [Everson, Bart]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/4163oG%2BV32L.jpg)
Naturalistic Pagan Pilgrimage – [Stardust, Contemplating]
But how could it feel safely enclosed, with so many missing stones and open spaces? I wondered as I looked out from within Stonehenge. The ancient stones gave a clear feeling of sacred space, of a timeless, dimensionless spot, an enchanted circle rooted in the land of the Salisbury plain, from which the wider Universe could be observed. Even with most of the stones gone, and many of those that remained felled by time, the Romans, or others – the feeling was still there, with both enclosed protection and a feeling of expanded vision and clarity outward. That vision grew with the growing light, and suddenly, someone called out. I don’t remember what was said, but all eyes turned to the Southeast, from where the first orange rays of light came as the Sun now peeked over the horizon. The Sun’s position was Read More
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