Naturalistic Paganism
Revolutionary Ideas for Imbolc, by Renee Lehnen
It is winter in the Great Lakes region. The mall parking lot is filled with cars while a few people skate on the neighbourhood rink. As I swish around, I wonder why people spend money on plastic stuff when they could be playing crack the whip. I imagine announcing over the mall’s PA system, “Attention shoppers! Your consumerism reinforces economic systems that plunder the earth, exploit workers, and enrich robber barons. How about skating instead?” Read More
[Dead Ideas] “Geis IV: Nede the Satire-poet, and the Death of Connla”, by B. T. Newberg
https://player.megaphone.fm/ADL8566856888?
More stories! We were having so much fun, we just kept recording. First is the tale of a satire-poet called Nede, followed by the saga of a young warrior named Connla who meets his grisly demise at the hands of his own father. Both these stories involve – you guessed it! – a geis.
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MAKING SACRED: SPACE FOR THE NOT-YET by Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
As the Wheel turns into Imbolc in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the Seasonal Moment of Lammas in the Southern Hemisphere. For those in the planet’s South, Earth’s tilt is delivering the post-Summer Solstice welcoming of the new Dark, the first harvest celebration. I understand it as the “wake”/funeral Moment of the Earth-Sun annual cycle. Some of Earth-based tradition celebrate it as the wake of “Lugh” a Sun god, naming the Moment as “Lughnasad”, but in Goddess tradition, we may all understand ourselves as the grain – we are all harvested. Read More
[Dead Ideas] “Geis III: The Love Story of Diarmuid and Grainne”, by B. T. Newberg
https://player.megaphone.fm/ADL4473056761?
It’s story time! We’re continuing our series on the medieval Irish geis. Andre promised to tell us a hell of a yarn, and he delivers. This is the medieval Irish story of Diarmuid and Grainne, a romantic (?) tale of two lovers and a geis gone wrong (or right? – you decide).
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The Winter Cross-Quarter (Winter Thermstice) Approaches!
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter cross-quarter (Summer Thermstice) is traditionally celebrated on February 2 as Imbolc. It is near the midpoint between the Winter Solstice and the Spring equinox, which this year happens on February 3rd. It is one of eight stations in our planet’s annual journey around the sun. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, the claws of winter are harsh at this time, even though sunlight has already started returning. It takes a while for the climate to warm in response to the longer day, so the earth remains cold. While the Winter Solstice is the time of longest darkness, the Winter Cross-Quarter is (on average) the time of greatest cold. Yet, like a secret promise, the sun is returning. Read More
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