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Happy Winter Thermstice/Imbolc!
Celebrations
The life exists, hidden beneath the snow. Gathering strength, yet hidden in many ways. How long and harsh will this winter be? Can traditions of groundhogs or candles tell us? The political parallels again jump out at us. These and many other themes join with the making of candles and wintertime celebrations.
Some of the ways many of us are celebrating were published a few weeks ago, and I’m in the process of getting both the candle making supplies and ritual materials ready. My kids were worried that we wouldn’t have enough snow to make snow cream for Imbolc, but just enough fell yesterday! However you are celebrating (including Summmer Thermstice/Lammas celebrations in the Southern Hemisphere), may your be celebration be blessed.
[Dead Ideas] “Geis V: Women and Magic: An Interview with Gillian Kenny”, by B. T. Newberg
https://player.megaphone.fm/ADL5632194894?
Expert on women, sex, and magic Gillian Kenny gives a quirky and fun interview on the position of the fairer sex in medieval Ireland and their relation to geassa in the literature. You can also see me draw Gillian’s portrait on our new Dead Ideas youtube channel!
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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
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