Naturalistic Paganism
The Summer Cross-Quarter (Summer Thermstice) Approaches!
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Autumn cross-quarter or “Summer Thermstice” is celebrated on August 1 as Lughnasadh/Lammas/Lunasa. How will you be celebrating it? Astronomically, the event occurs on August 6th or 7th this year. “Or“? What? How can it happen on different days? Read More
Will This Congressman Reflect on our Earth? By Bart Everson
This past Thursday morning, I took my life into my own hands and rode my bike out to Metairie, to an office building on Veterans Memorial Boulevard. This nondescript edifice houses the office of Steve Scalise, the representative for Louisiana’s 1st Congressional District.
Dear Pagans: Please Stop Abusing Science, by Lupa Greenwolf
Okay. I’m putting on the Cranky Pagan Hat. You have been warned.
When I was a kid, I always wanted to be some sort of STEM major, whether it was veterinarian or biologist. Unfortunately, my terrible math skills barred me from anything but the humanities. Even my psychology degree is more geared towards counseling practice than scientific research; in grad school, my research methods and statistics classes were specifically for not-math people, just enough to be able to understand the latest studies in counseling-related psychology.
But it was enough. Many of us in the United States get a cursory look at the scientific method in public school, but most of us forget it after we’re done. This is a damned shame, because it’s one of the most important processes in our world today. It is meant to allow us as close to an objective look at phenomena as we can get, in spite of our human biases. Revisiting research methods in my early thirties reminded me that there are reasons we know the things we do, and it’s not just a matter of “feelings”. Read More
Building a Land Shrine, by Anna Walther
Today the sun shone from behind early summer storm clouds long enough for me to walk to my suburban woods. As I walked, the first cicada song of the season blared from the branches of a neighbor’s cedar elm. Above the small clearing that I tend, a mockingbird ran through his repertoire from the bare branches of a dead tree, and bees and dragonflies zipped overhead. Read More
Early Summer Theme: Productivity
In Deep Time, early summer can span the time from the early Mesozoic to the late Mesozoic – a time during which dinosaurs and other life flourished, finding new ways to succeed. These ways included enormous size, better care for the young, better photosynthesis, and more. To succeed in our own lives, productivity and innovation are often needed. Can we call on our knowledge of the surge of life within us – and what that life has done in the past – to spur us forward? As with all themes, this just an optional muse.
Early Summer (June 20 – August 1)
Cosmic event: Vibrant Life in the early to mid Mesozoic
Theme: Productivity
Questions: Where are we productive or unproductive? How can our spirituality help us?
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