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[Pagan in Place] “A Personal Pagan Philosophy” by Anna Walther
I find the vitriolic blogosphere debates between atheistic Pagans and hard polytheists exhausting and uninteresting. Like many of you, I think about the nature of deity, but I think the question itself is more interesting than the answers. Furthermore, relationship with deity is deeply personal and intimate. No surprise then, that in the very public discussion of the nature of deity among people who don’t know each other well, without the goodness of face-to-face communication cues like eye contact, facial expression, and tone of voice, many people’s personal boundaries are crossed and a lot of conflict results.
Cosmic Calendar Countdown
Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar maps the entire history of our cosmos onto a single year. You can follow the entire calendar here at Humanistic Paganism. As you imagine, things speed up considerably as the year advances. After the Big Bang on January 1, we have to wait until May for the Milky Way to form and September for our own sun to form. But things get really busy in December: Read More
[Rotting Silver] “Universal Intelligence” by B. T. Newberg
Everything has universal intelligence:
A rock knows how to hold together, and when a wind blows upon it, it knows how to wear away slowly. A corpse knows how to let itself go, to give up its consistency so that other things may be nourished and formed from it. Water knows how to evaporate, rise, and then fall as rain. And it knows how to find its way back to the ocean. Read More
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world … Isaac Newton.
On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Sir Isaac Newton was born Dec 25, 1642.* Before he turned 30, Newton had discovered the laws of motion, the universal law of gravitation, and invented integral and differential calculus.
Newton discovered the proofs which allowed for the calculation of planetary orbits, articulated his three laws of motion (including the idea which all high schoolers learn that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, explained the effect of the moon’s gravity on the tides, and discovered that white light is composed of light of all the colors of the rainbow. Read More
Winter Solstice
For Neo-Pagans in the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice is celebrated as Yule. This year, the date falls on December 22nd. The precise date and time for the cross-quarter can be found at archaeoastronomy.com.
At the Winter Solstice, NaturalPantheist of the Nature is Sacred blog performs a ritual which begins with this prelude: Read More
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