
As we enter the Winter Solstice season (or the Summer Solstice season in the Southern Hemisphere), we can look back one last time to the Ancestors, if we want, with the Samhain/Ancestor episodes on The Wonder (also good to remember as when we approach Samhain next year or in April for the Southern Hemisphere). Also, information about Mark’s book, coming next year! Plus, an interview with James Morgenstern – All that more, on the page here.
My very first public pagan ritual was a bit of a surprise.
I had been identifying as “Pagan” for almost a decade before I ventured to meet other Pagans in the flesh. I had learned about Paganism from Margot Adler’s Drawing Down the Moon, Starhawk’s The Spiral Dance, and Graham Harvey’s anthology, Paganism Today: Wiccans, Druids, the Goddess and Ancient Earth Traditions for the Twenty-First Century. So I had a certain vision of what I thought Paganism was: spiritually profound, intellectually nuanced, politically progressive, philosophically naturalistic, and competent in the execution.
What I discovered was something very different.
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After a half century, most people alive today don’t remember the Apollo missions, which landed humans on the Moon. How wonderful to be able to see our return to the Moon, appropriately named after Apollo’s sister, the goddess Artemis!
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Our family is planning the gifts for Winter Solstice/the holidays, as many of us are. Celebrating the Winter Solstice (December 21 this year) gives us an even shorter time than most Americans for holiday planning and waiting for delivery, so with still some weeks before the Winter Solstice, here are some gift ideas to give or ask for! Of the items here, many will help your spiritual practice, enriching your daily life for you and your family.
The Wonder podcast often reveals insights which, though they have been hiding in plain sight, I’ve not noticed for years, if ever. Episode #28 supplied another one – one much larger than the episode which contained it – that Paganism – including many kinds of Paganism, from hard polytheism through Naturalistic Paganism – is, in many ways, fundamentally different from most other religions.
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