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Reclaiming the Cosmic in Holiday Rituals Webinar This Thursday (November 14th)!
The Last Mercury Transit until 2032 just started! Cloudy? You can see it happening online! [Stardust, Contemplating]
It’s common for us Pagans to be among those most aware of what the planet Mercury is doing, and while going retrograde happens every few months (~3 times a year) a Mercury transit (when Mercury “eclipses”* the Sun) is much, much more rare. Mercury is now blocking some tiny bit of the Sun’s light, which won’t happen again until 2032.
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The History of Sex: A new podcast by B. T. Newberg
What was it like to be a cunning woman during the witch trials of Renaissance Europe? Or a eunuch priest of Cybele in ancient Rome? Or a cross-dressing shaman in Siberia when Europeans first came knocking?
That’s the kind of thing we’ll be exploring in the new podcast The History of Sex.
Sex and gender issues lie at the core of the Neopagan movement, not to mention the pre-Christian Pagan religions that have inspired it. Anyone interested in these basic questions will find something rewarding to discover in this show.
For example, did you know the Nazis encouraged young women to bear a child out of wedlock for the Fatherland? Or that pre-contact Hawaii had no such thing as marriage? Or that ancient Romans had no concept of orientation, only a vague sense of “preference” for one sex or the other?
To whet your appetite, here are just a few of the episodes already out:
- What the Zombie Apocalypse Teaches Us About Sex: Hunter-gatherers and the Walking Dead
- The History of Gay Bars, Feat. Born Yesterday
- A Real-life Handmaid’s Tale: Sex in the Third Reich
We’ll have much more coming up in the following year, so be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you get podcasts. You can also listen at our website: www.historyofsexpod.com.
Happy Fall Equitherm (Samhain)!
Our Ancestors reach back in an unbroken chain billions of years long, including literally billions of people, trillions of non-human Ancestors, and many more. Today our Ancestors speak to us, and we speak to them. Read More
A Few Glimpses of the Real Lives of our Ancestors, by Starstuff, Contemplating
In many ways (not all!), this is a great time to be alive. In addition to benefits of medicine and technology, my Samhain observance (and indeed, my life overall) is enhanced by a large and growing body of knowledge about my Ancestors. So many of our Ancestors lived their lives honoring their Ancestors, but did so with scant knowledge of them. Read More
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