
This August 1st, forget everything you have learned about Celtic myths and the agricultural customs of 18th century English peasants. Forget even the word “Lughnasadh”. Instead, go outside. Look. Listen. Breathe in and breathe out. Bend down and touch the earth. And ask what the world is speaking to you.
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But I was wrong – very wrong. In the blink of an eye the toddler is forever gone, ….
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The Animal that, frankly, kind of scares us. It’s sweating and eating and breathing and excreting and lusting, and none of that is under our control. It’s as if our consciousness is surfing a powerful, turbulent wave of capricious, hungry, insistent flesh…except that the consciousness is the wave, too, not separate from it.
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One of the radical ideas running through this series is the notion that a pagan ritual can be–and should be–simple. The complexification of a ritual does not deepen the experience of the ritual, and in fact has the tendency to make it more spiritually shallow.
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“As I stand here on this celebration of Litha, the sacred wheel of the year continues to turn. As my ancestors did in times before and my descendants may do in times to come, I honour the old ways. This is the time of the Summer Solstice……:
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