Naturalistic Paganism

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No Nonsense Paganism: Lughna-say-what?

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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Happy Summer Thermstice/Lammas!

Happy Lunasa! May we remember to celebrate, helping to keep our minds on this world, with both good and bad.

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What the Perseids (just a few weeks away, Aug 11-13!) Taught me about Parenting, by Starstuff, Contemplating

But I was wrong – very wrong. In the blink of an eye the toddler is forever gone, ….

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The Summer Cross-Quarter (Summer Thermstice) Approaches (+ online Lunasa Rituals)!

 Lammas thus celebrates the heat of the summer, and with it, productivity and the early harvest – as well as the returning darkness.  Those in the Southern Hemisphere celebrate Imbolc at this time.

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Meeting the Meat: An Animal Initiation, by Mark Green

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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