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Eleventh month, eleventh day

Posted in Christianity, Society, Wheel of the Year, tagged , , , , on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I don’t really have a personal connection with Veterans’ Day.  One of the many variable and uncertain stories of my father’s life was whether he had fought in the Second World War; he was of an age to do so, but sometimes he said he hadn’t, and sometimes he said he had.  I’m not sure [...]

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We shall see him (and ourselves) as he is

Posted in Christianity, Wheel of the Year, tagged , , , , , , on November 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that [...]

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A holy day

Posted in Christianity, Druidry, Wheel of the Year, tagged , , , , , , on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Holy is the True Light, and passing wonderful,
lending radiance to them that endured in the heat of the conflict,
from Christ they inherit a home of unfading splendour,
wherein they rejoice with gladness evermore.
Alleluia!
from the Salisbury Diurnal by GH Palmer

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Neato cool article–

Posted in Buddhism, Links, Wheel of the Year, tagged , , , , , on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

–on Halloween and Teh Spooky from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective: Gathering of Ghosts and Demons. It talks about female practitioner Machig Labdron and the practice of chod, offering one’s body as food for the demons and ghosts.

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Alban Elued: Ending and beginning

Posted in Wheel of the Year, tagged , , , , , on September 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Today like every other day
We wake up empty and scared.
Don’t open the door of your study
And begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do
There are hundreds of way to kneel
And kiss the earth.
I looked for this poem of Rumi’s this morning because it perfectly captured how I felt upon [...]

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Earth Day

Posted in Nature Awareness, Quotes, Wheel of the Year, tagged , on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I had nothing profound to say about Earth Day, though it has been in my thoughts; one can only quote Mary Oliver so many times. *g*
Then William Harryman gave me the perfect image, with a modicum of words: This is our Earth.
I can also quote Julian of Norwich: “And he showed me a [...]

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The sound of the Wheel turning

Posted in Nature Awareness, Wheel of the Year, tagged , on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been raining for months, it seems–not so, of course, but it’s been overcast for much of the past week, with rain coming in on Monday night.  Still, as I plodded to the bus stop yesterday, I felt it–the shift.  Only two weeks till Beltaine, and the energies are changing.  It’s like listening to a [...]

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The voice of the turtle

Posted in AODA, Druidry, Wheel of the Year, tagged , , on February 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I heard the cooing of a mourning dove while walking to work today, for the first time in months. It’s one of my favorite sounds, hollow yet intimate, distant even if it’s right outside your bedroom window. The voice of the turtle is heard in our land, as it says in the Song of [...]

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For Imbolc

Posted in Music and Musicians, Wheel of the Year, tagged , , , , on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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When the fire is lighted

Posted in Wheel of the Year, tagged , , , , , on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Wheel of the Year, with its eight holy days, is a Neopagan invention.  I know that, but as I’ve said before, I think it’s so widely accepted because it actually works; the eight holy days correspond to real changes in weather, plant and animal behavior, and the energies of earth and heaven, the land [...]

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