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[animamea]

A while back, someone asked for more information on the Wheel of the Year. Being the insufferable Virgo that I am, I made the following spreadsheet based on some scribbly index cards I made for a class I held: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key= ( Read more... )

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[vegdumpling]

i have to be honest with you, i don't really like this story either. i never have because it is all about her nurturing whatever role he is playing at the time and i don't really think that's my job as a woman

[animamea]

My main issue is that if I celebrate the Sabbats purely as nature's cycles instead of the Gods' cycles, I can't celebrate with my coven. If I reject the story of the Wheel altogether, I am rejecting Gardnerian mythology and am no longer Gardnerian. While I do occasionally want to set my covenmates on fire, the fact that I *tell* them of my homicidal urges shows how much I *love* them. I'm just not loving the other stuff quite so much. They're almost definitely not going to go eclectic for me, and I'm not sure how I feel about being Gardnerian. Yay crisis of faith!

And I do use the Sabbats to 'appreciate' my local climate, though I am a paradoxical pagan who does not like the outdoors. I have also felt that the Solstices and Equinoxes were the more important ones, and no one can explain to my satisfaction why they're NOT! ^_^

[vegdumpling]

yeah, i guess the doing my own wheel of the year thing is much easier on a solitary. do you think your coven would be open to including more respresentations of the wheel in addition to garnerian mythology? it would suck to have to give up the closeness you've found there and i honestly don't know anything about gardnerian covens but i hope that maybe some sort of compromise or addition would be okay