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The Sceptical Witch: Why believing is not believing everything
Skeptics make the best wizards.
Starhawk
People tend to think that if you believe in certain things you will believe in everything. It's like you have no discerning spirit; if you believe in tarot you must believe in aliens, haunted houses, spiritualism and Elvis being alive ( Read more... ) -
Sorry about my silence
I know i haven't updated in along time, but it is because my other blog and its tarot parlour are haiving incredible success and absorbing my (scarce) free time. I'm already meditating a post for Litha and will be back soon! Thanks for your understanding!! -
Yes , I am a Pagan-but not that kind: Paganism and Nazis
One of the many topics we pagans have thrown at us is the identification of Paganism with Nazi ideology. This may come as a surprise to you, but the fascination of Hitler for esoteric issues, his use and abuse of Pagan and esoteric symbology (The swastika, which was an innocent enough Eastern symbol of good luck before the hate and barbarism of ( Read more... ) -
Girl in a Bubble:Everybody lies because lies feel good (Beltane Stories, Part Two)
Dr. Cameron: What happened to "everybody lies"?
House MD: I was lying.
OK , OK, maybe I'm indulging a bit too much in autobiography, but Beltane this year brings me back to Beltane two years ago. Ah, you should have seen me at that time. I had just finished a successful diet, I was falling in love with someone I looked up to, I had a very good ( Read more... ) -
Can't Hold Us Down: Witches are not Whores (Beltane Stories, Part 1)
So what am I not supposed to say what I'm saying ( Read more... ) -
Our Lord/Lady of Causality: A Christian view many pagans could learn from
Most Wiccans see enough magic in their everyday lives
(the birth of a child, the bursting out of tree leaf buds, a beautiful sunset)
and they don't need to use spells to become more attractive,
richer, more powerful and so on.
-Lucy Summers, Book of Wicca (re-translated from Spanish edition)
This is an issue I have talked about before, but ( Read more... ) -
Because I am a Queen: Surviving the Stereotypes
I'm not the average girl on your video
and I ain't built like a supermodel
but I learned to love myself unconditionally
because I am a Queen.
Am I less of a lady if I don't wear pantyhose?
My mama said a lady ain't what she wears but what she knows...
("Video", India Arie)
In these days of Extreme Makeover and what not, it took a very stupid thing ( Read more... ) -
Are you scared to get happy?-Ostara, not just birds and flowers
- "April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull routes with spring rain."
T. S. Eliot- Yesterday, I received a care2.com newsletter with this wonderful link about spring and Ostara included. It had a very interesting part about how Easter invites us to renewal and action, headed by the TS
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Buttprints in the Sand: What Paganism is really about.
Many people ask me what benefits do I get from being a Pagan, if "my gods" give me all I ask for, if magic is a way to power. Others directly accuse me of having a delusional religion, which makes me believe I can achieve anything with magick, or of being in it just to cast spells and ask for things ( Read more... )
