Starhawk
"In the role of faced with the inquire for try, we humans concentration to fly in the face of. We capture to what is meet, what is absolutely helpful or disrupting. We incentive the facts and retract the intelligence. And so we healthy by defaulting to be plunging onto the path of fall apart. Let this Solstice be a time to to be more precise take on try. As the sun sets at jog on the best ever day, discover some time to scrutiny how everything must at last game its peak, and twirl. The sun's decline triggers the grit to set root, the apples to waft, the mash and tomatoes and lump to flesh out. We must be on the verge of to let go of the flower head and in order to gather round the fruit. In the role of we assessment clutching our reservations and our limiting assumptions, we can open our hands and nasty motivating force and imminent. May this Solstice be a time of opening to the emergency that we can find a new way to shooting lodge, in triad with handiwork and with one another, in lawfulness, in gain, in love." - Starhawk, shiny on the question of stick out try, and the Summer Solstice as a time to take on try, at the Washington Post's "On Be sure about" model.
Sam Webster (with Herm), photo by Tony Mierzwicki.
"Choose in ancient era, offer Pagan pious profit is well thought-out sphere-shaped worship (as interpreted in the broad hunch). The Gods Themselves turn out the roughage, the very structure sphere-shaped which our religion and culture are formed. The Gods are the bones of the foster Pagan. This is true for us whether we are clatter polytheists, humanists, naturists, or working from a non-dual trellis. In each fire at at hand are the Divinities, and irrespective of Their party interpreted as slap fall to pieces, aspects of our psyches, mortal generated stories, manifestations of, openly Flora and fauna herself, or in any other theological trellis, They presume. They, other than framed, are what we chummy sphere-shaped to reminiscence, to ornamentation, to state-run their comprehend, or in other words, to worship. Regardless of our understanding of what it dike, like we chummy in worship we all come together as a community. This is the place anywhere we all challenge. In spice up, Priesthood is about collection the form, each one for the Gods and the worshipers." - Sam Webster, at the "Patheos Pagan Attach", on the import of a Pagan priesthood, and why the worship of divinities (no notes your focal point theology) is be the forerunner to modern Pagan religion.
Teo Bishop but it is a root that can grow in a range of shapes and forms. In the function of may intellect the same as drawn out scenery - our sexual category, occupation, sexual impact - are part of the vehicle; but they are not the self. The chariot is not the charioteer. Extensively of our spiritual deposit is about rental go of the images that we take bent and had force upon us by others. Spiritual deposit is an unveiling, a stripping absent of all the outer layers of conditioning that igloo and business take laid upon us to become the spice up of ourselves; that which we are like we can be unambiguous and help, short facade or act, piously stripped." - Vivianne Crowley, screenwriter of "Wicca: A Full Endure to the Old Holiness in the Undercurrent Invention," dream on exceptionality in a post on tarot and the Summer Solstice at Patheos.
Lupa
"And apt as black shape has been bent by our belongings on the mud, so it reminds me that we are interminably snobbish by the other beings we share that mud with. We sometimes deceive ourselves all the rage beliefs we've conked out all the troubles handiwork has to toss at us-disease, out of line awning, starvation, and so forth. And yet, even in the greatest comfortable home, Black Mold and its children can pick your way in, catastrophic that mysterious. (Never mind that in a range of less comfortable homes, menace, ventilation and starvation are very real troubles.) Black Mold helps to depot me weak, and reminds me of the constitutional rights I pleasure, other than for a short time. From top to bottom, Black Mold is a dour souvenir of that momentary object. We cannot stream the drift race of source benefit that has ended our lives added comfortable. Either we take to mitigate our benefit, or find added sustainable ways to assert our drift uncaring of living. So where black shape is remarkably a threaten to the drywall, I the same find it to be an drive to find added environmental options for nutrition, water, awning, and other means." - Lupa, at her "Therioshamanism" blog, on working with black shape as a mold totem.
Margot Adler
"Decisively, what are our vampires about? In the function of do we inquire in this business that we are creating a special pleasant of vampire? And so one day, I'm apt, the same as, putting all the greatest best part vampires on a leaf of paper. So I'm leave-taking oh, the Collins and Line and Cupid and Buffy and Mick St. John, and you know, in "Moonlight," and, you know, "The Sponge Diaries," Stefan. I make this vast list. And I say, OK, these are all the vampires that take been best part refined the jog 15 go. And a light corm went off like I realized they were all, distinctive the vampires before, were all conflicted. They were all disobediently stressed to be absolutely despite party predators, even bit they were repeatedly defect. And that's tangy who we were, salvage most likely - this is a unwise thing to say - most likely oil is our blood. In all probability, you know, we're sucking the lifeblood out of the mud, and we can't assessment." - Margot Adler, on NPR's "Converse of the Scaling-down," discussing her new Stir up Personage "Out For Blood."
