Pagan Values: Catch Phrases
So June is Pagan Values Blogging Month or some such thing, and since you can’t rock the boat if you aren’t on it, I decided to join in.
The first thing I noticed reading all these blog posts, is a plethora of catch phrases and key words. Pagan values as pop culture?
Next will we be using words like “synergy” and (shudder) “proactive”? You know, to quote the Simpson’s: “Those words stupid people use to make themselves sound smart” ?
Anyways …
Can ethics and values really be boiled down to a simple list of words like “Industriousness”, “Loyalty”, or “Harm None”? Is the human animal really that simple?
How many of us, when faced with an important decision or a difficult time in our lives found a easy solution based on a single, simple, catch phrase?
“What would Goddess/God/Great Spirit do?”
Actually before I attack such things, I ought to point out that a mangled version of that good ol’ Rede helped me quit smoking about 6 and a half years ago. But that’s all it was, a mantra, a reminder of a decision I had made, not the decision or the decision process itself. It was an affirmation… Continue reading
Home Again
Well, I am home at last and enjoying my recovery from a lot of driving. I had a wonderful time at the Druid Gathering, and promise to do some proper blogging about it after I get one more nights sleep.
Okay I lied, it will be a day or two, but it takes forever to upload pics on dialup!
Cheers!
Father’s Day
All weekend, half the people I encountered thought Father’s Day was the 14th, while others thought it was next weekend (its next weekend, but I left a “Just saying hi” message on Dad’s phone anyways)
Isn’t it interesting that people always know when it’s Mother’s day, but not Father’s Day?
Henceforth, June is Pagan Values & Virtues Month
“In June the sun is at it’s height in the Northern Hemisphere and nearly hidden from view in the Southern Hemisphere. Midsummer and Yule, festivals of fire and of light.
Let us then use our hearts and minds and words, invoking the fires of inspiration; let us write of the virtues and ethics and morals and values we have found in our Pagan paths, let us share how we carry these precious things forward in our own lives and out into the world.
Join me, in the month of June 2009 in writing about Pagan values.”
The abouve quote come from Pax, over at Chrysalis
Lots of folk have answered the challenge, so go to his site and check out all the links folks have posted.
To begin my contribution I will link you to two articles I wrote along these lines last month, and promise a fresh one to come.
Dancing With the Ancestors & “Not I”, Said the Witch
There is something of a discussion on the subject going on at the Hedge’s forum so check that out as well.
A tidbit of mine that came from that thread:
“What matters? What is necessary?
For myself, it… Continue reading
Alberta Bound
Dizzy and I did the interview but her instructor wants to grade it before its posted.
I am heading off to Alberta for the Spirit of the West this weekend.
I was going to take lots of great pics of the land (Misty Acres) and blog about different ideas for how the pagan community could put it to good use, but it rainned all weekend! Oh well.
For now, its not the kind of land you could hold large gatherings, but a couple of Covens, or Groves or Kindred, or just a couple of folks its got potential.
So start thinking out side the box and brainstorming while I`m away guys. (FYI, think mountainside, West-Kootenays Boundary) …
To Fly By Night
Hoofprints in the Wildwood
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