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Regarding Pagan Clergy
* First of all we don’t need to follow a monotheist model of clergy. If you should shudder at the thought of people having the authority to dictate the desires of the gods to you, then you need to study some other spiritual traditions. Not every religion now, or in history, has/had such a set up. In many traditions, including ancient Pagan ones, clergy were facilitators, teachers and sometime guides or counsellors but not some middle man between ourselves and the divine with enough authority to molest little boys and get away with it.
A great model to consider is that of ancient Rome (and this coming form a Celt!) where the clergy were in charge of temples and larger civic shrines, they made sure the correct offerings (okay sacrifices) were given on the right days, they did the big public rituals and things of that nature, but everyone had a house altar and they all got to talk to the gods, do their own family rituals, give offerings and work with deity as they saw fit.
So before you get up in arms over the thought of Pagan Clergy, make sure you are not having a knee jerk reaction… Continue reading
A Little Reading for Thanksgiving
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving folks! Here’s a few worthy blog posts & articles:
What is Neo-Pagan Clergy?
Travelling
Quick Compost
An Essential Witchcraft Tradition
The Importance of Grassroots Heathenry
Is Hedge Craft The New Wicca?
Compass Round or Ring of Art
An Introduction to Animism
The Twenty-First Century Blood Feud
September’s Hearth
Building Your Inner Sacred Space
Misconceptions
A friend and I were chatting online about how we perceive people and how people perceive us. You know, you meet someone and as you get to know them you realise they are a very different person that you first thought they were, that kind of stuff. We are all guilty of it sometimes even when we make the effort not to. So here are a few things I find people often assume about me that are not quite right.
I’m not as bossy as you think I am.
Yes, I am fairly outgoing, strong willed and outspoken but that doesn’t mean I need to have my own way. People often assume that if you are a larger than life personality then you must be the kind of person who needs to be in charge. I know my limitations and I lack many important leadership qualities such as organization and excellent social skills, I don’t want to be the leader most of the time. I’ll do it though since most other women (and many men) just sit there looking at the floor like “I don’t know, what you want to do?” UGH! But seriously folks, you can say “no” to… Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday: Crow Fetish
(I was going to shoot these outdoors amongst all the pretty fallen leaves but then it started raining buckets. Click on each image for full size or click on the View with Piclens for fancy slideshow)
- Wordless Wednesday: Ask the Stones Admin
- Swimming the Sunlight Alison Leigh Lilly
- Nature Worshipers and Northern Pass Howling Hill
To Fly By Night
Hoofprints in the Wildwood
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