Repost: What’s It Worth To You?
If you are never late for work, yet never on time at an Open Circle?
If you always try to keep your promises, but feel justified in not showing up to help out at Pagan Pride Day like you said you would?
If you will go out of your way to buy that expensive latte at your favorite coffee shop, but never make an appearance at the local Pagan Coffee Meet & Greet?
If you donate to the food bank through work every year at Christmas, but somehow never remember to bring a can of beans when the local Pagan clergy are collecting for that same food bank or for Pagans going through hard times?
If you spend a fortune on cheap beer and yet have never bought a jug of mead from your local Heathen brewer?
If you always mean to do this or that ritual, but never get around to it for any real reason?
If you’ll spend $200 and a weekend drinking with your buddies, but never show up for Pagan Pub Night?
If you go to the pharmacy and buy up all the bottles labeled “herbal” but have never been to the actual herbalist in town?… Continue reading
The Square Peg
I have often thought that
If only I had been born into a tribal society
I would have been given a costume and drum
A place and role in society
And happily spent my life as a shaman serving my community
Instead I am stuck working retail
Moving through Western society as awkwardly
As a square peg jammed into a round hole
And practicing my spirituality behind closed doors
What a Flagger Does for a Living … and Dies For
I wrote this one years ago, but I still bring it out every spring when the roads open up and the construction season begins and since the Olympics are just around the corner in my hometown, and that means a lot of traffic and frustrated people. I thought I’d share it now.
My mother is a Traffic Control Person, also known as a flagger. You know, one of those people in the orange or yellow vest who stop you at construction sites.
Many people hate to see a flagger with a stop or slow sign in their hand step in front of their vehicle. After all, you don’t want to be 2 minutes late to get wherever you are going. Its such a pain in the butt to have to wait a few minutes, or to slow down when traveling through a construction zone. Many people tell my Mother that her job could be replaced by a bucket of sand, just stick the sign in that; who needs some person telling them how to drive?
The purpose of my Mothers job is very clear to her, even if you may not understand it. Her job is to protect the lives… Continue reading
Annoyed
I am growing tired of wishy-washy Pagan speak:
Well, that is your opinion, this is my opinion.
But opinions don’t really matter, because everyone is different.
Unless you place value on other people’s opinions, that is.
Neither of us is right and neither of us is wrong for anyone but ourselves.
I however do not judge, I simply perceive for my reality is perception.
So just do whatever feels right for you, but only if you want to.
Let each walk their own path.
You may choose to walk with them or not, as that is your own choice.
You choose how things make you feel
No one needs to claim responsibility for their own actions.
Unless they are choosing how to feel, of course.
URGH!
Do people really buy in to this stupid New Age clap trap?
Repost: Instinct vs Research
This one is on Witchvox this week and is host to a number of typos, I’m not sure how they got there. I must need a proof reader or something. So here is a cleaner version for y’all:
“This is what happens when you dabble! You can’t practice the Craft while you are looking down your nose at it.” ~ The Aunts from Practical Magic
So why do I have to do all this required reading and research? Isn’t that work? Its so time consuming and the books are hard to read! Why can’t we simply practice solely based upon our instincts and natural talents?
Instinct is only one part of the equation.
Imagine that your spiritual practice was a house. Now, try to build that without blueprints, without a plan, without the knowledge of how to properly the use a nail-gun and electric drill. You could probably build yourself and nice little shanty but it’s probably not going to keep you very warm come winter time. It is also certainly not the four bedroom post and beam home you had hoped for either.
It’s all about balance. It is alright if your spiritual path leans more on the instinctive… Continue reading
To Fly By Night
Hoofprints in the Wildwood
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