Bardic Circle
Horned God Devotional
We got a sneak peek at the Table of Contents for the Devotional today! Check it out here.
To wet your appetite and make you run out to buy it when it comes out, here is (a slightly different version of) the essay I contributed. There’s also a photo, a ritual and a poem of mine in the Devotional. I had started a “Very Brief History Of” but it got a little long and out of hand and then life got in the way. I am still working on that piece though, off and on. Someday I might just finish it! Anyways … I’m sure the Devotional will be amazing, just look at the contributors! I can’t wait!
I lay scattered in the abyss
Surrounded by a bleak
And terrifying nothingness
The creatures I had trusted
Who naively I had followed
Have torn me apart
And left me in a mess
The shock and horror
Their betrayal
The pain of my dismemberment
Fills my being and all that I am
And then suddenly is forgotten
As I begin to contemplate the blackness
And the fact that though torn asunder
I am still capable of self and thought
I realize that… Continue reading →
Waiting Underground
by patti smith, oliver ray
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if you believe all your hope is gone
down the drain of your humankind
the time has arrived
you’ll be waiting here as I was
in a snow-white shroud
waiting underground
there by the ridge be a gathering beneath the pilgrim moon
where we shall await the beat of your feet hammering the earth
where the great ones tremble
in their snow-white shrouds
waiting underground
if you seek the kingdom come, come along
waiting by the ridge there’ll be a gathering
beneath the pilgrim moon
where the railroad thunders
oh where we shall await the beat of your feet hammering the earth
and as the earth resounds where the great ones tremble
and your humankind becomes as one
and then we will arise
in our snow-white shrouds
when we’ll be as one
but until that day we will just await
in our snow-white shrouds
waiting underground
in our snow-white shrouds
waiting underground
copyright © druse music, inc./yam gruel music 1997
Attack of the Podcasts!
While you wait for me to finish editing the next episode of Standing Stone and Garden Gate, please enjoy these recommended episodes of other podcasts:
First up, over at The Infinite and Beyond, Chris interviews Lon Milo DuQuette about Low Magick and much more.
Then head over to New World Witchery for fun winter traditions and to meet Cory’s wife, yay! Stick around for some more Yule Tide cheer.
Then Witch Talk Radio interviews Peter Paddon of the Crooked Path and Pendraig Publishing fame.
Repost: I am Not a Real Witch
I am not a real witch
I am not a proper pagan
No, not even
When I rise with the dawn
And greet signing birds
And walk my hounds upon the mountainside
I am not a real witch
I am not a proper pagan
Not even when I speak to the land
Not even when I listen to the wind
Nor when I watch the Sun cross southern skies
And mark the Moon’s fall and rise
I am not a real witch
I am not a proper pagan
No, not even when I praise the thunder
Or dance with the ebb and flow
Of many tides
I am not a real witch
I am not a proper pagan
Not when spirits follow my steps
Through summer woodlands
Or brush my heels on moonlit trails
I am not a real witch
I am not a proper pagan
Not even when gods answer my call
For I have answered theirs
Not when I farm my land
Or lend an animal a helping hand
I am not a real witch
I am not a proper pagan
You see
Because I have no initiation to speak of
No puppy papers to prove my lineage… Continue reading →
The Dance
As above, so below
Cernunnos at my right hand
Herne at my left
A goat foot god
Lights the fire within
And so I dance the frenzied dance
In an imperfect circle formed in trance
I spin like a top
I blaze like the sun
I wheel as the stars above my head
Dizzy, thirsty, hungry, horny
Ah, my twisted love
What agony and ecstasy you bring
That if ever snatched away from me
I should never want to breathe again
(stay tuned for updates & info on the Horned God devotional anthology I have submitted works to … which reminds me, GET BACK TO WORK!)
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