Review: Last Year’s Birthday Reading
So, about a year ago I did a casting and reading for my 30th birthday and shared it with you. I thought that before I do a reading for my 31st birthday, I ought to have a look at last year’s reading and see how accurate it was.
Here we go.
I was concerned that there was nothing in the South. This turned out to be rather true. This past year really wasn’t about passion and fire. It was more practical, getting things done. Not much for adventures. I didn’t get any more worked up about anything than I normally do. I finished some projects, took on a few new things (like the tambourine) … but nothing really, REALLY, lit a fire under me. It was a “put your nose to the grind stone and try to be an adult” kind of year. Boy, I hope next year is a little more interesting.
Acorn and Clear Quartz rolled well away from the cloth and left me wondering why is masculine virility and clarity trying to run away from me? I can’t tell you why, but they have been. The bastards.
Jingle Bell and Tiger… Continue reading
A Few Worthy Reads
So while I stop dragging my feet and start doing some updating of blog and website (program upgrades, adding new links and articles and themes etc) here are a few awesome blogs: (apologies if any of these I may have posted in an older post of the same nature, I never do keep track of these things)
Silent Owl
Under the Ancient Oaks
Van Diemen’s Craft
The Ditzy Druid
Walking the Tides
Hag of Naedre
Howling Hill
Path to Witchstead
The Norse Alchemist
The Hidden Grove
PS: Thanks to everyone who emailed me about the last blog couple of posts *hugs*
Random things that have been on my mind
I need to work with my casting collection more. I require clients. I have been considering offering to do a few castings at the Wild Geek Hang. I’ve never done long distance castings before, that should be interesting.
I have also been looking for an additional piece, something to represent kids, children, childhood, the inner child etc … maybe a brightly colored bead?
I am also interested in trying casting into a wooden bowl and reading from the top down. But since I have a new cloth I am still working with, this will have to wait.
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There are creeps and then there are creeps.
There are men who aren’t skilled socially, the kind of guys you have to draw firm and obvious boundaries with. Sometimes you gotta say “no” loud and clear. Usually they don’t mean harm, they are just either clueless or the kind of guys who push their luck.
I understand *intellectually* that many women find men who are “social retards” to be creepy. But honestly, I don’t get it. Is it that they can’t defend their own boundaries; can they not say “no”? Do they not know how to shield? Do they… Continue reading
The Devotional
The book is out dears!
“Hoofprins in the Wildwood: A devotional for the Horned Lord”
You can buy it from Lulu
or
This is put out by an independent Pagan/Heathen publisher, so you’re not going to find it on amazon or at the big chain stores. You might be able to order it through your local Pagan bookstore.
I received a free PDF copy as a contributor and its pretty awesome.
Contents Include:
Cover Artwork Lord of Beasts: by Sarah Lawless
The Charge of the Hunter (Prose) by Daven
Gwynn Ap Nudd (Music) by Patrick Harvey
You Dance on the Cave Wall (Poetry) by Michaela Macha
Lughnassad (Poetry) by Peter J. Watts
Cernunnos (Artwork) by Peter J. Watts
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My God (Essay) by Juniper
Buckator (Poetry) By Alex Langstone
Greenman (Artwork) by Peter J. Watts
Cernunnos et Les Dioscures (Prose) by Rebecca Buchanan
Dancing the Hunt (Poetry) by Hernes Own
Herne Rosary (Artwork and prayer) by Alex Volundsdottir
Hail to the Horned One (Poetry) by Herne’s Own
Hymn to Cernunnos I (Prayer/poetry) by Rebecca Buchanan
Hymn to Cernunnos II (Prayer/poetry) by Rebecca Buchanan
Prayer to the Sacrificed King (Essay)… Continue reading
Look! A Press Release!
The Pagan Newswire Collective continues to grow and expand as new local bureaus take root all across the country and group blog projects bring together the experience and expertise of Pagans from a wide variety of traditions and communities to share their insights into subjects from politics to pop culture, and everything in between. The most recent addition to the PNC is No Unsacred Place: Earth and Nature in Pagan Traditions.
No Unsacred Place explores the relationships between religion and science, nature and civilization from a diversity of modern Pagan perspectives. With climate change ever-present in today’s cultural and political discourse, and the realities of ecological destruction increasingly impacting our local communities and daily lives, questions about how we live as members of this jeweled, blue-green planet are no longer merely abstract philosophical musings or theological exercises. While cultures throughout history offer us examples of human beings in relationships of worship, stewardship, domination and exploitation of the Earth, modern Paganism is unique in drawing together the wisdom and ecocentric focus of ancient religions with the insights into the physical world afforded by 
modern science and technology.
No Unsacred Place draws inspiration for its title from the contemporary American poet… Continue reading
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