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February 18, 2010
- Part 1Pagans aren't pagan.It's as impossible to list every pagan path as it is to list every Christian path. So help me I'm going to try, just to give an idea of how many there are. I'm not going to Google it, this is all off the top of my head.Eclectic, Norse, Celtic, Celtic Shamanism, Shamanism, Native American Spirituality, Gardnerian, Thelemic, Quabbalistic, Dianic, Wicca, Discordianism, ...
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February 18, 2010
- I have studied religion ever since I converted to paganism when I was thirteen. Before that I was Lutheran, a religion that left me with questions that the pastor could not answer. In the Book of Luther, each section begins with the words "We should both fear and love God." My only question was how could you hold both fear and love for the same thing? The real answer was in the ...
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February 4, 2010
- In Celtic myth, Brighid is one of the most ancient goddesses known and revered in many European countries. Even today in Ireland, Spain, Scotland, Wales, Britain, and France, honor and devotion is rendered to her principles and culminated in the celebration of Imbolc, a symbolic festival signifying the beginning of a new year. Commonly celebrated on February 1st or 2nd, Imbolc is associated with ...
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February 1, 2010
- An ebook of my columns from the esteemed print journal The Beltane Papers from 2002 to 2007 has just been published in multiple formats via smashwords.com. Titled Goddess Spirituality at the Crossroads and other columns, you can find it at smashwords.com/books/view/8990 Among the columns: Goddess as Flow, Naming Ourselves, Do We Create Our Own Reality? Psychic Gifts, Death Reminds Us, Who ...
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November 6, 2009
- Born in Tahiti, Pele is the Hawaiin Goddess of fire, lightning, volcanoes, dance, and violence. Landing first at Ni'ihau, then Kauai, Pele moved down the chain of islands in order of their geological formation, eventually landing on the Big Island's Mauna Loa. As a word in the Hawaiian language her name, pele, means molten lava. She is not, therefore, a spirit who lives in the molten lava, she is ...
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May 10, 2009
- In a secret garden beyond the dominion of such five senses,falling snow blossoms in mid air,to firebirds of paradise taking flight before dampening new furrowed earth. Mother of all creation blackness begets heavensuckled on the vast milk of constellations. With involuntary breath comes the push of life inside the silken shrouds of the most enduring cocoon. Iced fireflies caught ...
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December 16, 2008
- The Goddess Prophecies: The Cup of Immortality is being heralded as the next Chronicles of Narnia, but it can also be compared to Lord of the Rings. Its an epic fantasy with 20 years of study and research behind the making of this novel. Author D.R. Whitney is an Arthurian scholar and has studied in the US and the UK. Her new novel, The Goddess Prophecies is published by Crescent Moon Press. ...
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October 29, 2008
- Reflections on The Secret Life of Bees by Ananda LeekeCopyright 2008 by Madelyn C. LeekeExcerpt from That Which Awakens Me (Winter 2009)This weekend I went to Houston to attend my cousin Chester's wedding. I stayed with my sorority sister Pam and her husband Vinson. When Pam picked me up from the airport on Friday night, we talked about how excited we were to see such a strong female cast in The ...
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