Posted in Spirituality, tagged ADF, Alcohol, Ancient Order of Druids in America, AODA, Apples, Autumn, Celebration, Celtic New Year, Ceres, Creativity, Cross-Quarter Days, Death, Druidry, Earth, Eleusinian Mysteries, Fall, Geocities, God, Goddess, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hades, Halloween, Harvest, Hellenic Polytheism, Immortality, Initiation, Internet, Jaegermeister, Life, Liturgy, Marriage, Motherhood, Mystery Religion, Mystery Rite, Myth, Mythology, Nature, Neopaganism, New Eleusinian Mysteries, New Year, Paganism, Persephone, Plants, Pluto, Polytheism, Prayer, Proserpine, Religion, Rite, Ritual, Samhain, Samhainn, Samhuinn, Spirituality, Spring, Sunday, Theism, Underworld, Wheel of the Year, Winter on October 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
I have decided to celebrate Samhainn–opening my year as a Druid Apprentice–with a rite honoring Demeter, Persephone, and Hades. It seems appropriate since not only is Samhainn traditionally a time to celebrate the dead, when the gates of the underworlds are thrown open and the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the [...]
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Posted in Farming, Spirituality, tagged Agriculture, Biglaw, Cats, Chicago, Children, Debt, Economics, Family, Farming, Food, Gardening, Instinct, Law, Law School, Marriage, Mental Health, Mini-Farming, Nature, Parenting, Planting, Plants, Rosemary, Sage, Spinach, Spirituality, Urban Homesteading on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other day, my little boy brought me a clay pot that he had planted a seed in awhile ago and he was concerned that nothing had ever grown in it (it had, but unfortunately we have a mischievous cat that likes to pick at and eat young growing things). I realized that we [...]
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Posted in Spirituality, tagged ADF, Ancient Order of Druids in America, AODA, Ár nDraíocht Féin, Commitment, Druidry, Gods, Greek gods, Greek Mythology, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Impiety, Internet, Meso-Paganism, Mesopaganism, Muscle Cars, Mysticism, Nature, Neo-Paganism, Neopaganism, OBOD, Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, Paganism, Piety, Polytheism, Religion, Samhain, Samhainn, Spirituality, Worship on October 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my last post, I hinted cryptically at something new in the works for me, spiritually speaking. The quick and dirty version is that a week from tomorrow my family will celebrate Samhainn and I will, in honor of the new year of the ancient Celts, officially begin my candidate year with the Ancient Order [...]
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Posted in Spirituality, tagged Beauty, Food, Pie, Jesus, Mormonism, Christianity, Poetry, Theology, Internet, Marriage, Paganism, Reconstructionism, Identity, Odin, Halloween, Christmas, Nature, Tradition, Polytheism, Hellenic Polytheism, Dionysus, Demeter, Sex, Unconscious, Neopaganism, Night, New Age, Meditation, Summer, Spring, Fall, Wicca, Neo-Paganism, Worship, Wine, Eclecticism, Sexuality, Fertility, Balance, John Michael Greer, Ritual, Seasons, Celebration, Agriculture, Gardening, Farming, Herbs, Winter, Easter, Holidays, Mind, Wheel of the Year, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Ancestry, Ancestors, Beltaine, Beer, Hades, Dying God, Subconscious, Adolescence, Arthurian Legend, King Arthur, Friendship, Honeysuckle, Autumn, Thanksgiving, Summer Solstice, Solstice, Birth, Flowers, Fruit, Equinox, Cross-Quarter, Rebellion, Feast, Samhain, Lughnasa, Mabon, Yule, Fall Equinox, Spring Equinox, Midsummer, Winter Solstice, Easter Bunny, May, Juniper, Bonfires, Luck, Mead, Cross, Rowan Cross, May Bough, Sun, June, Vigil, Lamb, St. John's Wort, August, Harvest, Dancing, Bread, Cernunnos, Osiris, Arthur, Green Man, Barbecue, September, Wicker Man, Harvest Lord, November, Dead, Rememberance, December, Great Bear, Polaris, Yule Log, Libations, Mistletoe, Holly, Ivy, Holly and Ivy, Childbirth, Purification, Initiation, Candles, Candlemaking, Cheese, Dairy, Water, Easter Eggs, Underworld, Persephone on August 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Back in April when I first started to come out as a Pagan, I mentioned that one of my goals was to figure out some good ways to celebrate the Wheel of the Year. Although my emphasis is typically on the Hellenic gods, and my personal practice draws more from reconstructionism than anywhere else, I [...]
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Posted in Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged Age Of Aquarius, Aquarius, Astrology, Brendan Myers, Counterculture, Crystals, Dreams, Enlightenment, Ethics, Family, Fifth Dimension, Hair, Heritage, History, International Pagan Values Month, Jupiter, Liberalism, Liberation, Morality, Music, Mysticism, Myth, Mythology, Nature, Neo-Paganism, Neopaganism, New Age, Paganism, Peace, Reconstructionism, Revelation, Sixties, Spirituality, The Other Side Of Virtue, Theater, Utopia, Values, Virtue, Visions, Wicca on June 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Note: This is another post for International Pagan Values Month.
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
I have been thinking about the post I wrote yesterday on sources for pagan values, and I have realized (partly because of a conversation that [...]
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Posted in Spirituality, tagged Blogging, Meta, Spirituality, Religion, Christianity, Politics, Episcopal Church, Marriage, Episcopalianism, Culture, Gospel, Jurisprudence, C. S. Lewis, Ethics, Morality, Values, Philosophy, Paganism, Virtues, Nine Noble Virtues, Mythology, Edda, Liberalism, Christmas, Nature, Tradition, Society, Neopaganism, National Guard, Myth, Lore, Neo-Paganism, Bar Exam, Virtue, Military, Brendan Myers, The Other Side Of Virtue, The Abolition Of Man, Anclicanism, Bias, Germanic Reconstructionism, Saga, Civics, Moral Reasoning, Maturity, Pagan Values Month, Stress, International Pagan Values Blogging Month on June 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For those of you who don’t know; June has been deemed International Pagan Values Blogging Month. I’ve been planning a bunch of posts, but June has been pretty busy between military stuff and studying for the bar, so I’m only just now getting around to writing some of them. This is really my [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alaska, Art, Autumn, Battlestar Galactica, Beer, Black Hawk Down, Blogging, C. S. Lewis, Conan, Cthulhu, England, Episcopal Church, Episcopalianism, Family, Film, Ford, Generosity, Goddess, Goya, Heavy Metal, Honeysuckle, Iron Maiden, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, johnny Cash, Knitting, Law, Led Zeppelin, London, Lovecraft, Marriage, Marvel, Movies, Music, Mustang, Mythology, Nature, Pancakes, Pets, Poetry, Religion, Road Warrior, Rock, Rock and Roll, Star Trek, Synesthesia, T. S. Eliot, Tarot, Tattoos, Thanksgiving, Video Games, War Movies, Wolvering, Yarn on June 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Inspired by Katie Langston (her blog is blocked right now so no linky) and my beautiful and sexy wife Katyjane, I am going to compose a list of fifty things I absolutely love.
1. Katyjane
2. Beer
3. Led Zeppelin
4. Jim Morrison (I would lick his torso)
5. Eating pancakes with my three-year old
6. I Walk The Line
7. The [...]
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Posted in Spirituality, tagged Family, Spirituality, Literature, Religion, Mormonism, Poetry, Art, God, Church, Marriage, Conversion, Culture, Missionary, Meaning, Paganism, Heavy Metal, Identity, Gods, Mythology, Norse Mythology, Truth, Thought, Nature, Laziness, Science, Goddess, Sex, Life, Neopaganism, Night, Neo-Paganism, Worship, Parenthood, Sacrament Meeting, Mind, Belteinne, Beltane, Beltaine, Book of Mormon, Mental Health, Mother, Motherhood, Pagan, New Order Mormon, Restoration, Boy Scouts, Camping, Goddesses, Adolescence, Youth, Joseph Campbell, Arthurian Legend, Arthurian Romances, King Arthur, Cosmos, Celtic Myth, Integrity, Weakness, Adulthood, Classical Music, Jean Sibelius, Norse Myth, Ecopsychology, Passion, Reverence on May 27, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I referred to myself as a pagan in conversation with my beautiful and sexy wife a few days ago (we were talking about piddly, meaningless stuff like the meaning of life), and she recognized the significance: it was a casual but meaningful declaration of spiritual identity of the kind that I have not been able [...]
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Posted in Spirituality, tagged Spirituality, Liturgy, God, Paganism, Druidry, Deity, Nature, AODA, Aphrodite, Goddess, Neopaganism, Neo-Paganism, Ancient Order of Druids in America, John Michael Greer, Ritual, Belteinne, Beltane, Beltaine, Parks, Montgomery County, Moon, Full Moon, Exploration, Sanity, Mental Health, Neo-druidry, Ticks, Niwalen, Hawthorn, Katana, Sword, Earth, Holiday on May 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
After I finished with final exams, I was able to take a day for myself and go tromping around the woods. It was a few days after any reasonable dating for the holiday (the full moon was on the 9th, but I wasn’t able to get out and about until the 15th), but it [...]
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Posted in Spirituality, tagged Spirituality, Religion, Poetry, God, Theology, environment, Culture, Faith, Values, Belief, Meaning, Paganism, Druidry, Odin, Mythology, Norse Mythology, Nature, Brahman, Upanishads, Hinduism, India, AODA, Vedanta, Polytheism, Divinity, Zeus, Vishnu, Aphrodite, Neopaganism, Greek Mythology, Maya, Celtic Mythology, Genealogy, Baghavad Gita, Atman, Meditation, Symbol, Metaphor, Neo-Paganism, Eclecticism, Divine, Ancient Order of Druids in America, Revival Druidry, Wheel of the Year, Advaita Vedanta, Ultimate, Self, Krishna, Shiva, Rama, Ancestry, Ancestors, Germanic Mythology, Classical Mythology, Existence, Wisdom, Virtue on April 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I have been giving some thought to theology as of late. I know I think about and talk about religion all the time; that’s not what I mean. What I mean is giving thought to my own theology in a constructive way. Something more than “ZOMG I just don’t know what I [...]
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