When I decided to participate in the Witches and Witchcraft Reading Challenge, I ran around the apartment picking up witchy books. Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, was not in my reading pile. I picked up Ceremony, classic contemporary fiction set in the American Southwest, in February at Forest Park Nature Center’s book sale along with [...]
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It’s that time again. Next Thursday is the beginning of 30 Days of Advocacy against Witch-Hunts, March 29-April 27. This will be my third year participating. The violence is still continuing against women, children, and some men–most, but not all, in Africa. So let’s kick off this year’s campaign with “Waking the Witch” by Kate [...]
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It’s Spring. Most Wiccans refer to the Spring Equinox as Ostara, for a Germanic Goddess of fertility and new growth. Many Wiccans worship the triple aspect of the Great Goddess: Maiden, Mother, and Crone. At the Spring Turning the Maiden conceives and becomes the Mother; in nine months she gives birth to the returning sun [...]
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Cold or virus? I don’t care. I’m fighting something. So, here for the Friday Video is “Eight of Swords” by Huntress> You go, girl!
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I’ve been blogging here almost four and a half years. When I started out, I was using the very plain blue theme. I spent several days looking at available WP themes and after a few weeks of blogging, I went with a grey concrete streetscape with autumn leaves blowing in the gutter. It was November, [...]
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My first book for the Witches and Witchcraft Reading Challenge is a “near future” science fiction novel, Omega by Stewart Farrar. According to Wikipedia, Farrar, an English journalist, screenwriter, and author of genre fiction, was initiated into Alexandrian Wicca in 1970. In 1971, he wrote one of the first books on Wicca, What Witches Do. [...]
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I didn’t pay much attention when Kirk Cameron made anti-gay remarks last week. After all, he’s a sad dweeb who used to be on a popular TV show–or that’s what I hear. I never watched “Growing Pains.” I didn’t pay much attention when he defended himself this week: “I should be able to express moral [...]
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Alas, the “Voices of Faith” blog on the Journal Star website is not as inspiring as I had hoped. Right now there are a lot of “voices” who are not addressing anything relative to my faith. So I have decided to take up at reading challenge to get my blogging juices flowing. At the end [...]
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