From Circle Military Support: Military Pagan Blessing Powers of the Ancient Ways, In this place far from my home and my family, I honor you and call upon you. Powers of Earth, Strengthen my physical body and the bodies of my peers and commanders. Powers of Air, Keep me vigilant at my post, [...]
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Isaac Bonewits, Pagan teacher, Druid elder, and author/artist/ musician/graphic designer, has been battling colon cancer for many months. He has been through several rounds of chemotherapy, but the cancer is not responding. His wife Phaedra used to own Explorations, a New Age store on Bourland across from the Campus Town shopping Center. Reportedly, Isaac’s doctor [...]
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Circle Sanctuary provides Counseling help for Pagans stressed by the Fort Hood Tragedy A team of Pagan spiritual counselors has been formed by Circle Sanctuary to provide free telephone counseling support this month for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, Pantheists, and other Nature religion practitioners distressed by the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas this past [...]
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One more post for Veterans Day. Here is a link to photographs of seven new tombstones with the recently approved pentacle:dedicated this year to the memory of veterans and their spouses. Each stone is a testament to service to this country, and each stone is a chapter in the Pentacle Quest. Each veteran is worthy [...]
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No one knows exactly how many Pagans are serving in the military. Like cats, Pagans disdain most attempts to organize or enumerate them. In 2005-2006 the Covenant of the Goddess, one of oldest and largest of the Wiccan organizations, conducted a poll of U.S. and Canadian Pagans. Of the 5000+ Pagans who responded, 6% indicated [...]
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Sunday is Veterans Day. September 2, the Journal Star carried a news story about President George apologizing for snubbing Rebecca Stewart, a Nevada Wiccan who was left out of a presidential meeting with relatives of combat victims. Bush was in Nevada for an American Legion Convention. Why was she snubbed? Because she had successfully filed [...]
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