Posted on April 5th, 2013 by witchsbrew
April 5th is Golden Rule Day. All major religions have some version of the Golden Rule. I have been studying Karen Armstrong’s Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong, and The Great Transformation: The Beginnings of Our Religious Traditions. And I have signed and promote The Charter for Compassion. Compassion not commonly thought [...]
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Filed under: Bookshelf, Compassion, Pagan Values
Posted on December 14th, 2012 by witchsbrew
Though the temperature is well below freezing in this video, -18 degrees C., there’s really no way of knowing what season we’re seeing. There is no snow, so I think this may actually be a spring ceremony–but we can pretend it’s Yule. According to Wikipedia, the Mari El Republic is “located in the eastern part [...]
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Filed under: Friday Video, Ostara, Pagan Values, Wheel of the Year, Yule
Posted on November 30th, 2012 by witchsbrew
I haven’t done a video in a couple of weeks–hell, I haven’t done a real post in ages! But this is just all too true of some people you meet in the New Age community. I’m much too blunt for my own good, I had a good laugh over this one.
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Posted on April 6th, 2012 by witchsbrew
Day 9 of 30 Days of Advocacy Against Witchcraft… I’m a lifelong nerd so this story From Sky News in Australia hits uncomfortably close to home: A 17-year-old high school student has been forced to drop out of her studies and seek refuge in a camp for women accused of witchcraft after fellow students said [...]
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Filed under: Christians, Pagan Values, Witch Hunts
Posted on March 27th, 2012 by witchsbrew
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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Posted on March 22nd, 2012 by witchsbrew
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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Filed under: Christians, Pagan Values, Wheel of the Year
Posted on February 8th, 2012 by witchsbrew
I began this blog in October 2007 in response to Mike Miller’s “Faith & Value” column in the Saturday Journal Star. It was the first thing I read every Saturday, and Mike Miller usually gave me plenty of incentive to talk about Pagan Faith & Values. –Then in one of their cost-cutting sweeps, PJS dropped [...]
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Filed under: City Witch, Pagan Values
Posted on January 8th, 2012 by witchsbrew
I said in my last post that I did not have a bucket list. I had come to the conclusion that I was too gimpy and too poor to ever fulfill a fancy bucket list so I had wiped the whole notion from my mind. I find, however, that my heart is more devious and [...]
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Filed under: Daughters, Hathor, Pagan Values
Posted on July 16th, 2011 by witchsbrew
This is too good for the Friday Video. In the Fall of Gravity A philosophy of life, consciousness and the workings of the universe is explored between the wizard Isomer and his traveling companion Trevor Verity. What unfolds is a moment in time Trevor will not soon forget. Utilizing a unique combination of puppet making [...]
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Posted on July 4th, 2011 by witchsbrew
For me Lady Liberty has always been one face of Hecate, who stands at the crossroads with a torch.
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Filed under: Friday Video, Pagan Values, Politics
