Sheesh! December is half over and this is my first post for the month! In my defense, I’ve spent almost a week huddled up in a blanket on the couch. December weather sucks! The last three or four years December has been miserable! I’ve also been wrapped up in neighborhood drama. [Sigh!] The little guy [...]
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Filed under: Christmas, Pagan Values, Prosperity
Samhain in the fall and Beltane in the spring divide the Wheel of the Year into the dark months and the light months. The end of Daylight Savings Time tonight will put us firmly at the beginning of the Black Months. Coincidentally, we have a New Moon this weekend. And the hangover from Tuesday’s election… [...]
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Filed under: Politics, Prosperity, Wheel of the Year
“Avoiding Pagan Dollars“: This weekend Jason at The Wild Hunt is reporting on Christian merchants in Adamstown, PA, who–in these tough economic times–are willing to reject Pagan money. A great many Pagan groups celebrate Pagan Pride Day in September, some time around Mabon, the Fall Equinox. This year on September 12th, Reading (PA) Pagans and [...]
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Filed under: Prosperity
This summer I have been following The Archdruid Report, a blog by John Michael Greer. Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) Greer has been blogging about the end of the Industrial Era and the coming of the Deindustrial Society. Greer is lucid when he talks about economics: Over the last [...]
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Filed under: Prosperity, Urbanism
No question: counting my blessings has become a chore. It’s hard not to descend into satire or parody. In active rebellion, my brain wants to start a curses list as well–and if Pumpkin Head, the alcoholic who lives across the hall, wakes me up tonight for the third time running–well, I am tempted to wish [...]
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Filed under: Blessing, Curses, Prosperity
To keep my mind properly prepped for job-hunting, I have elected to keep a daily blessings journal. Every day for thirty days, I have to write ten things, big or small, that I am grateful for. Reportedly, at the end of 30 days/300 acknowledged blessings, I will be a new person. Now, I know I [...]
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Filed under: Blessing, Prosperity
It’s official, I am unemployed. Work has been hell for the last couple weeks. Right now the inmates have taken control of the asylum and my former coworkers and I are on the outside, going “Well, good luck with that!” I had my panic attacks in February and my heartburn–I haven’t had such heartburn in [...]
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Filed under: Prosperity
In two weeks I am going to be an unemployment statistic. Aside from the usual worries about buying groceries, paying rent, and keeping up with my bills, I am experiencing religious angst. The Bible says “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to [...]
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Filed under: Prosperity